Mount Zion College of Engineering and Technology (MZCET) was established in the year 2001 at Pudukkottai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is being run by the Mount Zion Christian Educational Trust. Mount Zion Christian Educational Trust was started in the year 1988 to provide quality education in the Pudukkottai Region. 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 Trust also runs Mount Zion Matriculation Higher Secondary School. It is one of the largest schools in Pudukkottai and has the enviable record of producing the highest number of district toppers in the class X and XII examinations. 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.