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.......

Shobhit Unversity goes beyond the established standards and aims to create a conducive, enabling academic climate to facilitate integration of the younger generation in to logic of the present system and to develop educational means by which youth deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in transforming to a better world.