Amrita Schools of Engineering

Amrita Schools of Engineering are a group of engineering colleges in India under the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a private deemed university, spread across its four campuses in Amritapuri, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Coimbatore. The schools offer undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes in various engineering disciplines.

Amrita Schools of Engineering
Information
Type	Private Engineering College
Founder	Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
Category	Engineering
Medium of language	English
Campuses	Amritapuri, Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore
Affiliation	Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, AICTE

The schools were founded by Mata Amritanandamayi Devi in 1994, and are managed by her international humanitarian organisation Mata Amritanandamayi Math.

History

The Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore was established in 1994, in a obscure village of Ettimadai at the foothills of Bouluvanpatty ranges, about 20 km away from the Coimbatore city. It was the first higher educational institution to be set up by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, which at then had only 120 students and 13 faculty members. As Amrita's first campus, the Coimbatore is still home to the administrative headquarters of Amrita University.

Later in 2002, two new campuses were opened with schools of engineering at Bengaluru, and Amritapuri. While the Bengaluru campus sits in Kasavanahalli, a neighbourhood in south-west of the Bengaluru metropolis, the Amritapuri campus was set up in the village of Vallikavu, next to the international headquarters of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math.

In 2003, Amrita Vishwa Vidapeetham became one of the youngest universities to be conferred the status of a deemed university.

In 2019, an engineering school started operating in the newly established Chennai campus, at the outskirts of the Chennai city in a small village of Vengal.

Schools

Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri

The school of engineering in the Amritapuri Campus has Computer Science, Electrical & Electronics, Electronics & Communication, and Mechanical Engineering departments.

It is home to bi0s, a cyber security club that has been consistently ranked as India's No.1 CTF team.[1] It is ranked 19 globally in 2019,[2] while no other Indian institution features in the top 50. The Free and Open-Source Software club, amFOSS is also based in this campus, and has produced over 50 Google Summer of Code Students,[3] and the campus was 9th ranked globally in 2018.[4]

Amrita School of Engineering, Bengaluru

The school of engineering in the Bengaluru Campus has Computer Science, Electrical & Electronics, Electronics & Communication, Mechanical Engineering departments alike in the Amritapuri campus, both of which were established together in 2002. It was previously affiliated to the Visveswaraiah Technological University, Belgaum,[5] before joining the later deemed Amrita University.

Amrita School of Engineering, Chennai

The school of engineering in the Chennai campus is newest of among the four, and started functioning in 2019. It has Civil, Computer Science, Electrical & Electronics, Electronics & Communication, Mechanical Engineering departments.

Amrita School of Engineering, Coimbatore

The school of engineering in Coimbatore campus predates the university, and in 1994 became the first higher-education institution to be set up by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math. It has the largest intake of students annually, and also offers the most number of programs among the four engineering schools of Amrita. Among the four, It is also the only school to have Aerospace and Chemical Engineering Departments. Other than that, the school has Civil, Computer Science, Electrical & Electronics, Electronics & Communication and Mechanical Departments.

Programs

The schools offer undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral courses in various engineering disciplines. The Amrita University having the deemed university status, enjoys full autonomy over the courses, syllabus, admissions and fees in its schools of engineering. However, the programmes are approved and come under the regulations of the AICTE.

List of B.Tech Programs offered in Amrita Campuses with their Annual Intake

Course	Branch	Amritapuri	Bangalore	Chennai	Coimbatore	Total
B.Tech	Aerospace Engineering	0	0	0	60	60
	Chemical Engineering	0	0	0	60	60
	Civil Engineering	0	0	60	60	120
	Computer & Communication	0	0	0	60	60
	Computer Science	240	120	60	360	780
	Computer Science (AI)	60	60	0	60	180
	Electrical & Computer	60	60	0	60	180
	Electrical & Electronics	60	60	60	120	300
	Electronics & Communication	60	180	60	180	480
	Electronics & Computer	60	60	0	0	120
	Mechanical Engineering	120	120	60	180	480
	Total	660	660	300	1200	2820

Admission

The admissions to all the B.Tech programmes offered at Amrita Schools of Engineering is done through Amrita Engineering Entrance Examinaton (AEEE) and Joint Entrance Examination. While 70% of the seats are reserved for AEEE candidates, the rest are allotted for students applying with their JEE Mains rank.[6] The candidates based on their ranks are invited for counselling at any of the campuses, where they are allowed to choose branch and campus available, and book their seats.

AEEE

Amrita Engineering Entrance Examination (AEEE) is an annual multiple-choice entrance test conducted in April in various centres across India. Similar to the JEE, the test assesses candidates on high school topics from physics, mathematics and chemistry. Candidates are can choose to attempt the exam in two modes - Pen & Paper Test (PPT) and Computer Based Test (CBT) at the centres, after registering for the exams.[7]

Scholarships

The schools offer scholarships as fee waiver for first year students, based on the rank scored in the entrance examination. The student admitted through scholarship has to score minimum CGPA as per the university rules in order to earn the fee waiver in the subsequent years, or his scholarship is passed on to the next eligible student.[6]

References

1. team, ctftime. "CTFtime.org / bi0s". ctftime.org. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
2. "CTFtime.org / CTF teams". ctftime.org. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
3. "India's Leading FOSS Club". amfoss.in. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
4. "Google Summer of Code 2018 statistics part 2". Google Open Source Blog. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
5. "About Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore Campus | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham". www.amrita.edu. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
6. "Information Handbook - B.Tech. Admission 2019 | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham". www.amrita.edu. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
7. "AEEE 2019 - BTech Admission 2019 | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham". www.amrita.edu. Retrieved 29 July 2019.