The university was established in the year 1966 as Madurai University. In 1978, the name was changed to Madurai Kamaraj University to honorK. Kamaraj, formerChief Minister ofMadras State.[3]
There are 121 colleges and institutions under MKU which include 16 aided colleges, 24 autonomous colleges (including both government and self-financed), 4 constituent colleges, 1 MKU college, 5 MKU evening colleges, 57 self-financed colleges and 14 approved institutions. Currently, the university consists of 77 renowned Departments and 20 renowned Schools as a whole.
Santhosh George Kulangara, is an Indian traveller, television producer, director, broadcaster, editor, publisher and he is the founder and managing director ofSafari TV and also serves as the head ofLabour India Publications, an educational publisher for school children.
K.K. Pillay, eminent Indian historian, headed the Department of History inUniversity of Madras and the first President of South Indian History Congress in the premises of the School of Historical Studies, Madurai Kamaraj University
P.N. Rangarajan, theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Medical Sciences) and N-BIOS awardee, Coconvenor of the lecture workshop onRecent Advances in Biotechnology of Health and Disease (BHD-2011) organized by Madurai Kamaraj University in 2011[12]
Sathees Chukkurumbal Raghavan, theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Biological Sciences), Convenor of the lecture workshop onRecent Advances in Biotechnology of Health and Disease (BHD-2011) organized by Madurai Kamaraj University in 2011[12]
Erwin Bünning, eminent German chronobiologist, invited byM. K. Chandrashekaran toIndia in 1978, to conduct the Biological Oscillation workshop in Madurai Kamaraj University[13]
Dorairajan Balasubramanian, theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Chemical Sciences),[10]Padma Shri awardee and member of the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 (ICGB-2019)' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University[14]
Dipankar Chatterji, theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Biological Sciences),Padma Shri awardee and member of the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 (ICGB-2019)' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University[14][10]
Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain, theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Biological Sciences),Padma Shri awardee and member of the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 (ICGB-2019)' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University[14][10]
Rakesh Bhatnagar, member of the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 (ICGB-2019)' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University[14]
Tapas Kumar Kundu, theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Biological Sciences), N-BIOS awardee and member of the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 (ICGB-2019)' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University[14][10]
Siddhartha Roy, theShanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate (for Biological Sciences) and member of the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 (ICGB-2019)' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University[14][10]
Rakesh Mishra, member of the advisory committee for 'International Conference on Genome Biology 2019 (ICGB-2019)' organized by the School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University[14]
