Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was conferred the “Deemed to be University” status under “Section 3 of UGC Act 1956” by the Government of India in 2003. When it was conferred the university status, it was the first to have a multi-disciplinary, multi-campus at the outset.
With 10 campuses at Coimbatore, Amritapuri, Kochi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mysore, Faridabad, Amaravati, Haridwar, and Nagercoil, Amrita University is emerging as one of the fastest growing institutions of higher learning in the country.
The university, which is managed by Mata Amritanandamayi Math, offers over 300+ undergraduates, postgraduate and doctoral programs in Engineering, Business, Computing, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Journalism, Biotechnology, Information Technology, Arts and Sciences, Humanities, Health Sciences, Education, Microbiology, Hospital Management, Visual Media Studies, Law, Mass Communication, Architecture, Social Work, Nanosciences, Ayurveda, Agriculture, philosophy and culture.
Sadguru Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (AMMA), one of the foremost humanitarian leaders in the world today, is the Chancellor of the University.
The Faridabad campus of AMRITA, which came up in 2022 at Faridabad also houses the largest hospital in Asia, 2600-bedded Amrita hospital, which was inaugurated by Honorable Prime Minister of India in August 2022.
As outlined by the Chancellor, AMMA, the vision of AMRITA rests on three pillars namely:
Amrita is ranked as 8th best university in India in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranking of Ministry of Education, Government of India published in 2025. Amrita has been ranked one of the top universities in India consistently for the last 9 years in the NIRF rankings
Based on the evaluation of all the campuses and programs by a peer review committee in 2021, the University has been re-accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with ‘A++’ grade with a CGPA of 3.7 for all its campuses and programs in the 3rd cycle.
The Times Higher Education (THE) Sustainability Impact Rankings are the only global indicators to assess universities’ progress towards the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In its 2026 assessment, THE has ranked AMRITA 37th in the world. This ranking is based on evaluation of 1600+ universities across 116 countries based on their contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). . In its 2025 assessment, THE has rated Amrita 1st in India and 41st in the world.
AMRITA started off in November 1994, as a School of Engineering in an obscure village called Ettimadai, at the foothills of Bouluvanpatty ranges of the Western Ghats in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, with 120 students and 13 faculty members.
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Academic Programs
Research is a very significant activity in our university. Many centres of excellence have been started in cutting-edge areas like Nanosciences, Biomedical Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Molecular Medicine, Wireless Sensor Networks, Computational Engineering & Networking, Cyber Security, Biostatistics, Cancer, Automotive technologies, green materials etc. with the support of major national laboratories, industry leaders and agencies like TIFAC, DST, ICMR, ISRO, DRDO, DBT, DIT, DRDO, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Media Lab Asia, Infosys, MDS Pharma, Biocon etc.
AMRITA is also a partner in the Ministry of Education’s National Mission for Education using ICT for various national projects in haptics, virtual labs, Educational Resource Planning, Natural Language Processing and interactive e-learning systems along with IITs and IISc.
The faculty of AMRITA has published more than 300+ books and 40,000+ Scopus-indexed papers in reputed international and national journals with these papers garnering 500,000+ citations. AMRITA has attracted grants from various Governmental and private funding agencies to the tune of more than Rs. 750+ crores.
AMRITA has bagged or filed almost 500+ major patents and inventions in the past few years, which include Adaptive and Automatic Insulin Pump, Wireless technologies, nano medicine etc.
Recognizing the immense talent, technical knowledge, dedicated faculty, and visionary leadership with a focus on service to society, the Government of India has awarded Amrita University numerous mission mode projects: AVIEW (Amrita Virtual Interactive E-learning World), Haptics-based vocational training and education for women’s empowerment, Virtual Labs, MEDSIM, OLABS 2, Adaptive Learning & CCE (Comprehensive Continuous Evaluation), Academic ERP (Academic Enterprise Resource Planning), TIFAC-CORE for Cyber Security, TIFAC-CORE for Biomedical Engineering, National Knowledge Network (NKN) Global Classroom, National Pedagogy Project, etc.
AMRITA has been a partner in various international bilateral governmental research programmes and initiatives, such as Indo-US Initiative (Cyber Security, Cyber Crimes, & Cyber Forensics), Indo-European Union (Erasmus Mundus, India4EU programs), Indo-Japan Initiative in Wireless Networks & Applications, Indo-Brazilian bilateral programme on Wireless Networks and Techniques with Applications to Societal Needs, Indo-Italy bilateral Science and Technology Co-operation in Robotics, and Indo-Brazil programme in Nanomaterials for Renewable Energy.
AMRITA hosts 3 UNESCO chairs in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development and Assistive Technologies in Education
The 1450-bed super-specialty hospital, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) attached to the Amrita School of Medicine at the Health Sciences campus in Kochi, is a unique, state-of-the-art institution offering subsidized and free treatment of Rs. 900 crores to poor and needy patients with 65 lakh patients benefitting.
Over the last 30 years, the hospital has treated over one crore patients across India. AIMS’ extensive infrastructure comprises 100+ departments and 17 centres of excellence, 30 modern operating theatres, 275 Well-equipped Intensive Care beds, a reference diagnostic clinical laboratory, including advanced Molecular Biology and Cytogenetics Labs, a state-of-the-art Diagnostic Imaging Centre and Research Facility.
A fully computerized and networked Hospital Information System and a fully digitized Radiology Department enhance patient care.
The 2600-bed super-specialty hospital, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) attached to the Amrita School of Medicine at the Health Sciences campus in Faridabad commenced operation in 2022. AIMS’ extensive infrastructure comprises 80+ departments and 10 centres of excellence, 64 modern operating theatres, and 534 Well-equipped Intensive Care beds.
Amrita has signed 300+ Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with several prestigious universities in Europe, Australia, East Asia, South America, and North America including: the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Davis, and San Diego, Columbia University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, KTH – the Royal Institute of Technology, VU Amsterdam, Oxford University, TU Munich, Deakin University, Australian National University, the University of Tokyo, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and many more.
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham offers a wide range of full-time and part-time opportunities such as student exchange programs, dual degree masters programs, study abroad programs, internships, summer school programs, the Live-in-Labs® program (experiential learning in rural India), and joint PhD programs.
All the students of Amrita University have ample opportunities for orientation in Yoga, Meditation and Cultural Education. Integrated Amrita Meditation (IAM) technique helps them achieve holistic development of mind and body. The students have also demonstrated their social commitment and community engagement by participating in disaster relief and rehabilitation activities after the Gujarat Earthquake in 2001; Tsunami relief operations in Tamil Nadu and Kerala in 2005-2006, flood relief operations in Bihar in 2009, Karnataka in 2010, Chennai flood relief in 2015.
AMRITA students in all campuses have played an active role in the Amala Bharatham – Clean India awareness drive and campaigns in their communities as well as wholeheartedly participating in the cleaning of the Sabarimalai pilgrimage site before and after the pilgrimage season for the last decade.