Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya
Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi Viswa Maha Vidyalaya is deemed university at Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu, India. The university was established in 1993 with the blessing of Their Holiness Pujyasri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal and Pujyasri Sankara Vijayendra Saraswati Swamigal. It attained the status of Deemed University in 1993.
The Ministry of Human Resources Development declared the institution a 'Deemed University' under Section 3 of the UGC Act, on 26.05.1993.
Location
The university is on a campus of at Enathur, four kilometres from Kancheepuram and 80 kilometres from Chennai.Memoranda of understanding
The university has MOUs with the following institutions:- Birla Institute of Technology and Science
- French Institute of Pondicherry
- Great Lakes Institute of Management
- Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai
- Kellogg Graduate School of Management
- National Stock Exchange of India Ltd, Mumbai
- Universitas Hindu Indonesia, Bali, Indonesia
- Yogi Ramsurtkumar Research Foundation for Asian Culture, Tiruvannamalai
Research
The university promotes research and development in all its departments, under the dean of research and development.Ph.D. programmes are offered in all departments. The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Culture has produced more than 25 doctoral degrees. A large number of researchers are pursuing their doctoral research programmes. Admissions are offered twice a year into the doctoral programmes.
Academic departments
The university consists of the following schools:- School of Management
- School of Education
- School of Engineering and Technology
- School of Science
- School of Social Science and Humanity
- School of Health and Life Science
- School of Languages
- School of Sanskrit and Indian Culture