Vision

The vision of Anna University is to be a world class institution by producing professionals with high technical knowledge, professional skills and ethical values, and remain as a preferred partner to the industry and community for their economic and social development through excellence in teaching, research and consultancy. Anna University shall be recognized as a point of reference, a catalyst, a facilitator, a trend setter and a leader in technical education.

Mission

Anna University shall contribute to the educational, economic and social development by

• producing students who are intellectually and technically equipped with well defined knowledge, skills and ethics who are creative thinkers, inspiring leaders and contributing citizens.

• introducing high quality academic and research programmes and providing extension services in cutting edge technologies.

• ensuring a supportive campus climate with dynamic leadership and development opportunities to meet the needs of the students, faculty and staff.

• enhancing academic productivity through induction of quality faculty, accelerated graduation, credit banking, augmented continuing education opportunities and adoption of current technology.

• sharing the intellectual resources and the infrastructural facilities among the academia from other institutions and among the industrial society, funding agencies and government.

• enhancing the collaborative partnership between Industry and Institute for commercializing and transferring the latest technological know-how towards societal development.

• setting up a Global University Network Campus that embodies the ideals of an open, democratic and global society catering to the needs of the global community and satisfying cultural, ethnic and racial diversity.

• expanding global participation spread across continents with the aid of interactive satellite based education and the usage of digital library.

• enriching the national and international character of the University.

• ensuring efficient administrative coordination and effective decision making through necessary reforms and by strategically allocating resources.

• benchmarking against technologically sound global leaders with a view towards continuous improvement.