Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli

Bharathidasan University endears to espouse to such core values that position the Institution on the righteous path in its relentless endeavour of creating 'A New Brave World' characterized by Creative Excellence, Community Equity, Competence Eminenc e Excellence, Community Equity, Competence Eminence and Characteristic Exemplar. BDU insists the pulsating value of Creative Excellence upon the Academia and Administration leading to resoundingly sustained inventive pursuits in propelling new knowledge, superior learning and rewarding innovation. BDU inculcates the stimulating value of Community Equity upon all Stakeholders and Neighbourhood-communities as a means of advancing a social order that cares for /shares with the disadvantaged and works for societal up-lift. BDU injects the synergizing value of Competence Eminence upon Students/Scholars to acquire ‘the best- the most- the choicest learning/skills’, by oneself and/or aligning with compatible collaborators to sport global competences. BDU imbibes the resonating value of Characteristic Exemplar, upon all Colleagues and Others that everyone so naturally follows a life style that marks and evokes honesty, modesty, novelty, precocity, simplicity and sagacity. The University's main Campus was initially located in a sprawling area of over 1000 acres in Palkalaiperur. However, as years passed on, the South Campus at Palkalaiperur with the available infrastructure was donated to the newly started Anna University of Technology. Very recently, another portion of the land has been allotted to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Tiruchirappalli. Now the University has a sprawling area of 432.42 acres. Also, the University has a downtown campus at Khajamalai with a sprawling area of 39.99 acres, which housed originally the Autonomous Post-Graduate Centre of the University of Madras at Tiruchirappalli. In addition to the administrative complex, which includes the Vice-Chancellor's Secretariat, Registrar's Office, Finance and Examination offices, most of the academic departments and research laboratories are located in the main Palkalaiperur Campus. Among the academic units in the Palkalaiperur Campus are Schools of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Basic Medical Sciences, Geosciences, Social Sciences, Marine Sciences and the Schools of Languages. In addition, the Campus also has the Central Library, University Informatics Centre, Hostels, Staff Quarters, Health Centre, Canteen and others. The downtown campus has the Departments of Social Work, Computer Science, Remote Sensing, Geology, Statistics, Women's Studies, Educational Technology, Lifelong Learning, the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre (Formerly UGC-Human Resource Development Centre / UGC-Academic Staff College) and others. Besides these, the Bharathidasan Institute of Management popularly known as BIM (adjudged as one of the top business schools in the country) is located within the BHEL premises, a public sector undertaking at Tiruverumbur.