The Department of Chemistry, started in 1987, offers M.Sc. (Chemical Sciences), M.Sc (Chemistry), Five year Integrated, M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes. From the very beginning, the postgraduate students of the Department, at the end of their course, qualify the national level tests, i.e. UGC-CSIR NET/GATE, to seek academic progression. Many pharmaceutical companies visit the Department every year to conduct campus interviews and recruit students for suitable positions.

The Department of Chemistry has highly qualified faculty members to conduct research in fore-front areas of Chemistry including inorganic, organic, physical and theoretical Chemistry. Research work of the faculty is supported by the national funding agencies, such as DST, CSIR, AICTE and UGC. Research output is regularly published in leading international / national journals having high impact factor. The Department is equipped to support teaching and research activities. Interdisciplinary and collaborative research is a feature of the Department.

There are 15 research scholars and 25 M.Phil. Scholars engaged in research activities. A good number of visitors come to interact with the faculty/students and to give lectures.

The Department is supported by the University Grants Commission’s SAP (DRS) and the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India FIST programme to achieve its academic potentials.

Programmes of study
M.Sc. Chemical Sciences
M.Sc. Chemistry (Five year Integrated)
M.Phil. Chemistry (Full-Time)
Ph.D. Chemistry
[Full-time, Part-time (Internal]]

Entrance Examination
M.Sc. Chemical Sciences: The selection is based on entrance test comprising of 100 objective type multiple-choice questions. The question paper consists 10% of questions from mathematics at +2 level and the rest 90% is equally distributed among inorganic, organic and physical chemistry at undergraduate level.
M.Sc. (Five year Integrated): The question paper will consist of objective type questions in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics at +2 level.
M.Phil. The selection is based on the entrance examination. The examination will consist of objective type questions, covering all aspects of chemistry at the M.Sc. level. There will be 100 questions, out of which 90 questions will be distributed among inorganic, organic, physical chemistry and 10 will be from theoretical chemistry.
Ph.D. The selection is based on entrance examination held in common with M.Phil. entrance test and viva. The candidates who are qualified in NET/GATE/CSIR etc. are exempted from taking written examination.

Infrastructure Facilities
The Department has excellent computational facility and computer networking for intra and internet. Research facilities include EPR, NMR, IR, GCMS, Polarimeter, Atomic Absorption Spectrometer, Fluorescence, UV-VIS Spectrometers to conduct research in the forefront areas of organic synthesis, magnetic resonance, solid-state chemistry, organometallic chemistry, etc. There is an ongoing effort to add other sophisticated instruments such as HPLC, TGA/DTA, X-ray fluorescence, etc. The scholars also use the facilities available at SAIF, Chennai and SIF, Bangalore.
All the faculty members have individual laboratories with basic equipments to carry out day-to-day research. The scholars have access to several online journals and databases. Research seminars, invited lectures and group discussions are constantly held for the benefit of research scholars.