On her way to the Coimbatore ashram for a 2-day Brahmasthanam program, Amma stopped for a few hours at the institution campus located less than an hour away.

Over 2500 students from all 5 campuses of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham received their degrees today, at the 5th Convocation of Amrita. Nearly 50% of the students were women. About 60% received bachelors degrees, and the rest were awarded masters and doctoral degrees. The institution also awarded several MS (Research) degrees.

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham becomes an active partner to the European Union initiative, The Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation program.

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU-Wien) is the largest university in Europe for business administration and economics. Known also as the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, it has been home to Dr. Biresh Sahoo from the Amrita School of Business for nearly nine months now.

Megha Agarwal from the Amrita School of Business became the only Indian delegate at a Market Research Conference held in Singapore earlier this year. The conference was organized by ESOMAR, the European Society for Market Research.