Rank 12 - Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Bannari Amman Institute of Technology  is an autonomous university affiliated to Anna University. The Department of Biotechnology was established in the year 2003. It offers the full-time four-year BTech program in biotechnology as well as the full-time two-year MTech program in biotechnology. The BTech curriculum provides an equal mix of life sciences, chemical engineering, and bioprocess engineering subjects and labs. The department has been recognized by Anna University as a collaborative research center for the PhD program. Laboratory facilities offered include areas like biochemistry, bioorganic chemistry, microbiology, chemical engineering, cell biology, bioprocess engineering, molecular biology, genetic engineering, immunology, downstream processing, bioinformatics, instrumental analysis. During summer vacation, the department of biotechnology, has been sending third and fourth semester students for summer internship at Syngenta Seeds AB, Sweden. The trainees acquire research skills in various areas of seed pathology, germplasm enhancement, marker-assisted breeding, genetic engineering, genomics, biochemistry and cell biology.