Nagarjuna College of Engineering and Technology (NCET) was started in the year
2001 under the aegis of Nagarjuna Education Society, Bengaluru, founded by Shri J V Ranga
Raju, Director, NCC Limited.
Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology is an autonomous institution under
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, the only technological university in
the state of Karnataka. The Institution is recognized by Government of Karnataka and
approved by AICTE, New Delhi.
The Institution has secured accreditation from National Assessment and Accreditation
Council (NAAC) and has been awarded with “A” grade.
NCET has crafted the vision to be among the Top Engineering Colleges in Karnataka. All the
strategies and policies that we plan have this over-arching goal as a guide. The college has
very good infrastructural facilities and the faculty at NCET are among the best in their
fields.
The Nagarjuna College of Engineering and Technology is strategically located on the
Bengaluru-Hyderabad National Highway, a road that falls on the Golden quadrangle. Its
proximity to the International airport at Bengaluru gives it strategic location and
commutability. The Institution has lush green campus spread over 100 acres with on-campus
residential facility for boys, girls and staff. These hostels have amenities like mess,
recreation room, state of art Gymnasium, automated laundry facilities, etc. Students are
encouraged to actively participate in outdoor games. The college has a spacious library with
well stacked books and well subscribed e-journals and e-books. The college is also a member
of the VTU Consortium for e-resources.
The college is recognized as Nodal Center for virtual lab facility, sponsored by MHRD,
Government of India. The Institution is associated with IIT-B, Mumbai for the project titled
e-Yantra on Robotic Technology for students and staff. ISRO has recognized our college as
one of the centres to carry out the student projects under STUDSAT. The institution also has
MoUs with different leading industries like Texas Instruments, EMC2, Oracle, NCC, Data Talk,
Spaneous, United Technologies etc.
The college has received two programmes under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY),
one in the department of Mechanical Engineering and another in Electronics and Communication
Engineering to train the unskilled youth to transform them into specialists in specific
areas.
The college is recognized by Government of Karnataka as a Centre of Innovative Science and
Engineering Education. The college was started with three B.E. programmes in 2001 and has
grown to offer five B.E degree programmes, Five M.Tech programmes and MBA programme. Eight
departments have been recognized as research centers by Visvesvaraya Technological
University, Belgaum to offer Ph.D. programme. Three of our UG courses were accredited by NBA
during 2009.
Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology also focuses on imparting training in
soft-skills, logical reasoning, aptitude tests, interviews, group discussion, etc and
provides placement opportunities to all eligible candidates in leading industries.
The college gives lot of importance to train the students in the areas of
Environmental protection, personality development, communication skills, ethics and
human values. In this connection, the institution has MoUs with ISKCON and Art of Living
Foundation.
The college is well managed by its young and dynamic CEO Shri Chaithanya Verma and is headed
by Dr S G Gopala Krishna, able and dynamic principal, who has been awarded recently with
Best Principal award by VTU. The coordination & team work of all concerned at Nagarjuna
Education Society and the commitment & determination of the management has made us to
fulfill our vision “Leadership & Excellence in Education”.