Dr. Ambedkar Government Arts College

Dr. Ambedkar Government Arts College is a co-educational government college at Vyasarpadi in North Chennai, affiliated to the University of Madras. The Government of Tamil Nadu located a lake site south of the Madras-Calcutta national highway for it in 1971, its foundation brick was laid on 1 August 1972, and the college was established in 1973-74. The college's AQAR 2022-23 records UGC 2(f) and 12(B) status and autonomous status conferred on 6 June 2007. NAAC accredited it with grade B (CGPA 2.66) in 2016, valid from 17 March 2016 to 16 March 2021. NIRF 2025 places it in the 201-300 rank band of the College category.

The AQAR 2022-23 lists 16 UG, 8 PG, 6 M.Phil. and 7 Ph.D. programmes. UG options are B.A. in Defence and Strategic Studies, Economics, English and Tamil; B.Sc. in ten subjects including Computer Science, Statistics, Psychology and Visual Communication; B.Com (General); and B.B.A. (Financial Management). At PG level the college offers M.A. in English and Economics, M.S.W., M.Sc. in Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics and Zoology, and M.Com. UG classes run in two shifts. NIRF 2025 data submitted by the college lists a sanctioned UG intake of 944 for 2023-24 and 2,863 UG students. UG rank lists are drawn from the Part III total (out of 400) in the Tamil Nadu HSC examination under state reservation norms, and applications are made online through the Government of Tamil Nadu portal.