The Internal Quality Assurance Cell of the college strives to sustain and enhance the quality measures upgraded by the institution since its inception in the year 2004. It arranges for periodic assessment and accreditations. The IQAC stimulates the academic environment for promotion of quality of teaching-learning and research. It ensures to collaborate with other stakeholders of higher education for quality evaluation, promotion and sustenance. It encourages self-evaluation, accountability and undertakes quality-related research studies, consultancy and training programmes. It consistently works for catalytic improvement and consciously contributes towards the overall excellence of the institution.
St. Mary’s College, (Autonomous) a Catholic Institution of Higher Education for women, was established on 1 July 1948, by the Servite Sisters, the Congregation of Mother of Sorrows, Servants of Mary. The institution has created a seventy years of legacy in quality higher education for women, in the coastal town of Thoothukudi, a semi- urban area, situated in the south eastern bend of Tamil Nadu. The motto of the college is Fide Vivant (Live by Faith). The college was affiliated to Madras University from 1948 to 1965-1966, to Madurai Kamaraj University from 1966-1967 to 1989-1990 and to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University from 1990 -1991 till date.
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