Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions is a group of education institutions chain of schools, junior colleges, hostels, coaching institutions for IIT-JEE, NEET, EAMCET and UPSC-CS preparation and degree colleges across India. The academic director of Sri Chaitanya is Sushma Bopanna.
It was founded in 1986 by B.S Rao and his wife, Jhansi Lakshmi Bai. With over 321 state board-affiliated junior colleges, 322 K-10 Sri Chaitanya Techno Schools and 107 CBSE-affiliated schools, it is one of Asia's largest educational franchises with over 8.5 lakh students. In 2021, Tollywood actor Allu Arjun was signed as the brand ambassador of the institution.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sri Chaitanya launched Infinity Learn as part of its edtech platform, with Rohit Sharma leading the marketing campaign.
Sri Chaitanya was founded in 1986 by Dr. Boppana Satyanarayana Rao and his wife, Dr. Jhansi Lakshmi Bai Boppana. It was initially a junior college for girls in Vijaywada. In 1991, they opened a boys' junior college in Hyderabad (then part of the undivided Andhra Pradesh). New branches were opened in Visakhapatnam (1998) and various other districts of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
In 2021, Tollywood star Allu Arjun was signed as the brand ambassador of the institution with the "No Compromise on Success" campaign.
The founder, Dr. Boppana Satyanarayana Rao, died on 13 July 2023 after a heart attack.
Sri Chaitanya launched the Infinity Learn app in 2022, with educational content for classes 6âÂÂ12 with IIT-JEE, NEET and CBSE board exam coaching. In 2022, it acquired the edtech platform Don't Memorise and a 75% stake in WizKlub.
In December 2024, Infinity Learn partnered with Google Cloud India to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
On 28 February 2023, a 16-year-old student committed suicide in the college classroom of Sri Chaitanya Junior College, Narsingi campus by hanging from the ceiling wall fan. Many alleged tortures by college faculty, claiming that the boy had faced humiliation by the college's teaching staff.
Tension prevailed at the college premises after the incident, with the deceased's parents, relatives and student organisations staging protests by blocking the road near the college. Activists from the Students' Federation of India (SFI) staged a protest at the Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education office at Nampally against the college, demanding a criminal case to be registered against the accused and that the recognition of the college be cancelled. The police placed them under preventive arrest while they tried to enter the board office. The police arrested principals Akalanakam Narasimha Chary and Tiyyaguru Siva Ramakrishna Reddy, vice principal Vontela Shoban Babu, and warden Kandaraboina Naresh. The campus was later derecognised: it was barred from taking new admission in the next academic year, but existing students continued their second-year academics.
Later it was discovered that the institution had been running multiple campuses without the board's permission. The Times of India reported that while it has five campuses in Narsingi, only two of them had been registered with the government. This has been seen with several campuses of the institution across cities.