Meenakshi College Starts Two New Courses

After completing three decades of education activity, the Meenakshi group of institutions in Chennai is planning a major expansion focusing on improving R and D, and expanding its engineering education offerings.

Explaining the group activity and management committee for Women, K.S. Lakshmi said the arts and Science College planned to introduce postgraduate programmes in bioinformatics and international studies. Since its founding in 1975 with 100 students, the college, she noted, had grown now a student strengthof 3,000 studying in 20 UG and PG programmes, besides a clutch of dedicated M.Phil scholars and associates in projects. “We are making efforts to start the two PG courses,” Dr.Lakshmi said adding that the college was already offering more than two dozen certificate course. For value-add to the degree courses. For example, she explained travel tourism, airline tickets were certificate courses offered to history students, medical lab technology for zoology students, or e-commerce and tally for B.Com. students.

Meenakshi college was among the very few institutions that used satellite-based education (using V-SAT classes. A virtual classroom fitted with necessary infrastructure for satellite communication served students of all departments, she noted.

A well-endowed library, high end computing facilities, and easy access for almost all students provided the college the required edge to start of into the new courses.

Live Research Projects

On the question of starting Ph.D. centres. Dr.Lakshmi says she would rather take up live research projects and research studies for post graduate students.

The Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, the other institution of the group, plans to introduce Mechanical Engineering and Bio-Medical engineering…” The engineering college now offers five branches and plans were a foot add PG in engineering stream too.

“In six years since its founding the engineering college has creative a good academic record… we are ranked very high among the 240 affiliated colleges of Anna University. Our reputation is backed by the fact that 95 per cent of our students (2006-2007 batch) have been placed in reputed companies,” says principal K.S. Babai. The college had evolved a pioneering system by which students themselves handle the entire placements.

Meenakshi College Starts Two New Courses