Hindusthan College of Arts and Science

Hindusthan College of Arts and Science (HICAS) is a private autonomous college started in 1998 by the Hindusthan Educational and Charitable Trust, on Avinashi Road at Hindusthan Gardens, Coimbatore. It is affiliated to Bharathiar University, which confers the degrees, and became autonomous in July 2015; it has held DBT STAR College status since 2017. NAAC accredited it at A++ in its second cycle, with a CGPA of 3.66 on a four-point scale, on 17 January 2023, valid up to 16 January 2028. The college is in the 101-150 rank band of the NIRF 2025 College ranking, and its NIRF 2025 submission lists a sanctioned intake for 2023-24 of 2,580 UG and 990 PG seats and a strength of 6,754 UG and 1,753 PG students.

The 2026-27 admission portal lists 35 three-year undergraduate and 16 two-year postgraduate programmes across computing, commerce, management, sciences, media, fashion, hospitality and languages. Undergraduate options include BCA, nine B.Com. specialisations, four BBA variants, B.Voc. Graphic Design, B.A. English and B.Sc. programmes from Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Cyber Security to Biotechnology, Microbiology, Psychology and Catering Science and Hotel Management. Postgraduate programmes include the MBA, MCA, MSW, M.Com., M.A. English and ten M.Sc. subjects. The MBA, running since 2005 with 240 seats a year, is AICTE-approved. Admission is on merit under Tamil Nadu Government and Bharathiar University reservation rules, with half the seats filled under the reservation policy and half under the management quota; applications are made online on the Hindusthan admission portal or on paper at the college.