University of Madras
Also known as Madras University, University of Chennai, Chennai University, UoM, Madras University, Chennai
state public university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Key facts
- Other name
- Cheṉṉai palkalaikalhagam
- Motto
- Doctrina Vim Promovet Insitam ( Latin ) "கற்றனைத்தூறும் அறிவும் ஆற்றலும்" ( Tamil )
- Motto in english
- Learning Promotes Natural Talent
- Type
- State university
- Established
- 5 September 1857 ; 168 years ago ( 5 September 1857 )
- Affiliations
- UGC , NAAC , AIU , ACU
- Chancellor
- Governor of Tamil Nadu
- Vice chancellor
- Vacant
- Students
- 4,819
- Postgraduates
- 3,239
- Doctoral students
- 1,099
- Campus
- Urban
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The University of Madras is a public state university in Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and most prominent universities in India, incorporated by an act of the Legislative Council of India under the British government. The university is the alma mater of five Presidents of India, including A. P. J. Abdul Kalam; three Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of India; two Indian physics Nobel laureates, CV Raman and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; several notable mathematicians including Srinivasa Ramanujan and Abel Prize winner S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan; and Turing Award winner Raj Reddy among others.
The University of Madras is a collegiate research university and has six campuses in the city: Chepauk, Marina, Guindy, Taramani, Maduravoyal and Chetpet. It offers more than 230 courses under 87 academic departments of post-graduate teaching and research grouped under 18 schools, covering diverse areas such as sciences, social sciences, humanities, management and medicine along with 121 affiliated colleges and 53 approved research institutions. The university houses national centres for advanced research in nanotechnology, photonics and neurotoxicity. In addition, it has three Centres of Advanced Study in biophysics, botany and the Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics.