Bharathidasan University is a public university at Palkalaiperur, Tiruchirappalli, in Tamil Nadu. According to the IAU World Higher Education Database (WHED), it was founded in 1982 under the Bharathidasan University Act 1981 (Act 2 of 1982). The WHED entry, last updated in 2018, lists faculties of arts, Indian and other languages, management, and science, engineering and technology, with 19 schools and 17 centres.
The university’s NIRF 2025 data submission reports 3,083 students in campus UG and PG programmes in 2023-24, plus 409 full-time and 132 part-time PhD scholars. It received Rs 44.03 crore across 73 sponsored research projects in 2023-24, compared with Rs 34.86 crore across 60 projects in 2022-23, and spent Rs 73.97 crore on teaching and non-teaching salaries in 2023-24.