Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology, Pudukkottai

About Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology, Pudukkottai

Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology was inaugurated in the year 2001. It is run by Mount Zion Christian Educational Trust. This trust was formed in 1988 with the sole aim of providing education in the educationally backward district of Pudukkottai. The Chairman of the trust is Mr. Jayabarathan Chelliah, M.A.(U.S.A).,B.Ed who has over 35 years of experience in heading institutions. He has a masters in Educational Administration from Loma Linda University, U.S.A. The college since its inception has grown in leaps and bounds and is currently one of the best in the region. It strives to make all those who pass through its portals into innovative, hardworking engineers who will be of use to their places of work and to the society at large. Mount Zion also has the distinction of having secured the highest number of job placements among self-financing engineering colleges in the region. Though young, the college has great plans for the future and the management is determined to transform Mount Zion into one of the best engineering institutions in the world.We hope that this website will give you helpful information, answer your questions, and provide you with an overview of who we are and what we are about. We are a family of committed teachers in Jesus Christ, seeking to serve the student community around us. We would be delighted to have you visit us in person! May God bless you this day and every day.

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 & Engineering, B.E - Electronics & Communication Engineering and B.Tech - Information Technology. At its inception, the intake of the college was 180 students and it has increased to over 1500 students now. The college then got approval for B.E - Electrical & Electronics Engineering in 2005. Later, B.E - Aeronautical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering was added in 2008. In 2009, B.E - Civil Engineering was approved. 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.