The Centre for International Affairs (CIA) has been coordinating the bilateral research and academic programmes with overseas Institutions/Universities through Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), Exchange of Faculty/Students, Foreign Language Programmes and conduct of International Joint Seminars/Conferences. At present the University has established academic and research collaborations with more than 55 foreign Universities/Institutions through MoUs. The CIA has Overseas Professor Scheme with Eight Professors from the USA, Germany and Australia. The Overseas Professors have been visiting Anna University Chennai and collaborating with faculty and students

CIA is responsible to take care of the admissions of students under Foreign Nationals (FN), Non-Resident Indians (NRI), and People of Indian Origin (PIO) and Children of Indian Workers in Gulf Countries (CIWGC) in Undergraduate Degree (B.E/B.Tech/B.Arch) and Postgraduate degree (M.E/M.Tech/MBA/MCA/M.Plan/M.Sc) programmes. At present about 565 students are enrolled in these categories. The medium of Instruction for UG and PG programmes is English. For admission to UG programmes the students should have completed twelve years of school education or equivalent and would have studied Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at eleventh and twelfth year of school education.

CIA is organizing International Seminar Series periodically with experts from foreign Universities as resource persons on specific topics of Applied Sciences, Technology and Engineering.

For more Information contact:
The Director, Centre for International Affairs,
Anna University Chennai,
Chennai 600025,
India.
Fax: +91-44-22201169,
Tel: +91-44-22203422,
E-mail: dircia@annauniv.edu.