MEA Engineering College is a private self-financing engineering institution located at Vengoor, near Perinthalmanna in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India. The college is run by the Muslim Educational Association (MEA), a charitable trust active in promoting educational institutions in the Malabar region. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in engineering and is affiliated to the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University.
| Type | Private self-financing engineering college |
|---|---|
| Location | Vengoor, Perinthalmanna, Malappuram district, Kerala, India |
| Managed by | Muslim Educational Association (MEA) |
| Affiliation | APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University |
| Approval | All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) |
| Academic level | Undergraduate (B.Tech) and postgraduate (M.Tech) |
The Muslim Educational Association is a trust that has established a number of schools and colleges in the Malabar region of Kerala, with a focus on improving access to professional and technical education in areas that historically had limited higher education infrastructure. MEA Engineering College was set up as part of this wider effort to expand engineering education in interior Malappuram district.
Perinthalmanna, where the college is situated, is a municipal town in Malappuram district known as a regional centre for healthcare and education. The campus at Vengoor lies a short distance from the town along the route towards Pathaikkara.
The college offers Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) programmes in core engineering branches typically including Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering. Postgraduate M.Tech programmes are offered in select specialisations. Curricula, examinations and degree awards follow the regulations of the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, with which all government and self-financing engineering colleges in Kerala were affiliated from 2015 onwards. Earlier batches were affiliated to the University of Calicut.
Admissions to B.Tech programmes are conducted through the Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical (KEAM) entrance examination administered by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations, Government of Kerala, with a portion of seats filled under the management quota as per state norms for self-financing institutions. M.Tech admissions are based on GATE scores and state-level merit procedures.
The campus houses departmental blocks with classrooms, engineering laboratories, computer centres, drawing halls, a central library, seminar facilities and hostels for men and women. Co-curricular activity is organised through professional student chapters such as IEEE, ISTE and CSI, along with arts, sports and technical clubs.
MEA Engineering College is among several self-financing engineering colleges that emerged in Kerala during the expansion of technical education in the early 2000s. Within Malappuram district, it forms part of a cluster of institutions that have widened access to engineering education for students from the eastern hill regions of the district and adjoining parts of Palakkad and Wayanad.