SRM Institute of Science and Technology PhD Courses & Fees 2026: Admission Dates, Eligibility & Selection, Application Process

The SRM highest package offered during the 2025 placement drive stood at INR 65 LPA. Earlier, the highest package offered during placements 2024 was INR 52 LPA. The following table showcases the highest package for placements between 2023 and 2025:

During the SRM Kattankulathur 2025 placements, recruiters offered over 4,227 high-paying jobs. In 2024, the participating recruiters presented over 3,295 high-paying job offers to the students. The total number of high-paying job offers provided during SRM placements between 2024 and 2025 are tabulated below: 

SRM Institute of Science and Technology or SRM IST (formerly known as SRM University Chennai) was established in 1985 and is located in Kattankulathur, Chennai. It is considered to be a good college as it is ranked 1001-1200 by the QS World University Rankings 2025 under the 'World University' category. Further,  SRM University Chennai Rankings include 4th rank by Outlook 2023 under the Engineering category,  4th rank by Times 2023 for BBA, and 11th rank by NIRF 2024 under the Architecture category. 

Yes, candidates can get admission to BTech without JEE Main score. Admission to BTech course is only based on SRMJEEE score. Candidates are required to pass Class 12 with minimum 60% aggregate as per the minimum eligibility criteria. Further, aspirants must qualify for SRM JEE exam with a valid score. This exam is conducted in two phases. The application window for 2024 has started for both the phases. Find here the registration details for SRM JEE exam.

SRM IST fee refund policy is based on UGC guidelines. Candidates get full refund at any time between the academic year of admission. Candidates are required to submit an application form signed by them t and their parent in person or online for refund. Candidates get refund to their bank provided in the refund request form. The refund will be processed by RTGS or NEFT. 

For admission to SRM Institute of Science and Technology, candidates need to apply through any of the entrance exam given below or through SRM Institute entrance exam. Refer the table below for SRM MBA past year cutoffs: 

No, candidates must pay all fees online or by DD. No cash payment is allowed for the counselling process. The candidates who qualify for SRMJEEE must appear for the counselling rounds with their documents for verification. SRMIST is conducting the counselling online. For online counselling, candidates are informed the details through email or text messages. To participate in SRMJEEE counselling in online mode (SRM counselling), candidates have to register and pay the required fee.

Candidates who withdraw their admission and seeking for fee refund at SRM University, must contact the admission office of the university and go through the refund policies. As per the details collated from the unofficial sources, candidates can also donwload the refund form from the official website. After filling the form and attaching the relevant documents, the form can be submitted to the SRM university admin department main campus.

As per the latest statistics, 9740 job offers were rolled to the 2025 batch students. Earlier, the number of offers made during SRMIST placements 2024 was over 6291. The number of high paying offers in 2025 was 4227 and in 2024 it was above 3295.

SRM University Chennai offers various UG & PG courses in the streams of Management, Engineering, Law, Education, Commerce, etc. The fee for all the courses may vary as per the course type, duration and specialisation a student may choose. Further, SRM University course fees may include various components such as tuition fees, registration fees, security deposit and more. Check out the following table for course-wise tuition fees offered at SRM University:

*The above-mentioned fee is taken from the official website/sanctioning body. Hence, is indicative. Also, the given fee range is inclusive of the course fees at the affiliated colleges.

As per unofficial sources, SRM Institute of Science and Technology alumni are working in leading national and multinational companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle, TCS, Infosys, HCL, Adobe, etc. They are majorly involved in the Engineering sector. The sector-wise distribution of SRM IST alumni is presented in the below pie-chart:

NOTE: The ‘Others’ category illustrates the combined data of diverse domains such as HR, Business Development, IT, Marketing, Community and Finance sectors.

SRM Institute of Science and Technology cutoff 2024 had been released based on NEET MDS scores of the candidates seeking admission to MDS courses at the institute. As per the SRM Institute of Science and Technology NEET MDS cutoff 2024, the MDS specialisation cutoff for the General All India category candidates stood between 4470 and 14288. Candidates can check out the year-wise NEET MDS cutoff for General AI category:

SRM Kattankulathur, through various colleges and departments, offers UG, PG, Ph.D. Diploma, and other courses to students across Management, Architecture, Engineering, and other streams. The deemed university also offers distance education through the Directorate of Distance Education and online courses to students. Some of them are the College of Engineering & Technology, the SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre (SRM MCHRC), SRM Kattankulathur Dental College and Hospital, College of Management, College of Science & Humanities, College of Law, SRM College of Agriculture Sciences, and others.

Admission to SRM University has been conducted under SRMHCAT through MAT, XAT scores. To get into SRM University, candidates need to acquire a cutoff rank of 80 for MAT and 50 for XAT under open category. Comparing it to the previous years' cutoff, it remained same over the years. No change has been witnessed in the cutoffs in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

SRM Institute of Technology Kattankulathur offers PhD at the doctoral level. The course is offered to three category students, namely full-time, part-time and part-time external candidates. While the duration for full-time course range from three to five years, the duration for part-time course range from three to six years. SRM University offers PhD in 60 specialisations. Additionally, Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics and IT-Phase II initiated by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) of the Government of India allots two full-time PhD seats to the institute.