Chennai, Tamil Nadu | Approved By : NAAC | Estd:
| Institute Type | State Government |
| Name of the Institute | Presidency College (Autonomous) - PCA |
| Affiliated | Govt. of Tamil Nadu |
| Approved By | NAAC |
| Address | Kamarajar Salai, Chepauk Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600005 , India |
| City | Chennai |
| State | Tamil Nadu |
| Pincode | 600005 |
| Landline | 044) 28544894, 28586401 , 28510732 |
| info@presidencychennai.com | |
| Website | www.presidencychennai.com |
It had taken, decades for the College to come to fruition. At the command of Sir Thomas Munro a Committee of open guidance was shaped in 1826. In 1836 the obligations of the Committee of open guidance was taken over by "The Committee of Native Education." The arrangement drawn up by the Committee did not praise themselves to Lord Elphinstone who thus proposed nineteen goals which were passed collectively. The essence of the goals was as follows:"That it is practical that a Central Collegiate Institution or University ought to be set up at Madras". "The Madras University to comprise of two head offices, a College for the Higher Branches of Literature, Philosophy and Science, and a High School for the Cultivation of English Literature and of the vernacular dialects of India and the rudimentary divisions of Philosophy and Science". On 22nd April 1852 the then Governor, Fort. St. George Sir Henry Pottinger, Constituted a body called the 'College Board' with a President and sixteen individuals. In the start of 1853, the establishment entered upon the second age in its history. It experienced redesign and was grown downwards and upwards. TM High School classes were reworked, an elementary school was set up and a different university division was founded. In 1855 the university office was moved to the recently made Department of Public Instruction and the Institution officially got its present name Presidency College. With the expulsion of restriction on beginning law classes the school began law classes also.