Subbalakshmi Lakshmipathy College of Science is an autonomous self-financing college affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University and accredited with A+ Grade by NAAC. It is run by Subbalakshmi Lakshmipathy Foundation (SLF), a charitable trust initiated in 1989 to promote job-oriented education on a non-profit motive basis by     Dr. R. Lakshmipathy, a doyen in the Newspaper industry. He is the publisher of the largest circulated Tamil Daily “Dinamalar” and also of the Medical Magazines, ‘The Antiseptic’ and the ‘Health’.

SLCS became the youngest self-financing college from south part of Tamilnadu to receive autonomy in 2006 and in the span of 25 years  ( ESTD. NOV 24, 1994 ) we are in the Fifth cycle of NAAC accreditation. With autonomy, SLCS has framed its own new programmes of studies and adopted innovative methods, to meet the current industrial requirements and mainly to become Employable.