HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE

 
     
 

The Munificent Mohamed Sathak Trust is a charitable body established in the year 1973 by the Philanthropic Chairman Mohamed Sathak Family. The Trust aims at providing Quality Education to all the people irrespective of religion, caste, creed language and region. The main objective of the trust is excellence in imparting Scientific Technological, Medical and Management Education. With this noble aim the Trust first started the Mohamed Sathak Polytechnic in the year 1980 at Kilakarai. Marhum Alhaj Ahamed Jalaludeen, the eldest brother in the family was the Founder. Encouraged and Enthused by the success of this venture another technological institution of Higher Learning Mohamed Sathak Engineering College was started in October 1984. The Engineering College unlike other colleges offers apart from all other branches of study, branches like Marine Engineering and Aeronautical Engineering courses. The students have brought laurels to the institution by securing ranks and international recognition by getting VINCENT BENDIX AWARD of USA. The college is approved by AICTE.

In 1991, the Mohamed Sathak Trust extended its educational efforts to Chennai and started Mohamed Sathak College of Arts and Science at Sholinganallur in the Old Mahabalipuram Road, Chennai. The college is affiliated to Madras University and is approved by AICTE.

In 1991, Mohamed Sathak Industrial Training Institute was established at Kilakarai. In 1997, to spread Computer Education in every nook and corner of the state and to assist the Government of Tamilnadu in its efforts to make the Tamilnadu as a haven of Information Technology, Sathak Institute of Information Technology (SITECH) was started. SITECH in collaboration with Madurai Kamaraj University and Alagappa University, Karaikudi is doing yeoman service in the spread and development of IT throughout the state.

In 1997, the Mohamed Sathak Trust has established Mohamed A.J. College of Pharmacy at Sholinganallur, Chennai approved by Government of Tamilnadu and All India Council of Technical Education and affiliated to Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai. It offers Bachelor Degree in Pharmacy.

Further in the new millennium 2000, with the aim of spreading Arabic, Science & Management Education, the Mohamed Sathak Trust approached the Government of Tamilnadu and the Madurai Kamaraj University for establishing a college of Arts and Science, in Kilakarai, Ramnad District. The Government of Tamilnadu accepted the proposal of the Mohamed Sathak Trust and granted permission for the establishment of a college in its G.O. Ms.No214 dt. 13.06.2000, under self financing scheme. The college is named after their mother and is called Syed Hameedha Arts and Science College.

The Syed Hameedha Arts and Science College is open to the student of all castes, creeds and classes. The college believed in secularism, National Integration and Communal Harmony.

The major aim of the Syed Hameedha Arts and Science College is to provide high quality education to the youth. The basics of higher education namely, effective teaching, training and motivating the students to respond carefully and intelligently to the latest, updates in Arts, Science, Technology and Management studies are given priority.

Further, the Trust runs Syed Hameedha Arabic College where students of Arabic numbering 60 are given free boarding and lodging and education upto 7 Zumras and Hifz (Memorising Holy Quran) from the year 2000. The Arabic College is imparting Afzal Ulama Course at free of cost to 20 students. The course is recognized by the Madurai Kamaraj University and is equivalent to a college degree and the Afzal-ul-ulama Diploma holders can join M.A. Arabic Course in all the universities in India like JNU Delhi, Aligarh Muslims University etc.

The main aim of the college is discipline and education. The thrust is to create good, useful, patriotic, disciplined citizen of the country. The degree courses, the college offer will improve the quality and employability of the students. Definitely, it will help the backward and most backward people of this region to improve their lot.