D.K.M. College for Women established in the year 1972, stands as a living testimony of the generosity and vision of its founder Shri. N. Krishnaswamy Mudaliar. The College is most efficiently managed by the NKM Trust for the past 50 years. In the year of its inception, the College began with only one Pre-University Course and in the following year, B.A. History was started and in a few successive years, 5 major disciplines began to be functional. The College which had a student strength of 150 has grown today into a glorious pillar of learning with a strength of 3687 students. It now enjoys the pride of offering 19 UG courses, 12 PG courses, with various disciplines offering Research Guidance/Supervision for 10 M.Phil. and 14 Ph.D. programmes. The College has a dedicated team of 113 faculty members (both aided and self-supporting) who form the mainstay of the Institutions academic brilliance.