Amrita Vishwa Vidyappeetham (AMRITA), accredited with A Grade by NAAC, celebrates the first decade of service to the society and humanity. Under the inspiring and motivating leadership of the Divine Mother Mata Amritanandamayi Devi as chancellor, AMRITA is marching forward towards higher goals and accomplishments and scaling great heights of excellence. AMRITA was conferred the status of a institution under “Section 3 of UGC Act 1956” by the Government of India in 2003. The institution is spread over five campuses at Amritapuri, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Kochi and Mysore in three different states. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham offers over 150 undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in twenty disciplines including Engineering, Management and Medicine. It has a student population around seventeen thousand and a faculty strength of two thousand.
The research activities at AMRITA are directed towards societal, humanitarian and community development and relief. Many centers of excellence have been started in cutting-edge areas with the support of major national laboratories, industry leaders and agencies.
AMRITA has also bagged or filed fifty major patents and inventions in the past few years. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in 2005 with various US universities, some of which are ranked among the best universities in the world and has active tie-ups and collaborations with over 75 universities in USA, Europe, Australia, Japan etc. All these have made AMRITA one of the most sought after institution by top ranking students from all parts of the country and aboard.
