The Meenakshi Ammal Trust is a non-profit organization established in 1983 as a public charitable and educational trust by Mrs. D. Meenakshi Ammal, Thiru. A. N. Radhakrishnan and Tmt. Gomathi Radhakrishnan.

Today the Meenakshi Ammal Trust is recognised for establishing the Meenakshi Academy of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to be University) in 2004. Under the aegis of MAHER, we have several constituent colleges including but not limited to medical, dental, nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, yoga science and therapy and humanities and sciences, providing undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral levels of education to thousands of students.