Annamalai University
Annamalai University is one of Asia's largest public residential universities located
in Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. The university is spread across 1,500 acres
(6.1 km2) acres in Chidambaram and offers courses of higher
education in science, engineering, humanities, agriculture and arts.
The university also provides
more than 500 courses through distance education. The Directorate of Distance
Education (DDE) of Annamalai University offers education to those people who
are unable to attend the campus but who desire to study. It is credited with
the largest enrollment in India and is well equipped with computers and other
infrastructure, separate teaching faculty and administration, study centers,
and computer training centers to serve its students.
It was the first institution in
India to offer postgraduate degree programmes in Applied Psychology, Physics,
Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, Bioinformatics and Law through distance education.
The Directorate of Distance Education also offers programmes in Fashion Design,
Textile Design, Interior Design, Hotel Management and Catering Technology,
Retail Management, Twinning, Health Science, a Commonwealth Youth Programme,
Yoga, Music, Fire and Safety, Pharmaceutical and Taxation.
All the programmes of study
offered by the Directorate of Distance Education have the approval of the
Distance Education Council, New Delhi. The Directorate introduced a B.Ed.
Programme through distance education in 2008-09 with the approval of National
Council for Teacher Education, New Delhi.
This place is quite famous for
its colonial buildings.