Queen Mary's College

Queen Mary's College (Autonomous) is a government arts and science college for women at Chennai - 600 004, affiliated to the University of Madras. It was started in 1914 by the British Government as Madras College for Women with 33 students, was the first government college to go for NAAC accreditation (a '4 star' status in 1999), received autonomy in 1987 and is currently accredited by NAAC with an A+ grade. The 17-acre campus lies on the Marina, facing the Bay of Bengal, and the college reports more than 5,000 students. NIRF 2025 ranks it 62nd in the College category; its NIRF data file reports 1,476 sanctioned UG and 322 PG seats for 2023-24, 4,592 UG and 623 PG students and 236 faculty members, and 824 placed UG graduates in 2023-24 at a median salary of Rs 2,52,000.

Undergraduate programmes cover B.A. (Economics, English, History, Music, Sanskrit, Sociology, Tamil, Telugu), B.Com (General and Corporate Secretaryship), twelve B.Sc subjects including Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Geography, and BCA, run in two shifts and, for several subjects, in both English and Tamil medium. The 2026-27 seat matrix lists 1,306 academic seats in Shift I and 616 in Shift II for UG, and 340 for PG. Postgraduate courses are M.A., M.Com, M.Sc and MCA, and Ph.D. programmes exist in arts and science. Admission is for women only: UG rank lists are drawn from the Part-III total (out of 400) in the Plus Two examination under the state's reservation norms and special quotas, and PG applicants need a UG degree.