Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is a university established under section 3 of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act of 1956. The university was founded by Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, popularly known as AMMA. AMMA’s guidance, nourishment, energy, and resources have made this varsity one of the world’s top class institutions which is now having 5-campus, multi-disciplinary, University with over 15 schools, 75 degree programs, 1000 faculty, and 7000 students.

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is very popular for some of its specialized programs in the field of engineering, medical and management studies. Amrita’s flagship colleges of engineering, have attracted reputed faculty from all over the world, who have moved permanently from prestigious schools such as Illinois, UT Austin, Purdue, Harvard, Pacific Bell, Berkeley, Rutgers, Simon Fraser, Ohio State, and IIT Madras etc. The beneficiaries are students, who, when they graduate, are much sought after by hundreds of companies.

Amrita offers various undergraduate and post graduate courses in the field of engineering, Medical & Allied Health Science, Arts & Basic Sciences. The university has a specialty that Ph.D. Programmes are offered by almost all the Schools in all the Departments.

Amrita has also been dedicated towards research activities. Its global research initiatives - winsoc aims to create and deploy new wireless sensor networks environmental monitoring (such as, landslide detection) jointly with 10 European partners.