School of English & Foreign Languages, Madurai was established in 1967.

Its managed by under the headship of a British Council Representative with the view to helping the UG students to achieve mastery in communication skills, introducing PG course in English Language and Literature and encouraging research in all areas.

The main aim is to improve their communicative skill, the Department of English Language Studies was started as a wing in the Department of English and Comparative Literature in 1989 and was later elevated to the status of a separate department.

The Department of English Language Studies is one of its kinds in the whole of India to offer English Language Teaching (ELT) at post-graduate level.