History
We can trace our roots back to 1968, when he first started the Florence Nightingale primary school. This school educates young boys and girls to this day and forms the cornerstone of the SRM group of educational institutions. That same year the chancellor formed the Valliammai Society in honor of his mother, Mrs. R. Valliammai.
Path of progress
In 1985, the SRM group opened SRM Engineering College in Kattankulathur. A measure of its success is the short span in which the organization grew and over the next few years numerous SRM centers of learning materialized. A clear indication of the progress made by the organization came in the year 2002, when SRM College of Dentistry was awarded the status of deemed university by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, India. The same year, engineering and later the medical and para-medical colleges of the group were brought under the ambit of SRM Deemed University. The other colleges followed suit in 2003-04.
The crowning moment
The deemed university attained the status of a full-fledged university, under section 3 of the UGC Act 1956. An upgraded syllabus and international teaching methods, designed by SRM's International Advisory Board (IAB), which had long been held by administrative constraints, could finally be put into practice. And the saga is just beginning. Whether it's building a 16-storey IT park or acquiring teaching models from MIT of USA, it's all happening right here, at SRM University.
