About Us

With headquarters at Coimbatore and campuses at Amritapuri, Kochi, Bengaluru and Mysore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has emerged as one of the fastest growing institutions of higher learning in India.

The Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is a dream come true, a dream nursed by Mata Amritanandamayi to have a centre of excellence in learning for the benefit of all. Satguru Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma, one of the foremost humanitarian leaders in the world today, is the Chancellor of the University. In less than two decades, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has blossomed into a multi-disciplinary, multicampus centre that offers over 150+ undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in Engineering, Business, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Journalism, Biotechnology, Information Technology, Arts and Sciences, Health Sciences, Education, Microbiology, Hospital Management, Visual Media Studies, Communication, Social Work and Nanosciences and Ayurveda.

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has the unique distinction of being the nation’s first of its kind – fully interactive, multidisciplinary, multi-media, virtual campus without geographical limitations linking all its campuses. The satellite network for education and research that links all the campuses of the university has facilitated leading experts to have academic interaction Live from a single Centre to students, academicians and researchers at other campuses, done through state-of-the-art e-learning studios in all campuses. These studios are equipped with 130 seats for classroom instruction, 7 days a week using satellite link provided by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).

Based on evaluation of all campuses and programs by a peer review committee, the university has been accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) with an ‘A’ grade. Amrita has also been ranked in the Ivy League of Indian Universities along with Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai etc. in a review of deemed universities by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) of the Government of India. In a recent review of Deemed Universities by a high-power committee of reputed academicians, popularly known as the Tandon Committee, set up by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was placed in Category 1. In Tamil Nadu, besides Amrita, only the Chennai Mathematical Institute, a Deemed University, was given this recognition.