Sree Muthukumaraswamy College, Chennai, is affiliated to various universities and offers undergraduate as well as postgraduate programmes. The college has a really flexible admission process for aspiring students across disciplines. Usually, Sree Muthukumaraswamy College opens and closes its admission as the academic calendar of its affiliated university.

As the Sree Muthukumaraswamy College admission qualifications tend to vary with the programmes, undergraduate courses require students to have passed their 12th standard or equivalent examination by a recognised board. In the case of postgraduate programmes, the students are supposed to hold a relevant bachelor's degree.