Shanmugha Arts Science Technology & Research Academy

Shanmugha Arts Science Technology & Research Academy, in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, has 11,343 students and 847 teaching staff. In NIRF 2025, it was ranked #40 in Engineering (score 58.02 out of 100), #11 in Law (score 65.29 out of 100), and #51 in the Overall category (score 55.32 out of 100), putting it among institutes with a Law programme that scores better than its Engineering one nationally.

In 2023-24, of 1,823 Engineering undergraduates (4-year), 1,621 were placed, with a median salary of 7.6 LPA -- figures that have stayed fairly steady over the previous two years (1,806 of 1,806 graduated placed in 2022-23, 1,548 of 1,751 in 2021-22, both at a median of 7.5-7.6 LPA). The 5-year Law UG programme placed 101 of 124 graduates in 2023-24 at a median salary of 5.6 LPA, up from 4.6 LPA in 2022-23 and 4.5 LPA in 2021-22.

Smaller cohorts show more variation: the 2-year Engineering PG programme placed 10 of 20 graduates in 2023-24 at a median salary of 5.5 LPA, down from 33 of 45 the year before, though the salary held steady. The 3-year Overall UG programme placed 96 of 184 graduates in 2023-24 at a median salary of 3.8 LPA, an improvement on 58 of 120 placed at 3.3 LPA in 2021-22.