Mount Carmel College of Teacher Education for Women, Kottayam was established in 1953.

The college is managed under the Carmelite Sisters of St.Teresa.

The College is affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.

Mount Carmel College of Teacher Education, Kottayam envisions a life-oriented education that empowers the trainees through a humanizing and liberative process to be agents of transformation and development at different levels of life with a focus on the formative elements of their lives as prospective educators and on their integral growth.

Enabled and empowered, the college responds pro-actively to concerns and conflicts inherent in today's reality, especially those of women and persons who are unable to exercise their freedom to be human and work for the integrity of creation.