The LICET, Chennai is one of the very few engineering colleges in the heart of the city. Established in 2010 it is tipped to have a great demand in the near future.
After many years of service in higher education, the Jesuits of Madurai Province now have taken a significant step to start an engineering college in the Loyola College Campus in 2010. This enhances the profile of the Jesuit Chennai Mission in its efforts to empower the Dalits the poor and the marginalized.
The institution would be known as Loyola-ICAM College of Engineering and Technology (LICET). It aims at the Industrial education with affordable cost. As per the option of the Madurai Jesuits, 30% of the seats would be for the Dalits and the poor.
The education is designed as an empowering process of the marginalized and hence the training would be job-oriented: The curriculum will concentrate on the current industrial requirements. The students would be trained and accordingly effectively placed in the industries for internship.
The engineering college aims at empowerment through employable education. This is the first of its kind to be started by the Jesuits in Tamilnadu and third engineering college to be started in India.
LICET would also have an entrepreneurship centre. This would be conducted in collaboration with the industries and LIBA (Loyola Institute of Business Administration). Training would be given both in the class-room as well as in industrial milieu and the diploma would be given by LIBA. LIBA will continue to collaborate with LICET – The students, after studies in LICET, could move on to LIBA for an MBA diploma.
