Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi Infrastructure Details

Ishani Mishra

Infrastructure and Facility at Amrita School of Dentistry, Kochi:

Sports:

• The campus has playgrounds that students can use to paly outdoor games such as football, cricket or basketball.

Library:

• The Central Library of Amrita School of Dentistry has a carpet area of 81,000 square feet.
• The library has been automated by the Libsys software.
• The library materials that cater to various learning resources of 58103 books, 377 Periodicals, 3000+ online e-resources like e-journals, e-books, conference proceedings, e-databases and standards, 2650 Project reports, 7086 back-volumes, 4781 CD/DVDs resources and 14 Daily News Papers.

Digital Library:

• The Digital Library has centrally air-conditioned, which has the capacity of 170 users.
• Amrita University subscribes to the online e-resources such as ACM, ASCE, ASME, ASTM, Access Engineering from McGraw-Hill, J-Gate (JET) & (SMS), IEEE Xplore (ASPP), Science Direct-Elsevier , Springer Journals and E-books, DELNET (bibliographic database), EBSCO, Proquest, IBID , Capitaline and SUNNY BUFFALO
• The college has a separate library for e-resources such as E-books, course lectures, audio and video lectures and departments’ home pages.
• The Internet Access facility is available in the digital section.
• The Amrita Univerity's Digital Library(Sunny Buffalo) also has a large collection of databases, e-books, e-journals, catalogs and other resources related to All the
• subjects of study offered in the university which can be accessed from the digital section.

Medical facilities:

• In the case of any emergency, there is a hospital on the campus where the wounded can be taken to.
• There are also first aid kits all over the campus in offices that students can access if required.

Hostels:

• Separate hostel facilities are provided for girls and boys.
• There are eight hostels in the campus which accommodate above 3500 inmates.
• All hostels have solar water heaters for supplying hot water.
• There is a night cafeteria for all hostels.
• All students are expected to live in the hostel during their course. However, local students who live with their parents within a radius of 30 km from the campus will be permitted to come from their homes.
• Pure vegetarian food prepared under hygienic conditions is served in the dining halls and the canteens from a Central Kitchen.
• Students are not permitted to live in rented houses, lodges, either alone or in groups.
• P.G students and final year U.G students are allotted single rooms.
• Tobacco, in any form and any other intoxicants are strictly prohibited.