Engineering Education

Tamil Nadu has a glorious history relating to technical education. Tamil Nadu prides from the fact that the first engineering institution to come into being in the country was the Survey School established in 1794 at Madras by the East India Company. Out of this it grew as reputed College of Engineering, Guindy, and Chennai.

Today Tamil Nadu has climbed the sky of success in developing its educational infrastructure and potential. It holds some of the best technological universities of the world including the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, and Anna University.

Anna University is a unitary type of university promoting study and research in the field of engineering, technology and applied sciences. The varsity is not only popular among Indian students, even students from abroad visit the campus to have a glimpse of its academic excellence. The university has been trying to maintain an equal quality of education and uniform standard all through the state by implementing certain guidelines which are on par with international standard.

Tamil Nadu has 248 engineering colleges as per the 2006-07 data. The one most interesting fact about Tamil Nadu is that it produces the highest numbers of engineering graduates – approx. 1, 00,000 every year and TN has many firsts to its credit.

Here, we have compiled a comprehensive list of engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu. The list has institute details, courses offered and number of seats available with each particular institute.

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