Madras Public Research University
The university from Marina beach
The University of Madras is a public research university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the three oldest universities in India (along with the University of Calcutta and the University of Mumbai). The university is modeled after the University of London and was incorporated on 5 September 1857 by an act of the Legislative Council of India.
The university is situated in the southern city of Chennai. It is a collegiate university and has six campuses in the city Chepauk, Marina, Guindy, Taramani, Maduravoyal and Chetpet. It has more than 50 departments.
In 2004, all engineering courses of the university were shifted to Anna University. The university provides affiliation to colleges. The departments of the university conduct research in addition to teaching. There are nearly 43 external research institutes in addition to centres of excellence within the university.
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council has conferred Five Star Status to the university and it has been given the status of "University with Potential for Excellence" by the University Grants Commission.
History
Six prize students for the year 1865 from the University of Madras
The Madras University Senate House and Marina Beach, 1905
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 the dispatch of 1854 (Sir Charles Wood’s Education Dispatch), 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), The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University (1989), Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (1989), Periyar University (1997) and the Tamil Nadu 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.
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."
Campuses
The Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Madras Guindy campus
The university has campuses in Chepauk, Marina, Guindy and Taramani.
Chepauk campus: 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 Business and Management, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, School of Information and Communication Studies, School of Earth and Atmospheric Science.
Marina campus: School of Tamil and other Dravidian Languages, School of Sanskrit and other Indian Languages.
Guindy campus: School of Earth and Atmospheric Science, School of Chemical Sciences, School of Physical Sciences, School of Life Sciences.
Taramani campus: School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Nanoscience and Photonics departments.
Examinations
The bulk of the revenue comes to the university by way of examination fees. The university runs Distance Education programmes which widens the scope for revenue through examinations.
Senate House
See also: Senate House (University of Madras)
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.
Constituent colleges
Autonomous – arts and science colleges
- Bharathi Women's College
- Ethiraj College for Women
- Loganatha Narayanasamy Government Arts College
- Loyola College, Chennai
- M. O. P. Vaishnav College for Women
- Madras Christian College, Tambaram
- Presidency College, Chennai
- Queen Mary's College, Chennai
- Stella Maris College, Chennai
- The New College, Chennai
- Vaishnav College, Chennai
- Vivekananda College
Non-autonomous – arts and science colleges
- A. M. Jain College, Meenambakkam, Chennai
- Dr.Ambedkar Government Arts College
- Jaya Govind Harigopal Agarwal Agarsen College, Madhavaram, Chennai
- Government Arts College, Nandanam
- Government College of Arts and Crafts
- Government college of Architecture and Sculpture
- Loganatha Narayanasamy Government Arts College
- Quaid-e-Millath Government College for women
- Rajeswari Vedachalam Government Arts College
- Sri Subramaniaswami Government Arts College
- Sri Sankara Arts and Science College, Enathur, Kanchipuram
- SS Shasun Jain College for Women, T. Nagar, Chennai
- The Qaide Milleth College for Men, Arts and Science, Medavakkam
Notable alumni :
Nobel Laureates
- C. V. Raman (B.A., M.A. 1902), Nobel Prize in Physics (1930), Bharat Ratna (1954)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar(B.Sc 1925), Nobel Prize in Physics (1983), Copley Medal(1984)
Law and politics
Governor-General
- Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, Governor General of Independent India (1948–1950), Bharat Ratna (1954)
Presidents
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, second President of India (1962–1967), Bharat Ratna (1954)
- V. V. Giri, fourth President of India (1969–1974), Bharat Ratna (1975)
- Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy, sixth President of India (1977–1982)
- R. Venkataraman, eighth President of India (1987–1992)
- A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, eleventh President of India (2002–2007), Bharat Ratna (1997)
Chief justice
- Patanjali Sastri, Chief Justice of India
- K. Subba Rao, Chief Justice of India
Ministers
- Chidambaram Subramaniam, Minister, Bharat Ratna (1998)
- Palaniappan Chidambaram, Home Minister of India
- CN Annadurai – former chief minister of Tamilnadu
Science and technology
- A.V. Balakrishnan, applied mathematician; professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles
- G.N. Ramachandran (M.Sc. 1942), Biophysicist who described the structure of Collagen
- Sathamangalam R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Abel Prize (2007)
- K. S. Krishnan, Physicist, co-discover of Raman scattering, Padma Bhushan (1954)
- Indra Nooyi, Chairman, Pepsi Co.
Literature
- Najmul Hoda, scholar, writer and poet, ex-head of the departments of Urdu, Arabic and Persian
Film
- M.G. Ramachandran, Honorary Doctorate, actor in Tamil films and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
- Mani Ratnam, Tamil Indian film director, writer and producer, Padma Shri (2002)
- Vanamali, Telugu film lyricist, Ph.D. in Telugu literature
Departments :
List of University Departments
- Adult and Continuing Education
- Agro Economic Research Centre
- Anatomy
- Analytical Chemistry
- Ancient History and Archaeology
- Anna Centre for Public Affairs
- Anthropology
- Applied Geology
- Arabic, Persian and Urdu
- Biochemistry
- Biotechnology
- Botany
- Central Instrumentation and Service
- Centre for Research Dravidian Movement
- Centre for Ocean and Coastal Studies
- Centre for Population Studies
- Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies
- Christian Studies
- Commerce
- Computer Science
- Criminology
- Crystallography and Biophysics
- Defence and Strategic Studies
- Dr. Ambedkar Centre for Economic Studies
- Education
- Econometrics
- Economics
- Endocrinology
- Energy
- English
- French
- Genetics
- Geography
- Geology
- Hindi
- Indian History
- Indian Music
- Inorganic Chemistry
- Islamic Studies
- Mass Media and Communication Studies
- Jainology
- Kannada
- Legal Studies
- Library & Information Science
- Malayalam
- Management Studies
- Mathematics
- Medical Biochemistry
- Microbiology
- National Centre for Ultrafast Process
- National Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology
- Nuclear Physics
- Organic Chemistry
- Pathology
- Pharmacology and Environmental Toxicology
- Philosophy
- Physical Chemistry
- Physical Education and Sports
- Physiology
- Politics and Public Administration
- Polymer Science
- Psychology
- Saiva Siddhanta
- Sanskrit
- Sociology
- Statistics
- Tamil Language
- Tamil Literature
- Technology Business Incubator (TBI)
- Telugu
- Theoretical Physics
- Thirukkural Research Endowment
- Vaishnavism
- Zoology
Deans and Directors :
 | Director - Tholkapiar Campus Dr.A.Karuppaiah Professor and Head Dept. of Sociology Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone : 25399639 |
| Director - Parithimar Kalaignar Campus Dr. C.G. Rajendra Babu Professor and Head Dept. of Malayalam Parithimar Kalaingar, Chennai - 600005 Phone: |
 | Director - Maraimalai Campus Dr. S.P.Mohan Professor and Head Dept. of Geology Maraimalai Adigalar Campus, Chennai - 600025 Phone: |
 | Director - Sekhizhar Campus Dr. K. Balasubramanian Professor Dept. of Endocrinology Sekkizhar Campus, Chennai - 600113 Phone: |
 | Director - USAB NSS Programme Co-ordinator I/c., Dr. N. Raja Hussain Director University Students Advisory Bureau Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone: |
 | Director i/c- Institute of Distance Education Dr. V.Thangaraj Professor and Director, RIASM University of Madras Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone : 2561 3701 |
 | Director - IQAC Dr. P.Ramamurthy Director, NCUFP University of Madras Sekkizhar Campus, Chennai - 600113 Phone : |
 | Director - Planning and Development Dr. P.Duraisamy Professor and Head, Dept of Econometrics University of Madras Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone : |
| Director - Network Operation and Edusat Programmes Dr. K. Sivaji Assistant Professor,Dept of Nuclear Physics Maraiamalai Campus Chennai-600025 Phone : |
 | Director - University Evening College Dr.S. Gurusamy Professor & Head, Dept of Commerce, Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai-600005. Phone : |
 | Director i/c Dr. V. Mahadevan University Union Chennai Phone : |
 | Director - Publications Dr. O. Mathivanan, Assistant Professor Tamil, Institute of Distance Education Tholkappiar Campus Chennai - 600005 Phone : |
| Director - Dr.ALM Centre for Basic Medical Sciences Development Dr. H. Devaraj, Professor, Dept. of Zoology University of Madras Maraimalai Adigalar Campus, Chennai - 600025 Phone : |
| Director - UCIR Dr. V.D.Swaminathan Professor,Dept of Physcology University of Madras Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone : |
| Director i/c- Academic Staff College Dr.P.Sachidanandam Professor Dept of Medical Biochemistry, University of Madras Sekkizhar Campus, Chennai - 600113. Phone : |
| Director - Public Relations Dr. S.S. Sundaram Asst. Professor, Dept. of Indian History University of Madras Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone : |
 | Dean - Grants Dr. S.Karunanidhi Professor & Head, Dept. of Psycology University of Madras Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone : |
 | Dean - Academic Dr. G.Ravindran Professor & Head Mass Media and Communication Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone: |
| Dean - Research Dr. G.Koteswara Prasad Professor Rajiv Gandhi Chair. Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone: |
 | Dean - Industrial Consultancy [UICIC] Dr. N.Goutham Professor Dept. of Crystallography and Biophysics Maraimalai Campus, Chennai - 600113 Phone: |
 | Dean - Students Affairs Dr. P.T. Kalaichelvan Professor CAS in Botany Maraimalai Adigalar Campus, Chennai - 600025 Phone : |
 | Dean I/c. - College Development Council Dr. M.R.Srinivasan Professor,Dept of Statistics Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone: |
| Dean - Endowment Dr. G. Venkataraman Professor & Head Dept. of Indian History Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone : 25393666 |
 | Dean - Admissions Dr. R. Thilagaraj Professor and Head Dept. of Criminology Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone : 25399629 |
| Dean - Legal Affairs Dr. N.Balu Professor and Head Dept. of Legal Studies Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone : |
| Dean - Examinations Dr. M. Kandasamy Professor and Head, Dept of Inorganic Chemistry University of Madras Maraimalai Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone : |
| Deans - Extension Activities Dr. Sakthisekaran Professor & Head, Dept of Medical Biochemistry University of Madras Sekkizhar Campus, Chennai - 600005 Phone : |
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