JNTU College of Engineering,
Anatapur stands aloft on a solid foundation of past glory and prestige. This
college was started in the year
1946, under the post war reconstruction program and functioned at Guindy
campus, Madras for two years and was shifted to Anantapur in 1948. It was
in the year
1958 that the college was shifted to the present permanent buildings accommodating
the Administrative block, Laboratories, the Engineering Departments, Library
and the Hostel blocks.
During the first 25 years of its existence, it was affiliated to the Madras
and S V University and produced distinguished alumni, who are holding high
positions, in India and abroad. It has great tradition to be proud of. Fortified
with the traditional values and dedicated spirit of the staff and the students,
it would rise upto any occasion or meet any challenge confidently.
In the year 1972 Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University was formed and
the college became a constituent college of the University. With this a new
era was ushered in Technical Education. Consequently there was an impetus to
the academic activity of this college. Though the College was initially established
to provide basic technical education, with the passage of time, it emerged
out, as one of the colleges to fulfil the technological need of our fast developing
India with highly professional and well-trained graduates.
