Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is the only university from India to be featured in the Times Higher Education Millennial Universities list. Overall, 36 universities from 23 countries featured in the Millenial list.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham's AmritaCREATE (Amrita Center for Research in Advanced Technologies for Education) was selected to be one of five finalist teams for the $7M Barbara Bush Foundation's Adult Literacy XPRIZE in an awards ceremony on June 25, 2018, in New Orleans.
A team of six third-year students from the School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus, named 'Cyber Sena', won the top award at the Smart India Hackathon 2018, for developing a secure system for the Ministry of Defence, Government of India.
The 19-year-old patient from Jharkhand, leading an isolated life for the last ten years, underwent 14-hour surgery at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi. Surgeons reconstructed his upper jaw using his leg bone. This is the largest ever reported upper jaw tumor of its kind. The hospital performed the surgery free of cost.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus and Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Center, Kochi, were presented with the Excellence awards by the Honorable Chief Minister of Kerala, Shri. Pinarayi Vijayan, at the World Environment Day celebrations held at the Mascot Hotel, Trivandrum, on June 7, 2018.