University
of satellites is a unitary, teaching and residential university. Founded by the
generosity of philanthropist heart farsighted and noble patron of letters the
late honourable Dr. Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar of Chettinad, KT, LL.D.,
D.Litt. Many colleges began, and eventually, the University in 1929. Since its inception, it has tried
to gradually achieve the goals of the founder of the noble Pro-Chancellor. After
him, and his son was brilliant, Padma Bhushan Dr. Rajah Sir Muthiah Chettiar of
Chettinad, Pro Chancellor 1948-1984, and was studiously nurtured the growth and
development of the university. The University has had the unique good fortune
of having a succession of eminent Vice-Chancellors to guide its destinies.
During the
eighty-two-year-old recent university has grown rapidly and has strengthened
its position as a unified and residential University with forty-nine sections
of the study, and more than 3240 members of the teaching the body. Annamalainagar
is already a busy and full-fledged University town, east of Chidambaram, the
abode of Lord Nataraja. University campus, including colleges and hostels,
playgrounds, occupies an area of about a thousand acres.
