Established by the South Indian Education Society, the college schools students from class 11 and 12 right up to advanced degrees and has research facilities and is affiliated to the University of Mumbai.
Affiliated to the University of Mumbai, the college has an impressive strength of over 4,000 students drawn from all sections of this cosmopolitan city.
The college in collaboration with Stree Mukti Sanghatana has started a Green initiative to REDUCE-REUSE-RECYCLE with RESPONSIBILITY.
The program has been initiated from 15 August 2014, and by now the college has converted approximately 2 ½ ton of biodegradable waste and has reaped around 200 kg of wet organic manure.
In order to know the status of book availability, the library is built with an OPAC system using open source software Koha to see visit the online library http://libcatsiesw-koha.informaticsglobal.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-user.pl SIES has an official college magazine titled "Dakshinayanam" which was also awarded the Best College Magazine by MU.
The origin of departmental newsletters was started by the Zoology department under the guidance of Mr. Madhavan Gopalan The college has "SIES Institute for Comprehensive Education" in its campus.