About Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is a private deemed-to-be-university based in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. The multi-campus, multi-disciplinary university currently has 6 campuses with 15 constituent schools across Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. It offers a total of 207 undergraduate, postgraduate, integrated-degree, dual-degree, doctoral, and certification programs in Engineering, Medicine, Business, Arts & Sciences, Biotechnology, Mass Communication and Social Work. The university was founded with the opening of Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore in 1994 by Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, and is managed by her international humanitarian organisation Mata Amritanandamayi Math. In 2003, it became one of the youngest institutes to be deemed a university, when it was conferred this status by the UGC.
The university has been accredited by NAAC with A grade in 2009, and has been ranked 8th among the Indian universities by NIRF in 2019. It continuously collaborates with top American & European universities including Ivy league universities for regular student exchange programs, and has been emerging as one of the top ranked private university in India, according to the QS World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education Rankings.