SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRM IST), formerly known as SRM University, is one of the top-ranking universities in India with over 20,000 students and more than 2600 faculty across all the campus. It offers a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs in Engineering, Management, Medicine, Health Sciences, Science and Humanities. The research department at the SRMIST carries out cutting edge research in frontier areas with more than 224 government-funded projects at an outlay of INR 115 Crores.