TCE aims at creating quality professionals to meet the emerging industrial and social needs through innovative teaching, applied research and industrial interaction. TCE is one of the highly recognized Engineering and Technology Institutions in India by MHRD.

Spread across 143 acres, TCE is a self sustained educational institute with nearly 219 Faculty members, 4300 students and 200 administrative and supporting staff. The campus is set within a serene and eco-friendly environment surrounded by dense vegetation and best infrastructure facilities. More than 60% of the faculty members hold doctoral degrees from reputed national and international Institutions. 

The institution has fifteen academic departments (offering nine UG programmes and ten PG programmes), five nodal research centers, Incubation center and more than fifty laboratories aiding hands-on learning of products and system building. Each course is designed to have balance depth of conceptual and Technical knowledge along with practical understanding. 

To provide world class quality technical education with strong ethical values. 

• Achieve academic excellence in Science, Engineering and Technology through dedication to duty, commitment to research, innovation in learning and faith in human values.
• Enable the students to develop into outstanding professionals with high ethical standards capable of creating, developing and managing global engineering enterprises.
• Fulfil expectations of the society and industry by equipping students with state of art technology resources for developing sustainable solutions.
• Achieve these through team efforts making Thiagarajar College of Engineering, the socially diligent trend setter in technical education.