Amrita Schools of Engineering
engineering schools of Amrita University
Amrita Schools of Engineering are private engineering schools in India part of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore which is spread across its seven campuses in Coimbatore,Amritapuri (Kollam), Bengaluru, Chennai, Amaravati, Nagercoil and Haridwar. The schools offer undergraduate, integrated degree, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes in various engineering & Technology disciplines.
The schools were founded by Mata Amritanandamayi Devi in 1994, and are managed by her international humanitarian organization Mata Amritanandamayi Math.
History
The Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore was established in 1994 as an Engineering college in Ettimadai, about 20 km away from the Coimbatore city. It was the first higher educational institution to be set up by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, which then had only 120 students and 13 faculty members. In 2003, it became Deemed university. Amrita's first campus, Ettimadai campus is home to the administrative headquarters of Amrita University.
Later in 2002, two new campuses were opened with schools of engineering at Bengaluru, and Amritapuri. While the Bengaluru campus sits in Kasavanahalli, a neighbourhood in south-west of the Bengaluru metropolis, the Amritapuri campus was set up in the village of Vallikavu, next to the international headquarters of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math.
In 2003, Amrita Vishwa Vidapeetham became one of the youngest universities to be conferred the status of a deemed university.
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