History
Bapatla Engineering College was established in 1981 by MP Kona Prabhakar Rao, with an intake of 180 students in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Electronics and Communications Engineering branches. The college was initially affiliated to Andhra University and, from 1984, to Nagarjuna University.
An additional section with an intake of 60 was sanctioned for the Mechanical Engineering branch in 1987. The college offers nine B.Tech degree courses with an intake of 630. An additional 10% intake is through admission in the second year. The college offers six postgraduate courses in sciences including MCA with a total intake of 234.
Quote from the Bapatla Education Society - "A significant step towards the fulfilment of the laudable objectives with which the Education Society was started, was taken in 1981 with the establishment of the Bapatla Engineering College, a gift to this area of Late Sri Kona Prabhakara Rao, Founder Secretary, Bapatla Education Society and former Governor, Maharashtra. With the starting of the Bapatla Public School in 1987 and later the opening of M.Sc.(Maths), M.Sc.(Electronics). The Bapatla College of Pharmacy and The Bapatla Law College in 1995-96 the Society's unending quest for expansion acquired another memorable dimension, viz, that of having courses ranging from K.G to P.G under same management."
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