Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is a multi campus, multidisciplinary private university headquartered at Ettimadai, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Its about page says it has ten campuses across Keralam, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Uttarakhand, and that it is run by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, a charitable organisation founded in 1981. Its beginnings date to 1994, when a School of Engineering was started at Ettimadai, and it became a deemed to be university in January 2003.
The university states a student strength of over 31,000 and more than 2,150 faculty members, and offers more than 300 undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes, from engineering and medical sciences to law and the arts. It was awarded an A++ grade by NAAC in 2023. Its founder and Chancellor is Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, and Dr. P. Venkat Rangan was appointed Vice-Chancellor in 2003.