SRM University : An Overview

Here are some of the key features of SRM University:

SRM University has over 38,000 students and over 2600 faculty across all the campus, it is one of the top ranking universities in India. Currently, it is offering a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs in Engineering, Management, Medicine and Health sciences, and Science and Humanities.

1. University has a diverse range of students and around 80% of the students come from countries like Europe, China and other countries as well as from outside Tamil Nadu.
2. Over 150 students are sponsored to 35 foreign universities like MIT, Carnegie Mellon, UC Davis, Warwick and Western Australia in year 2008-09.
3. There are around 50 members from top universities across the world including MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cambridge and NUS who have helped in setting the Global Standards.
4. SRM University is accredited by NAAC with 'A' Grade in the year 2013. It has been placed in A category by Ministry of Human Resource and Development.
5. SRM university has over 600 acres of large campus with a variety of facilities, State-of-the-art labs, libraries, Wi-Fi, knowledge centre, 4000 capacity AC auditorium, 100 online smart classrooms, Hostels with premium facilities, endless convenience on campus including ATM's, bookstores, dining options, cafeterias, prayer halls, gym and more.
6. Top salary US $200,000 was offered to NANO Researcher Mr. Shivaraman at California, USA. Along with this it the university has almost 100% placement of students currently studying: Some of the top recruiters of the university are TCS, Wipro, Cognizant, Infosys, Siemens, IBM etc.
7. It has one of feature of On-the-spot sanction of bank educational loans during counseling.
8. Student aid is also provide in form of Scholarships, the scholraship available for students are as folows:

• Provision of Fee waiver of 50% to students with above 95% in CBSE or in State Board examinations.
• Founder's Scholarship-full waiver on tuition, books, hostels and mess, plus stipend of Rs.1, 000 per month to top state, SRMEEE, JEE and AIEEE rankers, sports persons and socio-economic disdained.

Besides all these key features, university has diverse culture and student’s involved in various fest and cultural activities.

Urmila is Post graduate in management. She writes about Indian Colleges, universities, exams and other prevalent issues.