Surya School of Pharmacy, Vikravandi

Affiliated college Surya School of Pharmacy was established in 2008 located in Villupuram at Tamil Nadu, India. This PCI approved co-educational institution offers a variety of pharmaceutical programmes. Established in 1964 the college occupies a large piece of land of 70 acers; however it has been able to admit only 215 students for the total freshmen and sophomore enrolment, and 27 faculty members.

Surya School of Pharmacy offers four different degrees in the area of pharmacy for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Looking at the current course offered in the institute and the physical facilities available, one can tell that is indeed a pharmaceutical institute committed to offering education in the field.

Surya School of Pharmacy has had provision of most of the facility as will be explained under the following sub-sections. The campus comprises of different blocks for boys and girls hostels that afford full time students’comprehensive accommodation.

College health centre with first aid services provides health care to members of the college … Additionally for those who are in to the fitness aspect, Baraton University provides a facility to gym on campus. The college library is fully computerised and contains books in engineering, physics, chemistry, English, and mathematics as will enhance the studies of the college students and staff.

There are traditional outdoor sporting facilities like cricket, volley ball, basket ball, etc and there are indoor sporting facilities like chess, carom, table tennis, etc. The college also has a good information technology resources, a cafeteria, a 300-seater fully air-conditioned mini-auditorium and well equipped laboratory for various pharmaceutical specialisations.

The Surya School of Pharmacy as a whole makes available only four courses , all of which are a total full time programme. They include B. Pharma, D. Pharma, Pharm. D and M. Pharma Pharmaceutics degree candidature aspirants. Out of these B. Pharma programme is allowed to admit 100 students, whereas in D. Pharma programme 60 students can be admitted.

The total student intake across all programmes is 215 giving a hint that this college understands the importance of quality education and therefore it prefer to work under limited student-enrolment-to-teacher ratio. Surya School of Pharmacy selects students mostly on the basis of merit since its admission is under the management of the University. In the case of the Pharm. D and M.

Pharma Pharmaceutics, the college has given detailed information that admissions are merit-based. While the college has done a reasonable job of documenting their specific entrance exam requirements, it is very often that scores for specific pharmacy entrance exams are looked at.

As for the admission details the prospective students need to visit the college portal or the admission section for updated information on admissions, dates and any test accepted by the college.