MES Mampad College was started in 1965 by the Ernad Educational Association, at a time when the socio-educational and economic level of the Ernad region and the people was alarmingly poor. There was no even UP School or High School in the Mampad Panchayath, which point to the extreme backwardness of the area. It was this grim reality that impelled the famous scholar and reformer, late C.N Ahamed Moulavi to persuade late Athan Moyin Adhikari, a landlord and philanthropist residing at Mampad to establish an institution in a rural area in Mampad village. One fundamental reason for the educational backwardness of this region had been the absence, for a long time, of an institution for higher learning.