The dreams of its founding fathers took shape in 1984 in the form of
Shanmugha College of Engineering which is now renamed to
Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy [SASTRA]. Sastra University - Thanjavur has carved a place for itself as a Centre for fostering and developing the body, mind and spirit of its students.
Sastra University - Thanjavur is fully committed to this threefold flowering of the students entrusted to its care.
.....Continuing reading Sastra University - Thanjavur blend of academic excellence with real world experience and moral values has earned SASTRA, national recognition. Sastra University - Thanjavur aim is to impart value based higher education turning out good engineers, scientists and researchers who are at the same time good individuals and good citizens in order that they may become useful members of an enlightened humane society.
Objectives of Sastra University - Thanjavur are to become an example institution for higher learning, to offer need based courses in tie-up with industries, to establish Schools of Excellence, to promote research as a tool for social and rural development, to explore the applications of ancient technology and incorporate the same into the syllabus satisfying modern requirements, to provide inter-disciplinary courses of study and research and to allow flexibility in the curricular mix as opted for by the students and user agencies, to establish relations with renowned Indian and Foreign Universities and facilitate mutual exchange programmes.
Sastra University - Thanjavur is situated on the Thanjavur-Tiruchirapalli highway at a distance of 17 km from Thanjavur and 40 km from Tiruchirapalli. The infrastructural facilities at Sastra University - Thanjavur can match with the top-notch standards. The high-tech facilities and fully equipped laboratories stand a testimony to this claim. The library with its multi-crore funded resources, both print and electronic, is a big help to the research and teaching-learning process in this institution in the knowledge era. The library subscribes to online journals databases like Science Direct, IEEE, ACME, ASME, SCE, EBSCO, SCOPUS, CRCnetBASE and DELNET providing full-text access to more than 3,400 scientific, technical and management journals and bibliographic database of more than 17,000 journals.
It also subscribes to PROQUEST Digital Dissertation database which offers access to more than 550,000 Ph.D. dissertations. The annual subscription to Sastra University - Thanjavur online databases value today is over Rs. 54 lakhs. Sastra University - Thanjavur library is the only University in the country to purchase the entire suite of Springer’s electronic collection of full-text books at a cost of Rs.45,00,000. Additionally, SASTRA subscribes to e-Brary and Springer and both offer access to over 45,000 full-text e-books.....Reading in short