University of Madras
 Coat of arms of the University of Madras | |
| Motto | Doctrina Vim Promovet Insitam (Latin) |
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Motto in English | "Learning Promotes Natural Talent" |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1857 |
| Chancellor | Governor of Tamil Nadu |
| Vice-Chancellor | P. Duraisamy[1] |
| Location | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 13°5′2″N 80°16′12″E / 13.08389°N 80.27000°E / 13.08389; 80.27000Coordinates: 13°5′2″N 80°16′12″E / 13.08389°N 80.27000°E / 13.08389; 80.27000 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Cardinal |
| Affiliations | UGC, NAAC, AIU |
| Mascot | Lion |
| Website | www.unom.ac.in |
University of Madras is a public state university in Chennai (formerly Madras), Tamil Nadu, India.[2] Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and premier universities in India. The university was incorporated by an act of the Legislative Council of India.[3]
It is a collegiate research university and has six campuses in the city viz., Chepauk, Marina, Guindy, Taramani, Maduravoyal and Chetpet. At present, there are 73 academic departments grouped under 18 schools, covering diverse areas such as sciences, social sciences, humanities, management and medicine along with 109 affiliated colleges and 52 approved research institutions.
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council has conferred 'five star' accreditation to the university and it has been given the status of 'University with Potential for Excellence' by the University Grants Commission.[4]
University of Madras is the alma mater of two Indian Physics Nobel Laureates, including Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, five Presidents of India, including A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, and several notable mathematicians including Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Contents
1 History
2 Coat of arms
3 Schools and departments
4 Campuses and constituent colleges
5 Senate House
6 Affiliated colleges and research institutions
6.1 Notable colleges
6.2 Research institutions
7 Notable alumni
8 Rankings
9 Grants
10 See also
11 References
12 External links
History
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Six prize students for the year 1865 from the University of Madras
The Madras University Senate House and Marina Beach, 1905
T. Schaya Iangar, a Madras University Professor, taken in the 1860s by a photographer from the Madras School of Industrial Arts
The first ever demand for higher education in Madras Presidency was given in a public address to Lord John Elphinstone, Governor of Madras, signed by 70,000 residents when the Governor in Council was contemplating "some effective and liberal measures for the establishment of an improved system of national education." This public petition, which was presented by the Advocate General Mr. George Norton on 11 November 1839, pressed the need for an English college in the city of Madras. Pursuant to this, Lord Elphinstone evolved a plan for the establishment of a central collegiate institution or a ‘university.’ This university had twin departments – a high school for the cultivation of English literature, regional language, philosophy and science, and a college for instruction in the higher branches of literature, philosophy and science.
The University Board was constituted in January 1840 with Mr. George Norton as its president. This was the precursor of the present Presidency College, Chennai. A systematic educational policy for India was formulated 14 years later by Wood's despatch, which pointed out the rationale for "creating a properly articulated system of education from the primary school to the University." The Dispatch recommended the establishment in the universities of Professorships "for the purposes of the delivery of lectures in various branches of learning including vernacular as well as classical languages." As a result, the University of Madras, organized on the model of the University of London, was incorporated on 5 September 1857 by an Act of the Legislative Council of India.
The university progressed and expanded through the 19th century to span the whole of South India, giving birth to universities like Mysore University (1916), Osmania University (1918), Andhra University (1926), Annamalai University (1929), Travancore University (1937) presently University of Kerala, Sri Venkateswara University (1954), Madurai Kamaraj University (1966), Bharathidasan University (1982), Bharathiar University (1982), Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (1990), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (1971), Anna University (1978), Tamil University (1981), Mother Teresa Women's University (1984), Dr. M.G.R. Medical University (1989), Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (1989), Periyar University (1997) and Dr. Ambedkar Law University (1996).
In 1912 endowments were made to the university to establish departments of Indian History, Archaeology, Comparative Philology and Indian Economics. In that year the university had 17 departments, 30 teachers, and 69 research scholars. Later the research and teaching functions of the university were encouraged by the Sadler Commission and the gains of the University were consolidated by the enactment of the Madras University Act of 1923. About this time, the territorial ambit of the Madras University encompassed from Berhampur of Odisha in the North East, Trivandrum of Kerala in the South West, Bangalore and Mangalore of Karnataka in the West and Hyderabad of Andhra Pradesh in the North.
Between 1926 and 1939, the university published the comprehensive Tamil Lexicon dictionary, which is the first among the dictionaries published in any Indian language.[7]
Coat of arms
The description of the Coat of Arms of the university, designed in 1857, is:
"Argent (silver or white) on a Mount issuant from the basement a Tiger passant proper (walking and coloured naturally), on a Chief Sable (black across the top), a Pale Or (a gold or yellow vertical strip down the centre 1/3 of the top or chief), thereon, between two Elephants heads couped of the field, a lotus flower leaved and slipped of the third, together with this motto Doctrina Vim Promovet Insitam".
The coat of arms colours are: the base is light green, the tiger is yellow on a white background, the elephant is grey on a black background, the lotus is a white flower with olive green leaves, on a gold background. The motto scroll is edged red, with black lettering. The English translation of the motto of the University of Madras is: "Learning promotes natural talent."
University of Madras Entrance Arch at Chepauk Campus
In Senate House: A view of the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1937.
Schools and departments
The university is made up of over 13 chairs or centres, 20 schools and 85 departments. The twenty schools are:[8]
- School of Historical Studies
- School of Social Sciences
- School of Political and International Studies
- School of Economics
- School of Philosophy and Religious Thought
- School of Fine and Performance Arts
- School of English and Foreign Languages
- School of Tamil and other Dravidian Languages
- School of Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages
- School of Management Studies
- School of Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science
- School of Information and Communication Studies
- School of Earth and Atmospheric Science
- School of Chemical Sciences
- School of Physical Sciences
- School of Life Sciences
- School of Basic Medical Sciences
- School of Nano Science and Photonics
- Department of Physical Education
Schools are further divided into departments. The departments are:[8]
- Department of Ancient History and Archaeology
- Department of Indian History
- Department of Adult and Continuing Education
- Department of Anthropology
- Department of Criminology
- Department of Education
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Sociology
- Department of Women's Studies
- Centre for Cyber Forensics and Information Security
- Department of Social Work
- Department of Counselling Psychology
- Department of Anna Centre for Public Affairs
- UGC - Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies
- Department of Defence and Strategic Studies
- Department of Legal Studies
- Department of Politics and Public Administration
- Centre for Population Studies
- Department of Dr. Ambedkar Centre for Economic Studies
- Department of Econometrics
- Department of Economics
- Department of Christian Studies
- JBAS Center for Islamic Studies
- Department of Jainology
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Saiva Siddhanta
- Department of Vaishnavism
- Department of Indian Music
- Department of English
- Department of French
- Department of Kannada
- Department of Malayalam
- Department of Tamil Language
- Department of Tamil Literature
- Department of Telugu
- Department of Center for Thirukkural Research
- Department of Sangapalagai for Tamil Development
- Department of Arabic, Persian and Urdu
- Department of Hindi
- Department of Sanskrit
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Management Studies
- Center for Infrastructural Management Studies
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics
- Department of Statistics
- Department of Journalism and Communication
- Department of Library & Information Science
- Department of Applied Geology
- Department of Geography
- Department of Geology
- Centre for Environmental Sciences
- Centre for Natural Hazards and Disaster Studies
- Center for Water Resource Management
- Department of Analytical Chemistry
- Department of Energy
- Department of Inorganic Chemistry
- Department of Organic Chemistry
- Department of Physical Chemistry
- Department of Polymer Science
- Department of Central Instrumentation and Service Laboratory
- Department of Crystallography and Biophysics
- Department of Nuclear Physics
- Department of Theoretical Physics
- Department of Network Systems and Information Technology
- Department of Material Science
- Department of Biochemistry
- Department of Biotechnology
- Department of Centre for Advanced Study in Botany
- Centre for Ocean and Coastal Studies
- Department of Zoology
- Department of Bio-informatics
- Department of Anatomy
- Department of Endocrinology
- Department of Genetics
- Department of Medical Biochemistry
- Department of Microbiology
- Department of Pathology
- Department of Pharmacology and Environmental Toxicology
- Department of Physiology
- National Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology
- National Centre for Ultrafast Process
- Department of Physical Education and Sports
Campuses and constituent colleges
The university is spread over six campuses, viz., Chepauk, Marina, Guindy, Taramani, Chetput and Maduravoyal. The Chepauk campus of the university houses the VC's secretariat, central library, centenary auditorium and the historic Senate House. The oriental and Indian languages departments are located in the Marina Campus. The Guindy campus incorporates the natural sciences departments while the campus at Taramani houses the school of basic medical sciences. The sports union and the botanical garden are based in Chetpet and Maduravoyal campus respectively.
The university has two constituent college, in Nemmeli and Thiruvottiyur, offerings courses in arts and science.[9]
Senate House
The University of Madras has a historical monument – Senate House – which is one of the landmarks of the city of Chennai. The Senate House, the University's first building, inaugurated in the year 1879, is a masterpiece of Robert Fellowes Chisholm, an architect of the 19th century, who blended the Indo-Saracenic style with Byzantine and European architectural features. The university renovated the Senate House in 2006.
Affiliated colleges and research institutions
Notable colleges
- Loyola College
- Presidency College
- Madras Christian College
- Stella Maris College
- Women's Christian College
- Ethiraj College for Women
- DG Vaishnav College
- Queen Mary's College
- The New College
- Madras School of Art
- Madras School of Social Work
- A. M. Jain College
- Guru Nanak College
- M.O.P. Vaishnav College
- SHASUN College
- Stella Matutina College of Education
- Vivekananda College
- Pachaiyappa's College
- Sir Theagaraya College
- Anna Adarsh College for Women,Annanagar
Research institutions
- Adyar Cancer Institute
- Central Leather Research Institute
- Central Institute of Brackish Water Aquaculture
- Defence Services Staff College
- Institute for Financial Management and Research
- King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research
- Loyola Institute of Business Administration
- Madras Institute of Development Studies
- Madras School of Economics
- MS Swaminathan Research Foundation
- National Defence College
- National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis
- National Institute of Epidemiology
- Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics
Notable alumni
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University of Madras has a strong alumni network with its alumni taking over many prestigious positions across the world. Some of the prominent alumni include Nobel laureates C. V. Raman[10] and S. Chandrasekhar,[11] mathematicians Srinivasa Ramanujan and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, former presidents Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, V. V. Giri, Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, R. Venkataraman and A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, politicians Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, C Subramaniam, CN Annadurai and V. K. Krishna Menon, civil servants T. N. Seshan, Benegal Rama Rau and Y. Venugopal Reddy, pioneers Verghese Kurien, Raj Reddy, Rangaswamy Srinivasan and M. S. Swaminathan, economist C. K. Prahalad, K. N. Raj, Raja Chelliah and C. Rangarajan, business persons Indra Nooyi, Ram Shriram and Prathap C. Reddy, cinema actors and directors M.G. Ramachandran, Gemini Ganesan and Mani Ratnam, sports stars Viswanathan Anand, Vijay Amritraj, Sureshkumar Devarajulu and Ramanathan Krishnan among others.
Physics Nobel laureate, Sir C. V. Raman
Mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan
2nd President of India, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
11th President of India, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
M. S. Swaminathan, Father of green revolution
Computer scientist, Raj Reddy
PepsiCo Chairperson, Indra Nooyi
Chess Grandmaster, Viswanathan Anand
Cognitive neuroscientist, V. S. Ramachandran
Rankings
| University rankings | |
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| General – international | |
QS (BRICS) (2018)[12] | 171-180 |
| General – India | |
NIRF (Overall) (2018)[13] | 29 |
NIRF (Universities) (2018)[14] | 18 |
Internationally, the university was ranked 171-180 in the QS University Rankings BRICS University Rankings of 2018.[12] In India, the National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked it 29 overall[13] and 18 among universities in 2018.[14]
A study performed by the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies on the performance of universities in India in 1998-2008 listed Madras University as #5 based on publication for that period.[15]
Grants
In 2011, the University Grants Commission selected the university as a university with potential for excellence, under which the university gets ₹ 250 million (₹ 25 crore). The university had been selected under phase 1 of the scheme in 2001–02 along with a few other universities in the country. UGC has identified the school of geology and the school of zoology of the university as centres of excellence and has allotted ₹ 32.5 million (₹ 3.25 crore) each for their development. The university is planning to use the funds to buy equipment and improve infrastructure.[16]
See also
- Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics
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^ ab "Schools"
^ constituent colleges
^ "After earning a master’s degree in physics at Presidency College, University of Madras, in 1907, Raman became an accountant in the finance department of the Indian government." http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/490449/Sir-Chandrasekhara-Venkata-Raman
^ "Chandra studied at Presidency College, University of Madras, and he wrote his first research paper", http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Chandrasekhar.html
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^ ab "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2018 (Overall)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2018.
^ ab "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2018 (Universities)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2018.
^ "Measures of Performance of Universities in India: An Analysis of the Publication Output in Science and Technology (Study period 1998-2008)" (PDF). National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies. 2011.
^ "UGC selects Madras univ as potential centre of excellence, grants Rs 25 cr". The Times of India epaper. Chennai: The Times Group. 29 December 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
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