Saranathan College of Engineering (SCE), Thiruchirappalli was established in 1998. The college is affiliated to Anna University, Chennai.

Saranathan College of Engineering was founded by "Vidya Seva Ratnam", "Guru Seva Mani" Auditor Sri. K. Santhanam in the year 1998. It was so named in respectful memory of his Guru Principal Saranathan, the greatest ever Principal of National College. It is a self financing college approved by AICTE and affiliated to Anna University, Chennai.

The College was temporarily (approx. 2 years) located in the Seshasayee Institute of Technology, thanks to the gracious permission from the Honorary Secretary and Correspondent of that Institution, Er. G. Sundaram and shifted to its current sprawling 40 acre campus to the Chennai - Madurai Expressway at Panjappur on 3rd January 2000 and was formally inaugurated on 19th October 2000, by "Peraasiriyar K Anbazhagan, then Minister of Education, Government of Tamil Nadu.

The college has a current annual intake of 660 students for the 7 branches offered at the undergraduate level and 132 students for the courses offered at the post-graduate level.

With a built up area of 200000 sq.ft, 8 seminar halls and a state of the art library with more than 55688 books and 225 periodicals and journals (both national and international), the college offers the ideal environment for the students to absorv=b and assimilate the top class technical education and professional training offered.

The college has a well equipped Computer centre and has installed internet with 76 Mbps connectivity. The entire college is networked with unique log-in IDs and passwords for each students. The Computer Centre takes great pride in the fact that they have installed and run a dedicated "Cloud Centre".

The Faculty with an outstanding academic background and sound conceptual knowledge of contemporary engineering studies and practices ably complete the process of converting the budding students into employable technocrats.

Thus the faculty is research oriented is evident from the fact that quite a few of them already hold Ph.D degrees and many more are pursuing their Ph.D studies. Thus the University recognizes such talent is obvious when the university bestows the college is a “nodal centre” of the university for their on-going Quality Improvement Circle (QIC). In addition, a few of our faculty members are also a part of the Board of Studies and contribute to the framing of syllabi for the various courses that they have specialized in. They also serve the role of reviewers in reputed journals by show-casing their academic acceptability in the peer community of eminent educationists. That this whole process is completed keeping in mind the College Vision, Mission and Quality policy is an achievement that the Faculty takes pride in.

One method of an objective measurement of the quality of education imparted at the college would be the number of rank holders at the examinations held at the University level. We had 13 students within the top 50 rank holders at the Final University exmaination held in 2009, 20 in the year 2010 and leaped to 57 for the 2011 examinations. This academic excellence reached new heights with 88 students placed within the top 50 ranks in the year 2012 (including three (3) 1st rankers and two (2) second rankers) and 67 students in the year 2013 (including one (1) 1st rankers, two (2) 2nd rankers and two (2) 3rd rankers). To sustain this consistent the excellent academic performance we honour the rank holders by awarding them Gold Medals on the Graduation Day, Class Toppers and Subject toppers are also honoured with cash awards and appreciation certificates.

As part of the process of enhancing the competitive spirit of the students, they are encouraged to actively participate in Inter-Collegiate competitions at national level.

Quite a few prizes, including one for Android programming, have added laurels to our students. As further tools tp arm the students to face the employment environment, Various in-house as well as outsourced courses in Personality and Soft Skills Development, Business English Certificate courses and CCNA courses are conducted. We are also conducting certification courses like Microsoft Technical Associate (MTA) and Cloud Infrastructure and Systems (CIS).

VISION

Impart an inclusive engineering education that beyond being a facilitator for a career and rudimentary skills, equips the students to offer ethically & environmentally conscious solutions to societal issues.

MISSION

Develop the Institution into a Model Self Financing College of Engineering and Technology. Deliver Professional Training to out students with state-of-the art laboratories and convert them into Technocracts of international repute.

1. Create a nurturing, holistic environment of engineering education to facilitate every student realize their full potential.
2. Strive to make the students strong in basic concepts armed with appropriate skills to enhance one’s ability to apply the knowledge and provide solutions to real time issues.
3. Maintain an ambience that facilitates the students to strengthen their ethical value systems.
4. Actively promote R&D and institute-industry interaction.