The School of Performing Arts consists of the following Department. 1. Department of Performing Arts Sri Sankaradass Swamigal School of Performing Arts started functioning from the academic year 1988-1989 and has been renamed as School of Performing Arts during the year 2007. The School has come to existence on December 2007 in view of conducting interdisciplinary teaching and research activities in the Performing Arts. The Department also offers M.P.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. Programmes.

The School of Humanities, which became operational in December 2004. All the Departments offer P.G., M.Phil., and Ph.D. programmes. However, the Center for Asian Christian studies offers only M.Phil. and P.G. Diploma in Asian Christian Studies programmes. The School caters to the needs of a large number of students of the University and some of the faculty members of the School have made enormous contributions to their respective disciplines and they are known and well respected in the academic community for their scholarship.

The School of Life Sciences was established in 2004 and comprises of six departments and one center: Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dept. Biotechnology, Dept. Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Dept. Ocean Studies and Marine Biology, Dept. Food Science and Technology, Dept. Microbiology and Centre for Bio informatics.

Department of Food Science and Technology has been started in the academic year 2010. A PG Diploma in Food Safety and Quality Control is also offered since the academic year 2012.

Department of Microbiology has been started in the academic year 2012.

An Inter-University teaching program in Computational Biology has been started in the academic year 2010. The Inter-University teaching program in Computational Biology is upgraded to M.Tech in Computational Biology with the academic year 2014.

Ph.D. Program is offered by all the disciplines under the School of Life Sciences. There are a total of 61 faculty in the School of Life Sciences.
Prof. Anisa Basheer Khan is the Dean School of Life Sciences.

The School is uniquely placed to conduct interdisciplinary teaching and research activities in the physical sciences. The above Departments of the School offer M.Sc., M.Phil., and Ph.D. programmes. The Departments in the School also offer an integrated M.Sc. programme of five years duration in Physics, Chemistry and Applied Geology for the +2 students. All the Departments have distinguished faculty and excellent laboratory and computational facilities. There are more than 30 research scholars engaged in frontline areas of research. A very high percentage of M.Sc. students of the School have cleared national level tests, UGC-CSIR NET and GATE. The students and researchers of the Departments routinely use common facilities like, Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (Lakeshore, USA), UV-VISNIR Spectrophotometer (Carry 5000) and scanning Electron Microscope with Energy Dispersive X-ray (SEM-EDX) Analyzer that are recently augmented, in the Central Instrumentation Facility (CIF). All the Departments of the School are supported by DST-FIST programme and the Department of Chemistry is also supported by UGC-SAP funding. Sophisticated equipments have been procured under these funding and these are extensively used for teaching and research.

The Ramanujan School of Mathematical Sciences comprising of the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics was established on 23.03.04 as per the Academic Ordinances of the Pondicherry University. The School aims at imparting quality education in Mathematics and Statistics, which are realized by the various post graduate study programmes in Mathematics and Statistics offered by the School. All the two departments of the School have distinguished faculty, and well equipped laboratories with excellent computing facilities. Research activities in emerging research disciplines are being carried out in the Departments. About 12 research scholars mentored by experienced supervisors are currently pursuing their research works in these disciplines. Research projects funded by NBHM, DST and UGC add to the credit of the School. The School also paves way for a plethora of employment opportunities to the students by organizing Campus Placement Programmes by inviting various companies.

From the academic year 2007-08, the School offers a five year integrated M.Sc. programme in the three branches of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science . The intake of students for each subject is 16, aggreating  to  a total of 48 for the  five-year integrated M.Sc. programme.

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School of Management is one of the popular Schools of Excellence in the campus primarily focusing on the business related courses since the very inception of this University. This School consists of the following Departments: Department of Management Studies, Department of Commerce, Department of Economics, Department of Tourism Studies, Department of Banking Technology and Department of International Business.

The Department of Management Studies offers M.B.A. & Ph.D. programmes, the Department of Commerce offers M.Com. (Business Finance), M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes. The Department of Economics offers M.A. ( Applied Economics), M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes, the Department of Tourism Studies offers a M.B.A. programme specializing in Tourism, the Department of Banking Technology offers a specialized M.B.A. and Ph.D. programme in Banking Technology and the Department of International Business offers M.B.A. with specialization in International Business and Ph.D. programme.

The School of Management offers the above said programmes with a total placement focus. While the regular M.B.A. students are found getting good placements in leading MNCs and large Public Limited Companies involved in manufacturing, service industry as well as in high profile Software Industry, the M.B.A. (Tourism) students are finding total placement in travel and tourism industries as well as in hospitability business. M.Com. (Business Finance) programme offered by the Department of Commerce has attracted the attention of companies which are involved in Finance and Investment, Fund Management, Stock Broking, Banking and Nonbanking activities.

M.A. Economics students are  in great demand in those organizations involved in policy making such as National Institutes devoted for Economic development, RBI, Government department of Economics & Statistics, etc. M.B.A. Banking Technology degree programme started drawing attention of top leading banks and software companies concentrating on Banking software. The students of the M.B.A. programme of the Department of International Business are finding placement in leading industries in India, including MNCs.

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