Guideliness for Admission

The International Relations Office oversees, develops and delivers an effective International Mobility Strategy to increase international student intake. The Office works as a facilitator for foreign student admissions and mentors and supports them at Avinashilingam Institute.

The Office oversees the day-to-day administration of facilitating queries from international students on and off-campus. The Office promotes internationalisation in the campus by complementing and enhancing the academic experiences of all international students, while providing excellent student services to international students who choose to study and intend to study at Avinashilingam Institute.

The university has, in all programmes, separate intake for Children of Indian Workers in Gulf and South-East Asia Countries (CIWGC-SEA). In addition, the Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) and the Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) and Foreign Nationality students can apply separately in all programmes.

1. Visa Requirements

The admissions are open for all the international students to all courses in the Institute, who have proficiency in English and meet the special pre requisites of the Academic Programmes, Disciplines and Courses desired.

2. About International Admission - Procedure

• After scrutiny of the applications for eligibility, the University issues a 'Provisional Admission Letter' for the purpose of obtaining from Indian Consulate/Embassy a 'Student Visa' endorsed to Avinashilingam Institute.

• On obtaining the Student Visa endorsed to Avinashilingam Institute, the students must report for ‘Final Admission’ along with Original Certificates and Course fee as stipulated in the course-wise fee details to the Co-ordinator, Office of International Affairs (OIA),

• When the student reports at the Office of International Affairs with a valid ‘Student Visa’, and original certificates, the admission process will be initiated and a letter of final admission addressed to the Deans of the concerned Schools will be issued.  The candidate shall report to the Dean of the allotted School along with the final admission letter and join the allotted programme. After fulfilling the admission process at the allotted Dean’s Office, the student should get the S certificate (residential permit) issued by the Foreigners Regional Registration Office, Coimbatore.

The application should include the following documents

A letter providing information about previous university studies, expectations and motivations for attending the course, as well as contact information.

A certificate of previous studies and a proof of the current registration at the Institute (a copy of the student card or any other documentation).

• Copies of all the above documents must be submitted to the Office of International Affairs. After receiving applications, they will be processed by the Office of International Affairs which will assist them further, with the formal admission procedure. The selected students will be given a letter of admission from Avinashilingam Institute with which they can apply for study visa through the Indian embassy in their home country.

• All the applications received will be screened by the Office of International Affairs (OIA) based on the availability of elective school slots. The University will decide on the approval/denial of the application.

3. Required Documents

Duly filled in ‘APPLICATION FORM FOR FINAL ADMISSION

• TWO XEROX COPIES OF THE CERTIFICATES + Original Qualification Certificates for verification.

• TWO XEROX COPIES OF PASSPORT + Original Passport for verification.

• TWO XEROX COPIES OF VISA+ Original Visa for verification.

After obtaining student /research visa, the student should report to the Office of International Affairs (OIA) for final admission along with the original certificates. The final admission form should be submitted with one set of Xerox copy of the following documents:

• 10+2 / High School certificate

• Degree/ Pass Certificate of the qualifying examination

• Mark list of qualifying examination

• Student visa

• All International students holding student Visa are required to register with the Foreigners Regional Registration office of the Senior Superintendent of Police within 14 days of Arrival in Coimbatore, OIA will assist and guide the international students through the formalities.