List of institutions of higher education in Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is home to some of the most reputed institutes for higher education in India. Arts and science colleges include Madras Christian College, Loyola College, Chennai, Presidency College, Chennai, Pachaiyappa's College, PSG College of Arts and Science, Government Arts College, Coimbatore, St Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli, National College, Tiruchirappalli and American College, Madurai. Management education institutes include the Bharathidasan Institute of Management, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Loyola Institute of Business Administration, PSG Institute of Management Coimbatore and Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli. Engineering institutes include the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram, College of Engineering Guindy, Madras Institute of Technology, Alagappa College of Technology, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore SSN College of Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and SASTRA University. Institutes for medical education include Christian Medical College Vellore, Madras Medical College, Stanley Medical College, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research and PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research.

The University of Madras, established 1857, is one of the oldest modern state universities in India.