JNTU Kakinada

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada (JNTU Kakinada)

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada (JNTU Kakinada) is a public university, in Kakinada, East Godavari district, north of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is one of India's leading universities focusing on engineering. The university has been accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) of University Grants Commission (UGC) with an "A" grade. JNTU Kakinada is known for its EAMCET entrance test where over 250,000 students take the test every year for around 600 seats in its undergraduate engineering courses. All the selected top candidates for engineering programs enroll at the University College of Engineering (Autonomous) Kakinada.

Admissions:

Admission into B.Tech is based on EAMCET or ECET ranks; admission into M.Tech is based on Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering or PGECET scores; and admission into MCA is based on ICET rank. Students in the state with the highest grades in the above entrance examinations get admission to the college.

Admission into its undergraduate engineering courses is extremely competitive with less than 1% of the students from the Open Category getting selected to study at the University College of Engineering Kakinada, JNTUK through EAMCET entrance examination every year.

Constituent colleges:

JNTU Kakinada has three constituent university colleges, University College of Engineering, Kakinada, University College of Engineering, Vizianagaram and University College of Engineering, Narasaraopet. On 13 February 2019 the campuses of JNTUK Vizianagaram and Andhra University PG centre, Vizianagaram merged to form Gurazada Apparao University.

Rankings:

University College of Engineering, Kakinada was ranked 97 among engineering colleges by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2018.