Bharathidasan University established in February 1982, and was named after the great revolutionary Tamil Poet, Bharathidasan (1891-1968).The University's main Campus was initially located in a sprawling area of over 1000 acres in Palkalaiperur. Also, the University has a downtown campus at Khajamalai, which housed originally the Autonomous Post-Graduate Centre of the University of Madras at Tiruchirappalli. The year 2006-07 is the Silver Jubilee year for this great and vibrant University.