The military college provides training and engineering education on signals intelligence and processing, cryptography, cyber security, computers, electronics, and telecommunication engineering for its cadets to be commissioned in the Corps of Signals of the Pakistan Army.

[2] The college is approximately 3 km (1.9 mi) from the Rawalpindi Railway Station with the nearby shopping center which is about 2 km (1.2 mi)[2] The British Army administrators in the Pakistan Army established the direct reporting detachment to provide education and training on the signal intelligence in 1947 in Rawalpindi.

[1] In 1977, the Pakistan Army's Corps of Education upgraded its status from school to staff college when the military signed a contract with the University of Engineering & Technology in Lahore (UET Lahore) to help start the accrediting of degree programs in electrical engineering with sub-disciplines in signal intelligence, digital signal processing, electronics and telecommunication engineering as well as starting the teachings on the electrical and computer engineering to the army officers.

Each year a standard NET (NUST Entrance Test) is conducted for undergraduate enrollment in these courses, only open for the civilian prospects which they have an option to take the American SAT subject tests.

The College also offers the doctoral program (PhD) in electrical engineering.

[4] The civilian students are enrolled after passing the GAT (Graduate Assessment Test).

[5] The MCS has about seventy faculty members who are responsible for teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses.