The Government Arts College is more than 160 years old situated at the heart of Coimbatore city. The beginning was humble. What started as a vernacular school, grew from strength to strength. Today, there are 4454 learners, mostly from the rural areas, working class and weaker sections of society. Besides, female students constitute more than 30%. The institution was conferred autonomous status in the year 1987-88.
The college offers 19 Under Graduate programmes, 15 Post.......
Maitreyi College, a constituent College of the University of Delhi, was founded in 1967 by Delhi Administration. The College community is proud to bear the name of Maitreyi, who was an eminent scholar of the Vedic period who was the wife of sage Yajnavalakya. Maitreyi chose knowledge over worldly possessions, when asked by her husband to make a choice between the two; the dialogue between Maitreyi and Yajnavalakya in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad shows her as an empowered woman,.......