The Periyar Maniammai Institute of Science & Technology was established in 1988 as Periyar Maniammai College of Technology for Women, named after social reformers
Periyar and his wife
Annai E. V. R. Maniammai. The college was originally affiliated to
Bharathidasan University until 2001, when it was reassigned to
Anna University. In 2007 it was awarded the
deemed-to-be-university status and renamed as Periyar Maniammai University. The decision on University status was halted by the
Supreme Court and the issue was left undecided until 2014. In 2017, following the
University Grants Commission directive to 123 institutes of India not to use "university" in the title of deemed universities, it was renamed Periyar Maniammai Institute of Science & Technology. ==Faculty and departments==