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Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science & Higher Education for Women

Women's Deemed University in India

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Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science & Higher Education for Women is a women's Deemed UniversityinCoimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.^[1] It was started in 1957 by the Avinashilingam Education Trust founded by T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar as Avinashilingam Home Science College for Women which later grow into a university.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Avinashilingam University was a part of University of Madras until it was separated in June 1987.^{[citation needed]} It is now the largest institution in the country for imparting home science education.^[8]

Since 1989 the university has offered two majors and two ancillaries for the undergraduate degree courses. The academic year is divided into two semesters, each semester having a minimum of 100 working days.

The institute has seven schools which comprise the respective domain departments. Each School is functioning under a Dean who is a senior professor. The various schools are:

• School of Physical Sciences and Computational Sciences
• School of Biosciences
• School of Arts and Social Sciences
• School of Home Sciences
• School of Education
• School of Management Studies
• School of Engineering
• School of Allied Health Science

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