SKP Engineering College is a self-financing college, sponsored by Sri. S. Kuppusamy Memorial Educational Trust, which was established in the year 1999 with a noble aim of imparting technical education to the rural masses in and around Tiruvannamalai. The institution enables them to be placed as the best professionals in industries and make them enter into high level programmes with competence and confidence. The college is approved by the AICTE, New Delhi and currently affiliated to the Anna University, Chennai. The college, initially approved to start with four B.E. / B.Tech programmes with the student intake of 240, now is offering Nine UG(B.E./B.Tech.) Programmes and Five PG (M.E.) programmes and one PG programme in Management Studies (M.B.A) with annual approved intake of 1086 students.