Shanmuga Industries Arts and Science College, Tiruvannamalai

Shanmuga Industries Arts and Science College, is a self financing college is situated in Nallavanpalayam, Tiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu and was started in the year 1997 as is an affiliated college. Located in a 10. 74-acre land, the institution provides 47 different courses in eleven different degree programmes.

It has a strength of 5459 students and the faculty of the college is 192 so it has good student-teacher ratio. The gender distribution reveals 3,564 male students and 1,756 female students. Affiliated with the Thiruvalluvar University and approved by AICTE, the college provides both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the faculties of arts and science.

Shanmuga Industries Arts and Science College has high standard facilities in its campus to facilitate the students and to improve learning environment. The campus includes a boys’ and girls’ hostel that has beds available and other facilities such as power, a dispensary and computer room. A well-proportioned library contains more than 13325 books, and fifty five plus magazines and journals can also be accessed.

Internet accessible Pentium servers and nodes or equivalent software and hardware is also installed by the college. In the aspect of physical fitness and recreational services, there are amenities for sporting and games such as volleyball, football, and shuttle cock badminton. The facility also features a canteen, an 800 seater auditorium and a fitted with Wi-Fi.

The courses offered by the Shanmuga Industries Arts and Science College are by all means vast and diverse. It offers forty seven programmes among them 31 undergraduate programmes, 11 Masters and 5 Doctoral programmes. Some of the major courses offered are B. Com , B. B. A. , B. Sc in the various disciplines like Computer Science, Math, Physics and Chemistry and MCA , M. Sc and M. Phil programmes are also offered.

The college also provides Ph. D. in subjects such as Tamil , Commerce, Microbiolog , {hysics and Chemistry . All courses are full time and the duration of each course varies between three years for undergraduate courses and two years for postgraduate courses. The self financing colleges like Shanmuga Industries Arts and Science College follows merits as the criteria to admit their students.

The college provides a scholarship for those who deserve it. The institution has vast alumni base in his alumni serve in many sectors including government services, banking, software engineering, and academic institutions. The college boasts such a statut that more than forty five of current teachers of the college were trained in the institution.