PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore

PSG College of Arts and Science is an autonomous college on Avinashi Road at Civil Aerodrome Post, Coimbatore, affiliated to Bharathiar University. It opened on 11 August 1947 under the PSG and Sons' Charities trust, formed in 1926, and is named after the philanthropist P. S. Govindasamy Naidu. In 1978, while still affiliated to the University of Madras, it became one of the first nine colleges in India to receive autonomy from the UGC. The 58.5-acre campus has separate hostels for men and women, and the college runs both government-aided and self-financing streams.

For 2026-27, PSG CAS lists 15 aided and 44 self-financing undergraduate programmes in arts, science, commerce and management, 31 postgraduate programmes, two PG diplomas and Ph.D. research in 24 subjects. Undergraduate places are allotted by rank on Class 12 marks and community, and postgraduate places on undergraduate marks. The Department of Biotechnology named it a Star College in 2009, and NAAC awarded it an A++ grade (CGPA 3.51) in its fourth cycle in 2022. In NIRF 2025 it is ranked 10th in the college category.