SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) is a private deemed university located in Kattankulathur, near Chennai, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It was founded in 1985 as SRM Engineering College and was conferred deemed university status in 2002.
The institution functions as a deemed-to-be university under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, with its headquarters at Kattankulathur. It operates across six campuses, including four in the Chennai region — Kattankulathur, Ramapuram, Vadapalani and Baburayanpettai — along with campuses at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh and Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu.
SRMIST has three sister universities, situated at Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh, Sonepet in Haryana and Gangtok in Sikkim.