Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts and Science

Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts and Science (KCLAS) is a private liberal arts and science college on the Kumaraguru Campus at Chinnavedampatti, Coimbatore, established in 2018. It is part of the Kumaraguru Institutions, which grew out of the Sakthi Group under founder chairman Dr N. Mahalingam, and it is an affiliated college of Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, which lists it among its affiliated colleges. NIRF 2025 places it in the 101-150 band of the College category, and the NIRF 2025 data submitted by the college records a sanctioned intake of 520 undergraduate and 60 postgraduate seats for 2023-24.

The college teaches three-year undergraduate programmes in commerce (B.Com and B.Com Professional Accounting), business administration (BBA and BBA International Business), B.A. Economics, B.A. Political Science, B.A. Tamil (Creative Writing), and B.Sc. Psychology, Visual Communication, Data Science and Sports Science. Postgraduate programmes are the two-year Master of Social Work and M.A. Political Science, open to graduates of any discipline with a first class, and doctoral research is listed in commerce, management and Tamil. Applicants register on the college website, take an online test and a personality test, and attend a personal interview, an orientation seminar and essay writing on campus. NIRF 2025 data records 1,360 undergraduate students, and of the 371 graduates of 2023-24, 71 were placed and 286 went on to higher studies.