Why Chennai families start here
Chennai's OMR IT corridor and the campuses around TIDEL Park have quietly made the city a serious engineering town. From Velachery to Sholinganallur, the industry your child will grow into is right here. We build for that: real skills that survive an interview or a first internship, not just a certificate to frame.
Tamil Nadu is the one big state where an engineering seat turns on school marks instead of a coaching-driven entrance exam. TNEA builds its merit list from Class 12 marks alone, reduced to 200 — Maths 100, Physics 50, Chemistry 50 — and normalises every other board against the Tamil Nadu State Board. Chennai has taught engineering since 1794, when the College of Engineering, Guindy began life as a School of Survey with eight students near Fort St. George.
Whether your child is in a Tamil Nadu State Board, CBSE, ICSE or IGCSE school — the kind that feed IIT Madras, Anna University and SRM — the plan is the same: start at the right level, build something real, and keep the momentum going.