Education in Chennai

IIT Madras, located in South Chennai is considered as the premier centre of engineering education in India.

[4] Government run schools offer both English and Tamil medium education.

[6] The sex education programme was made as a mandatory in Chennai schools and colleges for the first time in nearly two decades.

This announcement was done by the city Mayor at a function to commemorate World AIDS Day.

IIT Madras campus was carved out of a natural forest within the Guindy National Park.

[9][10] Located nearby, is the main campus of Anna University (1978), which formed from a merger of the College of Engineering, Guindy (1794), the Madras Institute of Technology (1949), the Alagappa College of Technology (1944), and the University of Madras School of Architecture and Planning (1957).

Almost all colleges in Tamil Nadu that offer programs in engineering, technology and architecture are affiliated to Anna University.

The state-owned Madras University (1857), which has six campuses in the city, offers more than 230 courses under 87 academic departments of post-graduate teaching and research grouped under 18 schools, covering diverse areas such as sciences, social sciences, humanities, management and medicine along with 121 affiliated colleges and 53 approved research institutions.

Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology (1984), Academy of Maritime Education and Training (1992), Asian College of Journalism (2000).

These, institutions formed the nucleus of recently constituted Tamil Nadu Music and Fine Arts University (TNMFAU) and Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS) respectively.

The Connemara Public Library built in 1890 is one of the four National Depository Centres in India.