The Annamalai University is a unitary, teaching and residential university. It was founded by the munificence of the farsighted and noble hearted philanthropist and patron of letters the late Honble Dr. Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar of Chettinad, Kt, LL.D., D.Litt. He started several colleges and ultimately the University in 1929. Since its inception, it has progressively tried to realize the aims of the noble Founder Pro-Chancellor. After him, his illustrious son Padma Bhushan Dr. Rajah.......

Vidya Knowledge Park (VKP) focuses on the total growth of the young students who fully understand their responsibility of encompassing the physical, emotional, social and cultural needs in addition to fulfilling the academic needs of developing themselves.