This College started in 1998 with the approval of AICTE and affiliation to Kalyani University with 120 students in 3 disciplines, as a non commercial, self financing, partly Govt. Aided Engineering College from the MIT Campus and soon after six months shifted to its own huge campus where the Laboratories, Workshops, Classrooms, Library, Computer Centers and Hostels are all located.
The new horizon in the field of technical education in India, the Murshidabad College Of Engineering and Technology was inaugurated by Dr. Asim Kr. Dasgupta, Minister-In-Charge, Finance, Govt. of West Bengal, on 8th August, 1998. The formal inauguration of this College building "PRATYAY" (meaning ‘Confidence’) was done by the then Honorable Chief Minister of West Bengal Mr. Buddha Dev Bhattacharya. The College moved one step ahead when it moved under the West Bengal University of Technology from the very day the later came into existence.
It is a matter of pride that within a span of Eight years the progress of the College has been remarkable. The students of this College are doing extremely well in the examinations conducted by the University and they are serving successfully in many reputed organizations of all over India and those of Abroad.