Annamalai University is a 78 year old, premier, unitary and residential teaching university. Annamalai University today is spread over an extensive campus of about one thousand acres and has the Faculties of Arts, Science, Indian Languages, Engineering and Technology, Education, Fine Arts, Agriculture, Medicine and Dentistry and, in all, they comprise 48 Departments of Study.

The Directorate of Distance Education, Annamalai University, established in 1979 offers three hundred and eighty one different programmes of study under the Regular Stream. It is credited with the largest enrolment in India. National Assessment and Accreditation Council has accredited Annamalai University.

Cosmo Aviation Training School Pvt. Ltd. is a company which has already created a niche market in the segment of training for cabin crew under its branding Flying Cats – The Complete Air Hostess Training School. To carry forward the mission on training a smarter India, the company has ventured into life-style training with its brands – Polished Cats, English Cats and Global School of Beauty.

Global Retail School , in technical association with Bharti Learning Systems, is offering several retail programmes for graduate and undergraduate students. While Bharti Learning will be solely responsible for developing quality content, evaluation and certification on successful completion of the respective programmes, for all students (except those pursuing diploma programme) will be done jointly by Bharti Learning Systems and GRS.