Tambaram - Education

Education

Tambaram town has been recorded with a literacy rate of 82% in the year 2001 and this has increased from 75% in the year 1991. Among the literate population, nearly 52% are male literates and the remaining 48% are female literates as per the 2001 census. Generally, the composition of female literates among the female population has increased from 70% (1991) to 78% (2001), which is higher than the growth of male literates from 81% (1991) to 86% (2001).

Some of the notable engineering colleges and business school in Tambaram include:

  • The Madras Christian College
  • Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chrompet (near Tambaram)
  • Sri Sai Ram Engineering college
  • Sri Sairam Institute of Technology
  • Sri Sairam Polytechnic College
  • B. S. Abdur Rahman University (formerly Crescent Engineering College), Vandalur (near Tambaram)
  • Bharath University
  • Prince Dr.K.Vasudevan College of Engineering and Technology
  • Prince Shri Venkateshwara Padmavathi Engineering College
  • Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering
  • GKM College of Engineering & Technology
  • SRM University, Kattankulatthur (near Tambaram)
  • Tagore Engineering College
  • Sri Krishna Engineering College
  • Gopal Ramalingam Memorial College of Engineering
  • Sri Krishna Institute of Technology
  • PERI Institute of Technology
  • RAASI Engineering College

Some of the notable schools which has been serving for the neighbourhood for a long time (more than 50 years) include:

  • Corley Higher Secondary School (adjacent to Madras Christian College) more than 50 years old. in East Tambaram.
  • Christ King Primary and Higher secondary school (girls only school) in East Tambaram.
  • Seva sadhan school in West Tambaram.
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya No.1, Air Force Station

The East Tambaram branch library of the Kancheepuram District Library Authority is located in Gandhi Park, which has been functioning from a building built by the Tambaram municipality for more than five decades. It has 1,290 registered members and gets more than 200 readers daily, but has space for only about 15 people. Opened in July 1957, the library has 38,145 books and subscribes all periodicals, news magazines, weeklies and journals. An amount of 1.7 million was allotted from Tambaram MLA's local area development funds to renovate the building.

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