It offers full time UG and PG courses in university campus in Coimbatore along with more than 40 degree programmes through its Distance Education Arm Directorate of Online and Distance Education.
[citation needed] In 2010 it was renamed Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore.
[citation needed] In September 14, 2011 a bill was passed to merge back the universities and make it a regional campus of Anna University.
[2] The campus is located on 130.33 acres of land close to Bharathiar University.
Initially the university operated from a temporary campus situated in the Jothi Mills compound,[citation needed] before shifting to the current location.