Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan University is a private multidisciplinary university at Samayapuram in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. It was established under the Tamil Nadu Private Universities Act, 2019 and began developing its academic structure in the early 2020s. The university is promoted by the Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Charitable and Educational Trust, founded in 1994 by A. Srinivasan. That trust had already developed a substantial network of educational institutions in Tamil Nadu across medicine, engineering, arts and science, education, nursing, polytechnic and other fields before the university was created. DSU’s academic character is strongly multidisciplinary, bringing medical and health sciences together with engineering, agriculture, management, law, architecture, pharmacy, arts and science. The campus at Samayapuram is designed as a large integrated learning environment with modern classrooms, laboratories, residences and student facilities. The university’s “education for the real world” approach emphasizes practical learning, professional competence, research, innovation and entrepreneurship. Health education is a particularly important part of the institutional structure, with medicine, allied health sciences, physiotherapy and nursing operating alongside engineering and technology. Agricultural Sciences began its academic journey with B.Sc. Agriculture in 2021, added doctoral programmes in agriculture in 2022 and expanded into horticulture in 2023, illustrating the university’s rapid programme development. DSU also maintains a research centre and postgraduate pathways across several schools. The source workbook records 2021 as the establishment year, while official university material links the statutory basis to the Tamil Nadu Private Universities Act, 2019; both dates reflect different stages of the institution’s creation and operation. Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan University’s defining feature is the transformation of a long-running educational trust into an integrated university combining medicine, technology, agriculture and other professional disciplines on one Tiruchirappalli campus. The university’s integrated structure is especially relevant for interdisciplinary work linking healthcare, technology, life sciences and agriculture, fields that can share laboratories, research expertise and community-facing applications.