Central University of Tamil Nadu


Central University of Tamil Nadu was established by an Act of Parliament. The University was inaugurated on 30 September 2009 by the then Union Minister Kapil Sibal who laid the foundation stone. Prof. B.P.Sanjay, Former Director of Indian Institute of Mass Communication and Professor in the Department of Mass Communication, University of Hyderabad, was appointed as the first Vice-Chancellor of this Central University. Presently, the CUTN is functioning from its permanent campus with an area of 516.76 acres.

Schools and Departments

DivisionDepartments
School of Basic and Applied Sciences
  1. Department of Physics
  2. Department of Chemistry
School of Behavioral Sciences
  • Department of Applied Psychology
    • School of Commerce and Business Management
  • Department of Commerce
  • Department of Management
  • Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management
    • School of Communication
  • Department of Media and Communication
  • Department of Library and Information Science
    • School of Earth Sciences
  • Department of Geography
  • Department of Geology
    • School of Education and Training
  • Department of Education
    • School of Legal Studies
  • Department of Law
    • School of Life sciences
  • Department of Life Sciences
  • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
  • Department of Microbiology
  • Department of Horticulture and Floriculture
    • School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics
    • School of Performing and Fine Arts
  • Department of Music
    • School of Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Department of English
  • Department of Tamil
  • Department of Economics
  • Department of Social Work
  • Department of Hindi
  • Department of History
    • School of Technology
  • Department of Materials Science

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    Campus

    The main campus is spread over 500 acres in the two revenue villages of Neelakudi and Nagakudi of the Thiruvarur District and is on a fast track development. The Tamil Nadu government has embarked upon a road widening project that allows for a two way wide road for both the campuses linking both sides of the state highways to Mayiladuthurai-Chennai and Kumbakonam-Chennai. An elevated bridge connects the two campuses that are separated by river Vettar. A Kendriya Vidyalaya was started in the Nagakudi Residential Campus in July 2013 and presently it has classes up to Standard 12. The campus is self-sufficient with ATMs in both the campuses, a BSNL Exchange with Mobile Tower, a post office and an SBI bank branch.
    CUTN has a well-equipped Guest House with catering facilities. In addition to hostel mess, the university also has two cafeterias working during academic sessions.

    Admission

    Admission to various programmes of the CUTN is done through the CENTRAL UNIVERSITIES COMMON ENTRANCE TEST. Every year CUCET is being conducted by a consortium of central universities established by Central Universities Act, 2009.The number of Universities participating in CUCET increases year by year. CUCET-2016 was conducted in 57 centers across the country for admission to various Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Research and Integrated programmes. CUTN received over 80,000 applications in 2019.