History
In 1917, the then Diwan of Mysore Sir M. Visvesvaraya felt a need to have an engineering college in the state as the Civil Engineering College Madras and College of Engineering Poona were unable to accommodate enough students from Mysore State.
He started the college in 1917 in Bangalore. It was started as School of Engineering with 20 students in Civil and Mechanical engineering branches in the PWD building. It was the fifth engineering college to be started in India and the first one in Mysore State. In 1965, the name of the college was changed to University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering after its founder.
Situated at K R Circle and in the neighbourhood of Vidhana Soudha, Government of Karnataka, the city campus is housing the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering. Department of Electronics Engineering and Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Amidst the Jnana Bharathi campus, the hub of Bangalore University, Post graduate Academic activities, the Engineering campus has departments of Civil Engineering and Architecture.
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