Sri Sarada College for women (Autonomous)

Sri Sarada College was started in 1961 as an affiliated college to the University of Madras with two sections of Pre-University class (with eighty students). Later, it has increased in strength to become a First Grade college with twelve under-graduate programmes, seven post-graduate programmes, nine Ph.D. programmes and two Self – Financing P.G. programmes (M.Sc. Data Science and M.Com.). Autonomous status was conferred by the University Grants Commission in the year 1988-1989 under the able guidance of Yatiswari Saradapriya Amba.The College was accredited with Four stars in 2002, re-accredited with ‘B’ Grade (2.94 on a 4 point scale ) in 2008 and re-accredited with ‘A’ Grade in 2014 by NAAC. In the fourth cycle our college was re-accredited with ‘B++’ Grade by NAAC. The foundation stone of Sri Sarada College for women was laid by the Former President of India, Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan on 06.01.1963. Former Prime Minister of India, Sri Rajiv Gandhi opened the Sister Nivedita Auditorium on 01.05.1987