School of Engineering (ESUT)
Bhadradri Kothagudem

In 1957, The Department of Mining engineering was started, as a wing of College of Engineering, Osmania University and was shifted to Kothagudem, the town of coal industry in 1976 and it was named as Kothagudem School of Mines (KSM). It is the first mining engineering college in Andhra Pradesh.

In 1994 col­lege was shifted from Osma­nia Uni­ver­sity to Kakatiya University Presently hold­ing the name, Uni­ver­sity Col­lege of Engi­neer­ing, Kakatiya Uni­ver­sity, it is the con­stituent col­lege of Kakatiya Uni­ver­sity. The two depart­ments Depart­ment of Com­puter Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing and Depart­ment of Elec­tri­cal and Elec­tron­ics Engi­neer­ing were estab­lished in 1996 and PG courses M.B.A. and M.C.A. were started in the year 2001. The engi­neer­ing sec­tions like Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing, Civil Engi­neer­ing and Sci­ence sec­tions like Physics, Chem­istry, Math­e­mat­ics are meant to cater to the needs of these courses.

The col­lege with annual intake of 250 engi­neer­ing stu­dents, hav­ing qual­i­fied and expe­ri­enced fac­ulty in home to the cream of tal­ent in this area.Two more new courses(Self finance) Elec­tron­ics and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Engi­neer­ing (ECE) and Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy (INF) were added to the col­lege from the aca­d­e­mic year 2011 – 2012.

The college is also having hostels for boys and girls individually in the campus(only for CSE/EEE/MINING Branches). Quarters for Professors, Assistant Professors and Non-Teaching staff are also established in college campus. College campus is covered with nearly 400 Acres of area with peaceful environment and also has indoor stadium, play ground.