History

The Mount Zion Christian Educational Trust was started in 1988 with the aim of providing quality education in the educationally backward district of Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu. The Trust started a school by the name "Mount Zion Matriculation Higher Secondary School" in 1988. From humble beginnings, it has grown into the best school in Pudukkottai District. It regularly produces top rankers in the district and state in the XII and X standard board examinations. It also holds the distinction of having sent the highest number of students for higher studies in Medicine and Engineering into top raked colleges purely on the basis of merit.

The Trust then decided to start an Engineering college in the year 2001. Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology was thus started in 2001 with affiliation granted by Bharathidasan University. The college started functioning with three branches namely B.E - Computer Science and Engineering, B.E - Electronics and Communication and Engineering and B.Tech - Information Technology. At its inception, the intake of the college was 180 students and it has increased to much greater numbers now. It is now one of the most reputed engineering colleges in the area by virtue of its campus placements. Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology since its first year has been placing the highest number of students into top notch Multi National Companies among engineering colleges in the region.

Mount Zion also has one of the largest campuses among engineering colleges in the area. It is located in a sprawling 100 acre campus with buildings nestled between trees. The college site was initially a farm before Mount Zion Christian Educational Trust acquired it and hence it is still home to a large number of fruiting trees. The calm and serene environment, invigorates the mind and the unpolluted atmosphere brings health to the body.