Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, commonly called Amrita University, is a private deemed university in India with nineteen constituent schools spread over ten campuses in Coimbatore, Amritapuri, Kochi, Bengaluru, Amaravati, Chennai, Faridabad, Mysore, Nagercoil and Haridwar.阿米塔大学（Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham，常称 Amrita University）是印度一所私立自治大学，下设 19 个学院，分布于哥印拜陀、阿姆里塔普里、科钦、班加罗尔、阿马拉瓦蒂、金奈、法里达巴德、迈索尔、纳盖尔科伊尔与哈里德瓦尔 10 个校区。

It is headquartered at Ettimadai in Coimbatore and is run by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, the humanitarian organisation of its founder and chancellor, the spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi, which also runs schools, hospitals and social programmes across India.该校总部位于哥印拜陀的埃蒂马代，由其创办人兼校监、精神领袖玛塔·阿姆里塔南达玛伊所创的慈善机构玛塔·阿姆里塔南达玛伊基金会管理，该基金会还在印度各地开办学校、医院与社会项目。

Amrita holds an A++ grade from NAAC, was ranked seventh among Indian universities by NIRF in 2024, and sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and the 651-700 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校获 NAAC 最高 A++ 评级，2024 年被印度国家机构排名框架列为全国大学第 7，并位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名 1201-1400 区间与 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名 651-700 区间。

History

• The university traces its origin to 1994, when Mata Amritanandamayi opened the Amrita School of Engineering at Ettimadai village near Coimbatore as a college affiliated to Anna University.该校源于 1994 年，玛塔·阿姆里塔南达玛伊在哥印拜陀附近的埃蒂马代村创办阿米塔工程学院，作为安娜大学下属学院。
• The institution is managed by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, an international humanitarian organisation whose headquarters are at Amritapuri in Kollam district, Kerala.学校由国际人道主义组织玛塔·阿姆里塔南达玛伊基金会管理，该组织总部位于喀拉拉邦科拉姆县的阿姆里塔普里。
• In 1996 the Amrita School of Business was started on the Coimbatore campus, the first of what later became a network of business schools across six campuses.1996 年，阿米塔商学院在哥印拜陀校区成立，日后发展为覆盖六个校区的商学院网络。
• On 17 May 1998 the Amrita School of Medicine and the 1,300-bed Amrita Hospital opened at Ponekkara near Edapally in Kochi, inaugurated by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.1998 年 5 月 17 日，阿米塔医学院与拥有 1,300 张床位的阿米塔医院在科钦埃达帕利附近的波内卡拉启用，由总理阿塔尔·比哈里·瓦杰帕伊揭幕。
• In 2002 two further campuses opened with engineering and business schools, one urban campus in Bengaluru and one rural campus at Amritapuri, both then affiliated to state universities.2002 年又开设两个校区，均设工程与商学院，一为班加罗尔城市校区，一为阿姆里塔普里乡村校区，当时均隶属于邦立大学。
• In 2003 the University Grants Commission granted deemed-university status to the institution, with all its campuses and schools as constituents, and it took the name Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.2003 年，印度大学拨款委员会授予该校自治大学地位，各校区与学院均成为其组成部分，学校同时启用阿米塔大学这一名称。
• The Amrita School of Biotechnology was established in September 2004 and later became a Centre of Relevance and Excellence in biomedical technology under the Department of Science and Technology.阿米塔生物技术学院于 2004 年 9 月成立，后成为印度科技部生物医学技术领域的卓越与相关中心。
• In 2008 the first batch of MBBS students graduated from the Kochi medical school, with the ceremony presided over by former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.2008 年，科钦医学院首届医学本科生毕业，毕业典礼由前总统阿卜杜勒·卡拉姆主持。
• An extension campus with a school of agricultural sciences was started at Arasampalayam in Coimbatore in 2017, widening the university's offer into agriculture and food systems.2017 年，学校在哥印拜陀的阿拉桑帕拉亚姆设立农业科学学院延伸校区，将学科版图拓展至农业与食品体系。
• In 2019 an engineering school campus opened at Vengal in Chennai, giving the university a presence in Tamil Nadu's largest city.2019 年，工程校区在金奈文加尔启用，使该校进入泰米尔纳德邦最大城市。
• In 2020 the university entered the top 200 of the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings, its first strong showing in that table.2020 年，该校首次进入泰晤士高等教育年轻大学排名前 200，在这一榜单上表现亮眼。
• A full campus at Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh opened in 2021, and the university also launched Amrita Online, its UGC-entitled online degree division, in the same year.2021 年，安得拉邦阿马拉瓦蒂的完整校区启用，同年学校还推出获大学拨款委员会认可的在线学位部门 Amrita Online。
• In 2022 Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Faridabad medical campus and the 2,000-bed Amrita Hospital in Haryana, the university's second healthcare campus.2022 年，总理纳伦德拉·莫迪为哈里亚纳邦法里达巴德医学校区与拥有 2,000 张床位的阿米塔医院揭幕，这是该校第二个医疗校区。
• In 2023 Amrita was ranked among the world's top 50 in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings and first among Indian universities in that assessment.2023 年，该校跻身泰晤士高等教育影响力排名全球前 50，并在该评估中位列印度高校第一。
• A new campus at Erachakulam in Nagercoil was started in 2024 after the university acquired the campus of Sun College of Engineering and Technology.2024 年，学校收购太阳工程技术学院校园后，在纳盖尔科伊尔的埃拉查库拉姆设立新校区。
• NIRF 2024 placed Amrita seventh among universities and eighteenth in the overall category, the highest position it had then reached in the national framework.2024 年国家机构排名框架将阿米塔列为大学第 7、综合第 18，这是该校当时在该框架中的最高位次。
• In 2025 the university opened a multidisciplinary STEM campus at Haridwar in Uttarakhand, its tenth campus and its first in the Himalayan state.2025 年，学校在北阿坎德邦哈里德瓦尔开设多学科理工校区，这是其第十个校区，也是首次进入喜马拉雅地区。
• Also in 2025 Amrita Online introduced MBA specialisations in business analytics, financial technology and ESG in academic partnership with the consultancy Grant Thornton.同样在 2025 年，Amrita Online 与咨询公司格兰特·桑顿合作，推出商业分析、金融科技与环境社会治理三个工商管理硕士方向。
• From a single engineering college in 1994 the institution has grown into ten campuses and nineteen schools in six Indian states, with central administration and uniform academic standards.从 1994 年的一所工学院起步，该校已发展为遍布印度六个邦的 10 个校区、19 个学院，实行集中管理与统一学术标准。
• As of 2023 the university reported more than 2,000 faculty members and over 30,000 students, a scale reached in less than three decades.截至 2023 年，该校报告拥有 2,000 余名教师与 30,000 余名学生，这一规模在不到三十年内实现。

Academics

• Amrita offers more than 300 undergraduate, postgraduate, integrated, dual-degree and doctoral programmes across engineering, medicine, management, architecture, natural sciences, Ayurveda, agriculture, commerce, law, media and the humanities.阿米塔开设 300 多个本科、研究生、本硕连读、双学位与博士项目，覆盖工程、医学、管理、建筑、自然科学、阿育吠陀、农业、商学、法学、媒体与人文学科。
• Engineering is taught at seven of the ten campuses, in departments of computer science, electronics and communication, electrical and electronics, artificial intelligence, mechanical, civil, chemical and aerospace engineering.工程学科在 10 个校区中的 7 个开设，系科包括计算机科学、电子与通信、电气与电子、人工智能、机械、土木、化工与航空航天工程。
• Admission to B.Tech programmes is based on the Amrita Engineering Entrance Examination, the JEE Main test and SAT scores for non-resident Indian applicants, while M.Tech entry uses the GATE examination.本科工程录取依据阿米塔工程入学考试、印度联合入学考试主试以及面向海外印度申请者的 SAT 成绩，硕士工程则采用 GATE 考试成绩。
• The two healthcare campuses in Kochi and Faridabad run schools of medicine, dentistry, health sciences, nursing, pharmacy, Ayurveda and physiotherapy, and award MBBS, BDS, MD, MS, DM and MCh degrees.科钦与法里达巴德两个医疗校区设有医学、牙科、健康科学、护理、药学、阿育吠陀与物理治疗学院，授予医学学士、牙科学士、医学博士、外科硕士、高级医学博士与高级外科硕士等学位。
• The Amrita School of Business, founded in 1996, offers an AACSB-accredited residential MBA and a dual MS in information technology and MBA with the State University of New York at Buffalo.创办于 1996 年的阿米塔商学院提供获 AACSB 认证的住校工商管理硕士，并与纽约州立大学布法罗分校合办信息技术硕士与工商管理硕士双学位。
• The School of Biotechnology, set up in 2004, offers B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in biotechnology and microbiology plus an M.Sc. in bioinformatics, and was chosen by DBT-BIRAC and the Gates Foundation among India's top six sanitation innovators.2004 年成立的生物技术学院开设生物技术与微生物学本硕课程及生物信息学硕士，并被印度生物技术部与盖茨基金会选为全国六家卫生创新机构之一。
• The School of Law in Coimbatore offers five-year integrated B.A. LL.B. and B.B.A. LL.B. degrees and an LL.M., and the School of Architecture awards a five-year B.Arch. approved by the Council of Architecture.哥印拜陀法学院开设五年制文学法学士与工商管理法学士双学位及法学硕士，建筑学院则授予获印度建筑委员会认可的五年制建筑学学士。
• Arts, humanities and mass communication are taught at Coimbatore, Kochi, Mysore and Amritapuri, with degrees in English literature, visual media, journalism, animation and communication design.人文、艺术与大众传播在哥印拜陀、科钦、迈索尔与阿姆里塔普里开设，学位涵盖英语文学、视觉媒体、新闻学、动画与传播设计。
• The School of Sciences teaches mathematics, physics, chemistry, data science, environmental science, food science and computing, while the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences covers psychology, cognitive science, economics and social work.理学院教授数学、物理、化学、数据科学、环境科学、食品科学与计算，社会与行为科学学院则涵盖心理学、认知科学、经济学与社会工作。
• Amrita Online, launched in 2021, offers UGC-entitled B.Com., BBA, MBA, M.Com. and MCA degrees and reports students in more than 50 countries and all 28 Indian states.2021 年推出的 Amrita Online 提供获大学拨款委员会认可的商学学士、工商管理学士、工商管理硕士、商学硕士与计算机应用硕士，学生遍布 50 多个国家与印度全部 28 个邦。
• The Kochi school of nanotechnology offers M.Tech. degrees in nanomedicine, molecular medicine, nanotechnology and renewable energy, while the Faridabad school of health sciences teaches artificial intelligence in medical engineering.科钦纳米技术学院开设纳米医学、分子医学、纳米技术与可再生能源硕士课程，法里达巴德健康科学学院则教授医学工程中的人工智能。
• The School of Commerce in Coimbatore, Kochi, Mysore and Amritapuri offers B.Com., BBA and M.Com. degrees in accounting, taxation and finance, and the arts schools award BA, MA and PhD degrees in English literature.哥印拜陀、科钦、迈索尔与阿姆里塔普里的商学院开设会计、税务与金融方向的商学学士、工商管理学士与商学硕士，人文学院则授予英语文学学士、硕士与博士学位。
• The university's two hospitals, with 1,300 beds in Kochi and 2,000 in Faridabad, serve as teaching hospitals for more than a thousand medical and nursing students.该校两所医院分别在科钦设 1,300 张床位、在法里达巴德设 2,000 张床位，为上千名医学与护理学生提供教学医院支持。
• Research is organised through more than 70 interdisciplinary centres of excellence and over 500 active projects, spanning biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials, artificial intelligence and public health.科研通过 70 多个跨学科卓越中心与 500 多个在研项目组织，覆盖生物技术、纳米技术、材料、人工智能与公共卫生。
• The university reports more than 16,000 published research papers, over USD 100 million in research funding and more than 150 granted patents.该校报告已发表研究论文 16,000 余篇，获研究经费逾 1 亿美元，获批专利 150 余项。
• In 2024 twenty-seven Amrita researchers were listed among the world's top 2 per cent of scientists by Stanford University, up from twenty-two in 2023.2024 年，该校 27 名研究者入选斯坦福大学评选的全球前 2% 科学家，较 2023 年的 22 人有所增加。
• The Amrita School of Medicine was the first institute in India to be accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers, and its laboratories are accredited by NABL.阿米塔医学院是印度首家获国家医院与医疗提供者认证委员会认证的机构，其实验室亦获国家检测与校准实验室认可委员会认证。
• The university's B.Tech and B.Pharm programmes are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation, and its business school holds AACSB accreditation.该校工程学士与药学学士项目获国家认证委员会认证，商学院则持有 AACSB 认证。
• Teaching is organised through a dean for each faculty and a principal for each campus school, with directorates handling examinations, admissions, rankings, patents, library services and placements.教学按学部设院长、按校区学院设院长，另设多个总监部门负责考试、招生、排名、专利、图书馆服务与就业安置。

Campus

• The headquarters and oldest campus are at Ettimadai in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, at about 11.01 degrees north and 76.97 degrees east, on the road towards the Palakkad gap.校本部与历史最久的校区位于泰米尔纳德邦哥印拜陀的埃蒂马代，坐标约为北纬 11.01 度、东经 76.97 度，地处通往帕拉卡德山口的公路上。
• The ten campuses are spread across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Uttarakhand, and all are off-campuses of the same university under section 3 of the UGC Act.10 个校区分布于泰米尔纳德、喀拉拉、卡纳塔克、安得拉、哈里亚纳与北阿坎德六个邦，按大学拨款委员会法第 3 条均属同一所大学的校外校区。
• The Coimbatore campus houses the main engineering school, the business school, the biotechnology school and an Olympic-standard swimming pool, and hosts the annual Anokha technology festival.哥印拜陀校区设有主工程学院、商学院、生物技术学院与一座奥运标准泳池，并承办一年一度的 Anokha 科技节。
• The Kochi campus at Ponekkara near Edapally contains the medical school, dental school, nursing school and the 1,300-bed Amrita Hospital, the university's first healthcare campus.科钦校区位于埃达帕利附近的波内卡拉，包含医学院、牙科学院、护理学院与拥有 1,300 张床位的阿米塔医院，是该校首个医疗校区。
• The Faridabad campus in Haryana, opened in 2022, pairs a medical school with a 2,000-bed hospital and a school of health sciences teaching artificial intelligence in medical engineering.2022 年启用的哈里亚纳邦法里达巴德校区将医学院、2,000 张床位的医院与开设医学工程人工智能方向的健康科学学院结合在一起。
• The Amritapuri campus in Kollam district, Kerala, is the rural campus opened in 2002 and also hosts the headquarters of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math that runs the university.喀拉拉邦科拉姆县的阿姆里塔普里校区是 2002 年启用的乡村校区，同时是管理该校的玛塔·阿姆里塔南达玛伊基金会总部所在地。
• The Bengaluru campus, opened in 2002, is the university's urban campus and concentrates on engineering, business and computing programmes for working professionals.2002 年启用的班加罗尔校区是该校的城市校区，侧重面向在职人员的工程、商学与计算项目。
• Newer campuses at Vengal in Chennai, Amaravati, Erachakulam in Nagercoil and Haridwar were added between 2019 and 2025, each built around an engineering or multidisciplinary school.金奈文加尔、阿马拉瓦蒂、纳盖尔科伊尔埃拉查库拉姆与哈里德瓦尔等新校区于 2019 至 2025 年间陆续设立，各以一个工程或多学科学院为核心。
• The Mysore campus, centred on arts, commerce and social sciences, and the Amaravati campus complete a network in which every campus shares the same examination and admission systems.以人文、商学与社会科学为主的迈索尔校区与阿马拉瓦蒂校区共同构成一个网络，各校区共用同一套考试与招生制度。

Reputation

• Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is placed in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, a table that reports universities in broad bands rather than exact positions.阿米塔大学位列 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名 1201-1400 区间，该榜单以区间而非精确名次公布大学位次。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it in the 651-700 band, the strongest of its global rankings and well above its QS band.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入 651-700 区间，这是其全球排名中最好的一项，远高于 QS 区间。
• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 it is ranked 2,116th, while it did not enter the Shanghai ARWU 2026 main table.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球最佳大学排名中该校位列第 2,116，但未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
• NIRF 2024 ranked Amrita seventh among universities and eighteenth overall in India, and placed it 23rd in engineering, eighth in medicine, 28th in management, 13th in pharmacy and 14th in dentistry.2024 年国家机构排名框架将阿米塔列为印度大学第 7、综合第 18，并在工程列第 23、医学第 8、管理第 28、药学第 13、牙科第 14。
• In the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2023 the university reached the world's top 50 and ranked first in India, reflecting its work on sustainable development goals.在 2023 年泰晤士高等教育影响力排名中，该校进入全球前 50 并位居印度第一，体现其在可持续发展目标方面的工作。
• NAAC awarded the university its highest A++ grade, and its business school, engineering programmes and hospital hold AACSB, NBA and NABH accreditation respectively.NAAC 授予该校最高 A++ 评级，其商学院、工程项目与医院分别持有 AACSB、NBA 与 NABH 认证。
• OpenAlex indexes 41,340 research works and 1,196,602 citations for the university, by far the largest output among the institutions in this ranking band.OpenAlex 收录该校 41,340 篇研究成果与 1,196,602 次引用，在本排名区间的院校中产出规模最大。
• Earlier rankings include the 801-1000 band of the QS World University Rankings 2020 and 168th in the QS BRICS ranking, while THE placed it in the 601-800 band in its twelfth edition.该校早前曾位列 2020 年 QS 世界大学排名 801-1000 区间、QS 金砖国家排名第 168，泰晤士高等教育则在其第 12 版排名中将其列入 601-800 区间。
• The university's medical school and hospital give it a strong reputation in health sciences, and its Coimbatore engineering school is among the largest private engineering educators in Tamil Nadu.医学院与附属医院使该校在健康科学领域享有较强声誉，其哥印拜陀工程学院则是泰米尔纳德邦规模最大的私立工程教育机构之一。
• Its research funding of more than USD 100 million and 150-plus patents underpin a reputation that rests on applied science as much as on teaching.逾 1 亿美元的研究经费与 150 多项专利，使该校声誉既建立在教学之上，也建立在应用科学之上。

Student life

• The university has no Latin motto, and its founding trust expresses the institution's purpose through the Sanskrit invocation Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu, meaning may all beings be happy.该校没有拉丁校训，其创办基金会以梵语祝祷「Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu」（愿一切众生快乐）表达办学宗旨。
• The Coimbatore campus holds Anokha, an annual technology festival at which students present projects in robotics, coding, electronics and design to visiting schools and companies.哥印拜陀校区每年举办 Anokha 科技节，学生向到访的学校与企业展示机器人、编程、电子与设计项目。
• Amritapuri holds the Vidyuth multi-festival, Bengaluru hosts Dastaan and Chennai runs Tantrotsav, making each major campus home to its own annual cultural and technical festival.阿姆里塔普里举办 Vidyuth 综合节，班加罗尔举办 Dastaan，金奈举办 Tantrotsav，各主要校区均有自己的年度文化科技节。
• Team Bi0s, the cyber-security group of the Amritapuri computer science students, competes in hacking contests and has become one of India's best-known student security teams.阿姆里塔普里计算机系学生组成的网络安全团队 Bi0s 参加各类黑客竞赛，已成为印度知名的学生安全团队之一。
• Every campus runs academic and extracurricular clubs, and the university's directorate for student affairs and anti-ragging oversees their activities and campus welfare.各校区均设有学术与课外社团，学校的学生事务与反霸凌部门负责监督其活动与校园福利。
• All campuses provide indoor and outdoor sports facilities, gyms and synthetic playing fields, and the Coimbatore campus has an Olympic-standard swimming pool.各校区均配有室内外运动设施、健身房与人造草坪球场，哥印拜陀校区还拥有奥运标准泳池。
• Amrita Online serves students in all 28 Indian states and more than 50 countries, giving the university a distributed student community beyond its ten physical campuses.Amrita Online 服务印度全部 28 个邦与 50 多个国家的学生，使该校在 10 个实体校区之外拥有分布式的学生社群。
• With more than 30,000 students and 2,000 faculty, the university maintains a predominantly residential campus culture in Coimbatore and Amritapuri and a commuter culture in Bengaluru and Chennai.该校拥有 30,000 余名学生与 2,000 名教师，哥印拜陀与阿姆里塔普里以住校文化为主，班加罗尔与金奈则以走读为主。

Notable people

• Mata Amritanandamayi founded the Amrita School of Engineering in 1994 and serves as chancellor of the university that grew from it.玛塔·阿姆里塔南达玛伊于 1994 年创办阿米塔工程学院，并担任由其发展而来的阿米塔大学校监。
• P. Venkat Rangan is the university's vice-chancellor and has led its academic expansion from a single campus to a ten-campus network.P. Venkat Rangan 任该校副校长，主导其从一个校区扩展为十个校区的学术扩张。
• Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri serves as president of the university's board of management, with Swami Abhayamritananda Puri as pro-chancellor.斯瓦米·阿姆里塔斯瓦鲁帕南达·普里任该校管理委员会主席，斯瓦米·阿拜阿姆里塔南达·普里任副校监。
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee, then Prime Minister of India, inaugurated the Kochi medical school and hospital on 17 May 1998.时任印度总理阿塔尔·比哈里·瓦杰帕伊于 1998 年 5 月 17 日为科钦医学院与医院揭幕。
• Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, inaugurated the Faridabad medical campus and its 2,000-bed hospital in 2022.印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪于 2022 年为法里达巴德医学校区及其 2,000 张床位的医院揭幕。
• A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India and a rocketry scientist, presided over the first MBBS graduation ceremony at Kochi in 2008.印度前总统、火箭科学家阿卜杜勒·卡拉姆于 2008 年主持科钦首届医学本科生毕业典礼。
• Kailash Satyarthi, winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, received an honorary doctorate from Amrita, one of only two the university has awarded.2014 年诺贝尔和平奖得主凯拉什·萨蒂亚尔蒂获阿米塔名誉博士学位，这是该校仅有的两项名誉学位之一。
• Jeffrey Sachs, the Columbia University economist, is the other honorary doctorate recipient, recognised for his work on sustainable development.哥伦比亚大学经济学家杰弗里·萨克斯是另一位名誉学位获得者，因其在可持续发展领域的工作而受表彰。
• RJ Balaji, a Tamil radio presenter, commentator and actor, is an alumnus of the university.泰米尔语电台主持人、评论员与演员 RJ Balaji 是该校校友。
• Lijomol Jose, a Malayalam film actress known for the film Jai Bhim, studied at Amrita.因电影《Jai Bhim》闻名的马拉雅拉姆语女演员利乔莫尔·何塞曾在阿米塔就读。
• Muhammed Muhsin, a politician of the Communist Party of India, is also counted among the university's alumni.印度共产党政治人物穆罕默德·穆赫辛亦被列为该校校友。