The Annamalai University was founded in the year 1929 by the munifecence and single-minded devotion of the far-sighted and noble-hearted philanthropist and patron of letters, the Hon'ble Dr. Rajesh Sir Annamalai Chettiar of Chettinad, Kt., LL.D., D.Litt. Since then, during these 80 years, the Annamalai University has grown into a premier, unitary, residential institution of higher learning and research.
The University today is spread over an extensive campus of about 1000 acres and has the faculties of Arts, Science, Indian languages, Engineering and technology, Education, Fine Arts, Agriculture, Medicine and Dentistry and, in all, they comprise 49 departments of study.