Venkateswara nagar, Panjappur,Tiruchirappalli-620007
(Affiliated to Anna University-Chennai)



Saranathan College of Engineering was founded by “Vidya Seva Ratnam”, “Guru Seva Mani” Auditor Sri. K. Santhanam in the year 1998. It was so named in respectful memory of his Guru Principal Saranathan, the greatest ever Principal of National College. It is a self financing college approved by AICTE and affiliated to Anna University, Chennai.The college was temporarily (approx. 2 years) located in the Seshasayee Institute of Technology, thanks to the gracious permission from the Honorary Secretary and Correspondent of that Institution, Er. G. Sundaram and shifted to its current sprawling 40 acre campus on the Chennai – Madurai Expressway at Panjappur on 3rd January 2000 and was formally inaugurated on 19th October 2000, by “Peraasiriyar K Anbazhagan, the then Minister of Education, Government of Tamil Nadu.The college has a current annual intake of 660 students for the 7 branches offered at the undergraduate level and 132
If Columbus had not discovered America, someoneelse would have done it sooner or later. If Vascodagama had not rounded the Cape of Good Hope and found a sea route to India, some other sailor would have done it. But if Shakespeare had not been born, no one could have written `Hamlet’. If Kalidasa had not been born, no one would have produced `Sakuntala’. Similarly if Santhanam had not been born no one would have founded Saranathan College of Engineering or Shrimati Indira Gandhi College. The campus of the Engineering College would have been a vast tract of open space with free vegetation and the campus of Shrimati Indira Gandhi College would have remained a stretch of undulated terrain with dilapidated buildings.Just imagine a Trichy without these two colleges and the massive and lovely Blocks of Buildings they contain! The setting up and nurturing of these institutions is precisely the contribution of Santhanam to the world of Education. Long after his earthly existence ceases to be these institutions will live and proclaim
Impart an inclusive engineering education that beyond being a facilitator for a career and rudimentary skills, equips the students to offer ethically & environmentally conscious solutions to societal issues. Develop the Institution into a Model Self Financing College of Engineering and Technology. Deliver professional Training to our students with State of the art Laboratories and converting them into Technocrats of international repute. Create a nurturing, holistic environment of engineering education to facilitate every student realize their full potential. Strive to make the students strong in basic concepts armed with appropriate skills to enhance one’s ability to apply the knowledge to provide solutions to real time issues. Maintain an ambience that facilitates the students to strengthen their ethical value systems. Actively promote R&D and institute-industry interaction.
From 2005, we are a part of the Campus Connect Program offered by Infosys – an organization that has offered placements to a large number of our graduates. In a recent statistical presentation Infosys have stated that 89.4% of the Saranathan students who joined them are in the top performance band out of which 54.2% fall under very high performance band. As part of our ongoing process of enlarging our Industry-Academia Interaction, our departmental HOD’s constantly work to enter into MOUs with corporate houses that lead to better opportunities for our students to get in-plant training, corporate project work possibilities, research programs and finally suitable placements in those reputed organisations. The college is one among the 50 institutions hand-picked by the Government of Tamil Nadu to run the Entrepreneurship Development Initiative. Thanks to our membership and active participation in various professional bodies like ICTACT, CII etc our college is able to host to some very respected and leading personalities in various fields. The list of dignitaries who have graced our institution reads like a “who’s who” in the various professional facets of our country. Some of those memories are available for you to glance in our gallery. Students are encouraged to participate in the in-house NSS, Youth Red Cross and other such activities to foster a feeling of “social responsibility” amongst them. Few of those memories are available for you to glance in our gallery.












With quality education and refinig technologies Saranathan College of Engineering has
come forward extend a lot of facilities to the students.





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