SASTRA University, Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy.
Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA) is a university in the town of Thirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, India. It offers a wide range of courses, undergraduate and postgraduate engineering courses being the primary ones.
It started in 1984 in the form of Shanmugha College of Engineering, since renamed as the Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy. It offers undergraduate and post graduate courses in Engineering, Science, Education, Management and Arts, including some Doctoral programmes.
The campus occupies a built up area of over 1.2 million square feet (1,15,000 m²), and houses a population of over 9,000 students.
The institute has 7 boys' hostels and 4 girls' hostels providing so so accommodation to over 5000 boys and 3000 girls. A new hostel has been constructed for accommodating more on the campus. Also,the wi-fi range is being increased to the whole campus. The wi-fi facility has been extended to cover 7-Cube wadio (wireless radio).The streaming of live matches is quite a relief to the sport fans.
The institute has a separate internet center and multimedia area and also has mini-departmental stores inside every hostel. There are also facilities for sports and body building. The academy possesses a HP RP8400 super computer for advanced computing facilities, and plans to establish a NANO park in its campus with an investment of 20 crores.
Admissions into this esteemed university is only through Merit and is very transparent. The counseling is usually done during the period of June-July months after the Plus-2 exams are over for all the students of various Boards.
Schools in SASTRA are:
* School of Computing
* School of Management
* School of Civil Engineering
* School of Humanities & Sciences
* School of Mechanical Engineering
* School of Chemical & Biotechnology
* School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
* Centre for Nanotechnology & Advanced Biomaterials (CeNTAB)
* Centre for Advanced Research in Indian System of Medicine (CARISM)
* Directorate of Distance Education - SASTRA
Additionally, it has have received approval from the Bar Council of India to teach Law.
The university has been recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India. It was ranked 10th among all Private engineering colleges in INDIA, and 36th among all engineering colleges (private and public) in the country by OUTLOOK 2008. Although its always better not to go by rankings as there is always a chance of manipulation and influence.Its 'School Of Chemical and Biotechnology' was ranked 1st among all private institutions in the country, and 2nd (overall) in india.
In February-March 2007, the college hosted the first edition of its inter-college national-level Technical Festival Daksh and also the inter-college cultural Kuruksastra. In February-March 2008, they hosted the second edition of Daksh and Kuruksastra.
In February 2009 the third edition of the technical fest DAKSH took place. It had a great environment lasting 3 days although it lacked the enthusiasm and number of national, leave alone the international participants for its various events. After the failure of DAKSH very high hopes were pinned on KURUKSASTRA[the cultural event] but disappointment never stays behind, it caught up with us once again. Although the performance of some colleges were appreciable but it lacked the energy. The PRONITE was the the most appreciated event among the other events. It had a large number of fans gathered to view the performance of Benny Dayal and Naresh Iyer much to the relief of south folks.
The University has various clubs, stretching from environmental ones to technical ones. The club GLOSS is sponsored by Sun Microsystems, while the club "Icon" deals with soft skills. The "iClub", which has been recently introduced, provides seminars and interactive sessions on popular subjects.
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