Women’s Christian College was established on seventh July 1915 as a joint endeavor of 12 evangelist social orders from the UK, USA and Canada, under the capable administration of the main Principal, Dr. Miss Eleanor McDougall,with 41 understudies and 7 staff in Hyde Park, a leased premises in Kilpauk. Pronounced a first grade College in 1916, WCC acquired the forcing Doveton House assembled around 1798 and set inside 11 sections of land of slyvan surroumdings along the banks of the River Cooum in Nungambakkam, utilizing an endowment of $25,000, liberally given by the Women's American Baptist Fellowship Missionary Society from the heritage of Mrs. Laura Spelman Rockefeller. The College moved to its new home on College Road on 5 July 1916 and as the quantity of understudies developed, purchased up 2 adjoining bundles of land and structures raising the absolute real esatate to 20. 

The Mission Statement of the College "To give a total, important and applicable instruction to ladies so they are mentally well-prepared, ethically upstanding, socially mindful and profoundly motivated" keeps on staying significant in the current context.Within the principal seven day stretch of its initiation, the maxim"Lighted to Lighten" was embraced as the College Motto and the sunflower as the C ollege Flower; the College Crest was structured and the College Song, "Place of graduation" was set to the tune of Finlandia created by Sibelius. 

From the early years, the College has had ties with comparative foundations both in India and abroad. Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, USA, received WCC as its 'Asian Sister' and every once in a while sent us books and endowments. As a signal of appreciation WCC has named one of its occupant corridors after this benefactor. 

In 1937, a little girl foundation, St. Christopher's Training College for preparing graduates in instructing was set up and supported on grounds till they moved to their own premises.