Sri Akilandeswari Women's College

Sri Akilandeswari Women’s College started in 1995 as a self financing institution was formerly affiliated to University of Madras and got affiliated to the Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore since 20.08.2002. The college is the first self-financing women’s college in Thiruvannamalai District. It is situated in the rural area of Wandiwash on a 12 acres campus. The college was started with the objective of upliftment of rural girls from poverty and ignorance through higher education. It was started with four undergraduate courses and 35 students. Subsequently six undergraduate, six postgraduate and two certificate courses were added.
The college offers undergraduate programmes in Biochemistry, Microbiology, Nutrition Food Service Management & Dietetics, Computer Science, Computer Applications, Tamil, Commerce, Mathematics, Botany and Physics. The college also offers postgraduate teaching programmes in Biochemistry, Microbiology, Information Technology, Commerce, Bioinformatics and Mathematics. Short term certificate course in Computer Applications, Spoken English and Baking Technology are also offered. The College has 19 permanent and 43 temporary teachers, 39 administrative and six technical staff. There are 930 students in undergraduate, 94 in postgraduate and 429 in certificate courses pursuing their study in the current academic year.
The total number of working days in the last academic year was 193 for I year and 233 for II and III year students. The College has Annual system for the undergraduate and some of the PG courses and Semester System for M.Sc. in Bioinformatics and Information Technology programmes. The college has Central Library, Hostel facility, Health Centre, Sports facilities, Co-operative stores and Grievance Redressal Cell.

 

Sri Akilandeswari Women’s College volunteered to be assessed by the NAAC, Bangalore and submitted its Self Study Report. A Peer Team was constituted by the NAAC to visit the institution and validate the Self Study Report. The Peer Team consisted of Prof. P. Geervani, Former Vice-Chancellor, Sri Padmavathi Mahila Vishwa Vidyalayam, Tirupati as Chairman, Dr. S. Ramesh, Dean, Faculty of Commerce and Management, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore as Member and Prof. P.P. Mathur, Professor & Head, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Coordinator, Bioinformatics Centre, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University as Member-Coordinator. The Team visited the college on 28th and 29th of January, 2006. 

 

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