Established 1996 President Kala Vijayakumar Phone 044 2746 9700 Founded 1996 Number of students 4,000 | Principal Dr.Salivahanan Chairperson Shiv Nadar | |
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Type Engineering college, College of Computer Applications and College of Business Management Dean K. Kasthuri and P. Ramasamy Notable alumni Ravichandran Ashwin, Murugan Ashwin, Masha Nazeem Similar Anna University, SRM University, Sri Venkateswara College o, St Joseph's College o, Sathyabama University Profiles | ||
Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering (SSNCE), popularly known as SSN, is an engineering institution located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. The college is certified to ISO 9001:2000 standard by the National Board of Accreditation.
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History
Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering was started in 1996 by Shiv Nadar. The college was opened in 1996 at a temporary location in Thoraipakkam in the suburbs of Chennai, Tamil Nadu as an affiliate of Anna University. It later moved to a 1 square kilometre campus at Kalavakkam (Thiruporur Panchayat) on Rajiv Gandhi Salai (Old Mahabalipuram Road) in 1998.
In association with Carnegie Mellon University, the SSN School of Advanced Software Engineering was started in 2001.
Admissions
Admissions into all courses are done through merit and management basis. A certain percentage of seats go to the Anna University Single Window System (AU SWS) and gets filled as Merit and the remaining seats are filled through an exam followed by interview termed as management quota. This percentage may vary each year. Similarly for Masters courses seats are filled on the basis of TANCET scores by AU SWS and separate exam.
Ranking
Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering has been ranked as the 52nd best Engineering College of India in the Edu-Rand Rankings of 2015. The survey was done jointly by Edu, an Indian company and Rand Corporation, a non-profit American thinktank.