Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

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Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) is a university located in Kukatpally, Hyderabad. JNTU also has campuses in the districts of Kakinada and Anantapur. Though the university focuses mainly on engineering, it offers programs at the undergraduate, masters and doctoral level in a wide variety of fields, including a business school that offers an MBA program.

The university also includes the Institute for Post Graduate Studies and Research (IST), made up of ten "Schools of Excellence," each dedicated to a particular discipline of technical education. These schools offer programs leading to post graduate degrees. In addition, the emphasis is on research and development activities in collaboration with R&D organizations like TATA IBM.

While most of the privately owned 4-year engineering colleges in the state of Andhra Pradesh were once affiliated to their regional universities such as Osmania University in Hyderabad and Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, most engineering colleges founded in the state since the late 1990s (about 200 of them) have been affiliated to JNTU.

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The university was first established as the Hyderabad Polytechnic Institute and became Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University on October 2, 1972, by an act of State Legislature. Named after the ardent lover of science and technology and first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the university was established with the objectives of strengthening and improving the standards of technological education and making it relevant to the rural and industrial development of the country. It is the first technological university in India.

  • On its formation, the Government Engineering Colleges at Anantapur, Kakinada and Hyderabad, along with the Government College of Fine Arts and Architecture at Hyderabad, became its constituent colleges, so that the former Govt. College of Engineering, Anantapur; Govt. College of Engineering, Kakinada; and Nagarjuna Sagar College of Engineering, Hyderabad became the JNTU College of Engineering Anantapur, JNTU College of Engineering Kakinada, and JNTU College of Engineering Hyderabad, respectively.

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