The Muslim Educational Society (MES), Kozhikkod, is a pioneering nurture of the Muslim Community in Kerala, established in 1964 under the tutelage of the charismatic personality of the late Dr. P.K. Abdul Gaffoor and a lot of other philantheopists. Though MES had a very humble begining, it is functioning at present as one of the top-notch educational agencies in Kerala with a wide network of over 20 reputed CBSE Schools, 6 high schools & H.S.S.s under state syllabus and 12 well-established regular degree colleges. Seven of them imparting instructions in Arts, Science, Commerce, Computer Science and aliied fields are NAAC accredited post-graduate institutions.

MES College for Advanced Studies at Edathala, established in 2005, is a self-financed college, affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam and approved by the Government of Kerala, vide GO(MS) No.: 88/2005/H.Edn., dated 08-07-2005. The management has the vision of developing this institution into a premier centre of academic excellence by giving top priority to Post Graduate Studies and Research. It also envisages the upliftment of the socially and economically downtrodden students to have access to the highest academic accomplishments in their own areas of interest. It also aims at moulding and producing world-class professionals, so as to enable them to perch at ease in the job market anywhere in the world. MES College for Advanced Studies is located at Edathala North (near the Panchayath Office). It is 25 kms away from Cochin City and 14 kms from the International Airport at Nedumbassery. The nearest Railway Station is Aluva from Where the distance is only 7 kms.