JP College of Engineering, Tirunelveli was established under the Society of Daughters of Mary Immaculate and Collaborators (DMI) which was established in 1984 by Rev.Fr. J.E. Arul Raj OMI, at Keechalam, a remote village in Thiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu, India.

Vision and Mission:

To evolve as Centre of Excellence in Teaching, Innovative Research and Consultation in Engineering and Technology and to empower the rural youth with technical knowledge and professional competence thereby transposing them as globally competitive and self-disciplined technocrats.

To inculcate technical knowledge and soft skills among rural students through student-centric learning process and make them as competent Engineers with professional ethics to face the global challenges, thus bridging the 'rural-urban divide'.