PSG College of Arts and Science
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Motto in English | Knowledge, Love and Work |
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| Type | Private (Government Aided) |
| Established | 1947 |
| Location | , , 11°1′57.36″N 77°2′4.43″E / 11.0326000°N 77.0345639°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | Bharathiar University |
| Website | www |
PSG College of Arts and Science (PSG CAS) is a
History
PSG College of Arts and Science was started in 1947 by the
Courses
This institute offers 43 Undergraduate Programmes, 4 BVoc Programmes, 27 Postgraduate Programmes, 1 Five year Integrated Postgraduate Programme, 3 PG Diploma Programmes, M.Phil and Ph.D Programmes are offered in 25 Disciplines..[3]
The college has a separate faculty of commerce, with a separate block named as "School of Commerce" with a total area of 2.75 lakh sq.ft. It has 85 classrooms, four computer laboratories, and two conference halls. Other than that there are 10 blocks with specific departments, GRD Auditorium, Library hall, three conference hall, Indoor Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton stadium is available and there is a full athlete track ground. Football, Cricket, tennis and Hockey ground is also on the premises.[4][5] Block A covers students of four departments and they are Visual Communication, Psychology, Statistics and Hospitality.
Library
The Library built up area is 24,500 sq.ft. with the seating capacity for about 400 readers. It is well stocked and presently has a collection of over 1,20000 volumes on different subjects. Latest publications in the fields of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Business Studies, Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences are continuously added to the collection to equip the student with a wide range of academic materials. The Library also subscribes about 225 journals of national and international repute. All Prominent national dailies are also subscribed in the library. The College Library is fully automated and provides user services through the computer. Library also has Wi-Fi facility.
Campus life
Wizards and Heartbeat are the annual inter-departmental cultural competitions and Cascall and Euphoria are the annual inter-college cultural competitions. Other festivals include "Gateway", state-level inter-collegiate technical festival by Department of Computer Science. Department of Visual Communication organizes a short film festival, "Pathivugal". Phoenix and LitZeal are the annual inter college literary fests,"Blizzard" inter collegiate BPS fest by Department of Commerce with Business Process Service. Apart from these, other department in the college also organizes festivals, conferences
PSGCAS has various associations such as Mathematics Association, Physics Association, and Chemistry Association organize subject-related competitions and student-run clubs such as Rotaract club, Innopreneurs Club (Innovation + Entrepreneurship), Casétune(Music Club), Drama Club, Eco Club, Face Club, Women's forum, Thinkers Club, Citizen Consumer Club, and Nilamutram.
There are many food joints inside the college.
Student elections happen at the first or third week of June to elect the office members of Manavar Mandram (Students union). Students elect Secretary and Chairman from second year and third year respectively. The students who wish to file nominations for elections should have 60% and no backlogs.[6]
Notable alumni
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The alumni of this college are called CASians.[citation needed] Notable alumni include:
- Farhaan Faasil, Malayalam Cinema Actor
- Theni (Lok Sabha constituency))
- Adam Sinclair, Field Hockey Player
- George Thengummoottil, documentary filmmaker
- Sathyan (Tamil actor)
- Jose K. Mani
- K. A. Manoharan
- Semmalar Annam, Tamil Cinema Actress
- Naadodigal Gopal,Tamil Actor
- Lokesh Kanagaraj, Tamil Cinema Director
References
- ^ "About us, PSG CAS". PSG CAS. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "29 institutes apply for community colleges". Indian. Express. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
- ^ "Courses at PSG CAS". PSG CAS. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
- ^ "inauguration of school of commerce". The Hindu. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "Cutoff marks for arts and science". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
- ^ "PSG boss drama club plans to take part in fest". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
