About Our Institute
Sona College of Technology traces its roots to Sri Karumuttu Thiagarajan
Chettiar, a renowned industrialist, freedom fighter, and educationist who
established Thiagarajar Polytechnic College in 1958. Established in 1997 by its
Founder Chairman, Sri M. S. Chockalingam, a distinguished textile industrialist
and educationist, Sona College of Technology continues to build on this strong
legacy under our current Chairman, Sri C.Valliappa, and Vice Chairmen, Mr.Chocko
Valliappa and Mr.Thyagu Valliappa.
The college enjoys autonomous status under the Anna University and holds a NAAC
A ++ accreditation with a CGPA of 3.65. It has a high NIRF Ranking falling
within the 11-50 band under the innovation category and 151-200 band under
Engineering Category. As a research and innovation focused institution, the
college prides in its 36 Advanced Research centres which undertake cutting-edge
research across disciplines and have developed advanced systems for high profile
national projects like Chandrayaan-3 and Gaganyaan mission. Sona's global
perspective has resulted in academic collaborations with nationals institutions
like IIT (M) and international universities like Purdue University, Strathclyde,
University of Burgundy, to name a few. The faculty of Sona have been
consistently ranked within the top 3 position under the faculty performance
rating by NPTEL among 7000 colleges since the inception of the ranking in 2018.
Sona NPTEL Local Chapter is rated "AAA" rating (17th Rank) in July-Dec 2024
NPTEL exams among 7,000 colleges in India.
Sona College of Technology has been a highly awarded institution at the national
and state levels. It has been recognized as the 'Best Industry-Linked
Institution', by the Confederation of Indian Industry and All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE-CII), for seven consecutive times. Recently, Sona has
been honoured with the prestigious Outstanding Institution Award-2024 by the
National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR),
Chandigarh. The college has received the IE(I) - Institution of Engineers'
(India) Engineering Education Excellence Award (Silver and Bronze Categories)
for the past three years. Sona stands tall as one of the best institutions for
world class technical education.
If you are interested in learning more about our institution, please contact
us today. We would be happy to discuss your needs and provide you with the
information you need to make an informed decision.
About Department of Humanities and Languages
One of the founding departments of Sona College of Technology, the Department of
Humanities and Languages came into existence along with the establishment of the
college in 1997. The main objective of the department is to develop
communicative competence and performance of the students in English. A team of
well experienced and vibrant English faculty with proven excellence in teaching
and research carries forward the mission of the institution.
Recently, the department has signed an MOU with the University of Complutense,
Madrid to establish a Systemic Functional Linguistics Lab that will serve as a
Centre of Excellence for linguistic research and carry out research in the areas
of discourse analysis, multilingual education, text generation and computational
linguistics and to have students and faculty exchange programmes.
If you are interested in learning more about our institution, please contact
us today. We would be happy to discuss your needs and provide you with the
information you need to make an informed decision.