The M.I.E.T. Arts college was established by the Mohammed Institute of Education and Technology Society Tiruchirappalli in the year 1994, a society registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, 1975, at the initiative of Alhaj A. Mohamed Yunus, an industrialist-cum-educationist as founder secretary and Alhaj S.M. Hassan Mohamed, a Philanthropist as the founder president, with an objective to serve the cause of higher education. The college is affiliated to Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli.