Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering


Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, popularly known as SSN College of Engineering or simply SSN, is an engineering institution located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is an autonomous college affiliated with Anna University founded by Shiv Nadar. The college is certified to ISO 9001:2000 standard by the National Board of Accreditation.
In March 2018, the college was granted autonomous status by UGC.

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 250-acre campus at Kalavakkam on Rajiv Gandhi Salai in 1998. Nadar took an active role in the college activities, including the gifting of Rs. 1 million worth of HCL shares to the college.
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 and gets filled as Merit and the remaining seats are filled through an aptitude test followed by an interview termed as management quota. Even this is also based on cutoff marks in 12th boards. 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.

Rankings

SSN was ranked 44 among engineering colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2020 and 83 overall.

Notable alumni