It was established by the Episcopal Conference of Malawi on October 16, 2004, and officially opened its doors in 2006.

Its first school was established on 2 February 1902 at Nzama in Ntcheu District by three Montfort Missionaries: Fr.

Anton Winnen SMM, in charge of the first Catholic primary school in the country which he used to call ‘The University of Nzama’.

The ‘University’ started with eight students – men, women, and children aged between six and sixty years.

It is against this background that on 15 September 2004, the Bishops sent the chairperson for Education to meet the then Minister of Education to, among other things, alert him about the Episcopal Conference of Malawi's intention to request the FIC Brothers to turn Montfort Teachers Training College into a Catholic University.