About Amrita University

Amrita Vishwa Vidyappeetham, earlier known as Amrita Institutions, is inspired and blessed by the Divine Mother Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Satguru to millions of Her devotees living across the world. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is the youngest among institutions to be conferred the status of a University (under section 3 of UGC Act.) and with multiti-campus and multi-discipline character in India. The University is located in a serene village on the foothills of Western Ghats at Ettimadai, which is 20km away from Coimbatore.

The management is committed in creating and sustaining an ambience in the campus that is most conducive to learning, an ambience that will facilitate full blossoming of the innate potential of the students and development of their personality. The multi-disciplinary character of the University facilitates synergy among different disciplines, enabling each to derive maximum benefit from the expertise of others, and successfully carry forward its programmes in the shortest possible time with efficiency and economy. All these have made Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (AMRITA) one of the most sought after University by top ranking students from all parts of the country and abroad. AMRITA has distinguished itself as a dynamic University well on its way to becoming a world class institution of higher learning in several disciplines.

Campuses

The University currently has five campuses at Amritapuri, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Kochi and Mysore. The University offers education in fifteen disciplines including engineering, management & medicine to its Eight thousand students through a group of five hundred dedicated faulty members.

A virtual campus

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has the unique distinction of being the nation’s first of its kind - fully interactive, multi-disciplinary, multi-media, virtual campus without geographical limitations, linking all its campuses. The satellite network has facilitated leading experts from around the world to have live academic interaction from a single centre in India to students, academicians and researchers at other campuses across the country.