The University imparts each beneath Graduate and Post Graduate Education through the attached establishments that area unit touch the districts of Chennai, Thiruvallur and Kancheepuram. with the exception of teaching, analysis activities in Arts, Humanities, Science, Management and Technology shape the educational tenor of the University. variety of establishments attached to Madras University focus on analysis activities offering pH.D., Programmes in their several fields of specialisation.

The University additionally offers teaching and analysis programmes in its four campuses. The sixty-eight University Departments of study and analysis area unit touch four campuses unionized into eighteen colleges every of which provides Post Graduate Courses in several specialisations, half time and full-time pH.D. Programmes, credential and Certificate Programmes.