It was launched in October 2020, the second university to be set up by the Shiv Nadar Foundation, following Shiv Nadar University, Dadri in Uttar Pradesh.
It is the first private university to be legislated in Tamil Nadu in nine decades.
[2] It shares the campus with Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering.
The university came up as a result of a memorandum signed between HCL Technologies and the Government of Tamil Nadu in 2015 to facilitate the creation of a private university[3] and another memorandum signed by HCL and Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) in 2016.
[2] Sriman Kumar Bhattacharyya was appointed the founding vice chancellor of the university in March 2021.