Established in 1966, Madurai Kamaraj University was established in 1966 as a State University. Later it attained the status of University with Potential for Excellence for ‘Teaching, Research and Outreach’ In the “SWACHHTA” Ranking of Higher Educational Institutions in the Country, the HRD Ministry awarded Second Rank to the University in the category of Government Institutions
The University offers 44 Post Graduate, 40 M.Phil., 57 Ph.D programmes through its 20 Schools comprising 77 Departments. School of Journalism and Mass communication is among them.
I was invited to serve in its board of studies for Journalism and Mass communications for a period of 3 years between 1997 and 2000
