The college has its beginnings in a primary school started at Kallai, near Calicut, in 1848 by the Basel Evangelical Mission with a strength of about 100 pupils in five classes. Malabar Christian College, is the only educational institution in Kozhikode, Kerala which has had the privilege of being visited and blessed by the Father of the Nation – Mahatma Gandhi. In the year 1934, the Mahatma visited this institution to collect money from the students here towards the cause of the freedom struggle, and it is said a hundred rupees was collected by the patriotic students and presented to him in a pouch during a small ceremony which was organized for the occasion. The college has enshrined this visit in the form of the Gandhi Statue which was built in 2010 and which stands at the entrance porch of the college.
- Year started 1909
- Affiliation University of Calicut
- Website http://mccclt.ac.in/
- Location Kannur Rd, Vellayil, Kozhikode, Kerala 673001, MCC Cross Rd, Kozhikode, Kerala 673004.
- CourseUndergraduate-
• BA Economics
• B.A Functional English
• B.A History
• B.A Malayalam
Postgraduate-
• M.A History
• M.A Malayalam
