The University has the jurisdiction throughout Karnataka and at present 111 Engineering colleges are affiliated to it. The intake every year for Engineering under this University inclusive of PG is around 38,000. The University has 25 branches of Bachelors Degree and 54 branches of M.Tech courses. B.E (Bio-Technology) is the UG course introduced in 2002-03 in 21 colleges. In addition, the University has MBA and MCA courses. The university also offers M.Sc. (Engg.) by Research and Ph.D programmes. In the year under consideration, the University has 249 registered candidates for M.Sc. (Engg.) by Research and Ph.D in 80 Research Centres in 24 affiliated colleges.

The University has very successfully achieved the tremendous task of bringing various colleges affiliated earlier to different Universities, with different syllabi, different procedures and different traditions under one umbrella. The University implemented common curriculum for UG in 1998 and revised syllabi again in 2002 for all the courses and uniform procedures were adopted. As a further step in standardization, the subjects & syllabi of related branches are being made common upto the fourth semester. The University has already revised the syllabus of MBA with effect from the academic year 2001-2002 and has now revised the syllabi of all M.Tech courses & MCA. The University plans to bring in further flexibility in the curriculum, so that any changes or revisions may be introduced particularly with respect to electives, as and when the technology changes or the need arises.

The first batch consisting of approximately 13,000 students of Under Graduate B.E. / B.Tech. students who were admitted in the academic year 1998-99 came out of the portals of this University as graduates during the month of July 2002. Four batches of M.Tech., 3 batches of MBA and 2 batches of MCA students have so far passed out of this University. The total number of Post-Graduates who have completed their studies in this University is around 5000.

The University has MOU’s with various leading organisations like IBM, INTEL Asia Electronics Inc., Ingersoll-Rand (India) Ltd., Bangalore and Microsoft. These MOU’s will help in various ways to train the faculty, conduct teachers training workshops, student projects and enable the colleges affiliated to the University to get software at a highly subsidized rate. Already Intel has arranged many training programmes for Engineering College Teachers. 153 teachers were trained by Microsoft. These MOU’s will further the Technological growth of the state. Many of the industries are showing keen interest in participating in the curricular activities of the University and the University is negotiating with them for such participation.

Visvesvaraya Technological University, with the consent from the authorities of the University, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with (1) Diamant Metallplastic GmbH, Germany and (2) Diamant Triump Metallplastic Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India, to establish Indo-German Institute of Technology to impart training in latest state-of-art technologies at SKSJIT, Bangalore.

The DMP shall supply the latest technical know-how for the said Joint Venture (IGIT) comprising of Training, literature, Videos and Power point Demonstrations for Dynamic and Static Moulding Technologies, Cold Welding Methods, Capilliary Metal Impregnation Techniques, Metal Preservation and Conservation Methods and metal making industries of high precision.

VTU proposes to have world wide electronic presence by establishing data network interconnecting the VTU campus at Machche, four regional offices and all the affiliated colleges of VTU in a secure private network and open up access to this network to the worldwide communities for collaborative learning using Internet technology.

In this direction, a Campus wide network at Machche with a fiber optic backbone, having about 1000 data access points interconnecting all the existing and proposed buildings is being set up. The campus network uses the state of art network tiered architecture with Edge and Core switches and scalable distributed network topology. This network will meet the computing demand of PG students in the campus, provide e-learning environment, access to digital library, support examination, administration work and more importantly have sufficient bandwidth for Videoconferencing from any network access point.

Further, the VCONET: VTU Colleges Network will enable sharing of faculty expertise among colleges, collaboration among peer groups, even out digital disparity among rural and urban engineering colleges, provide infrastructure for online examination system, portal to different digital libraries all over the world and support many more innovative applications on the net expected in future.
The University intends to start Nodal Training Institute for training the staff of engineering colleges similar to the staff training colleges functioning in other Universities. A project report in this regard is sent to the appropriate agencies for funding.

Campus and Regional Centres:
The main campus is in Belgaum and has regional centres in Bangalore, Mysore and Gulbarga.

Looking into the vast geographical jurisdiction and large number of colleges spread over the entire State of Karnataka, the University has set up its Head Office at Belgaum and four Regional Offices at Bangalore, Mysore, Gulbarga and Belgaum, which are mainly the four Revenue Divisional Head Quarters. The Regional Offices have been set up as per the provisions under section 18 of Chapter V of VTU Act 1994, for effective administration. The University has plans to develop its regional campuses in Bangalore, Mysore and Gulbarga. The Governament has allotted 15 Acres and 3 Guntas of land free of cost at Gulburga, and KIADB has allotted 20 Acres at Mysore at a cost of Rs. 5.00 Lakhs per Acre.  Foundation laying ceremony for the VTU regional office at Gulbarga was held on 14-02-2004 at Gulbarga.

Addresses:

University Main Campus

Jnana Sangama

Belgaum

Bangalore Centre

R V Teachers College Campus,
Jayanagar, II Block,
Bangalore
Ph: 080-26563266 fax: 080-26560222

Website:

vtu.ac.in

The academic scope of this University includes all types of health sciences such as Medical, Dental, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Unani, Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences, Pharmacy, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Speech and Hearing, Hospital management, Medical laboratory technology, Radiography etc… This University is the apex authority in Karnataka for affiliation, admissions, examinations, award of degrees and maintenance of the uniformity and standardisation of all the health related academic programs and degrees.

History
In1970s there was a phenomenal increase in the number of institutions and students admitted to various courses of medical and allied health sciences in Karnataka. This warranted an immediate need for regulation, monitoring and standardisation of the curricula as well as the evaluation system. In background the government of Karnataka, in 1976 took a bold and innovative decision to establish a single University of Health Sciences for the entire state. Later, even the Central Council of Health made a recommendation for the establishment of Health Universities in all the States. In 1994, the Government of Karnataka passed an Act to establish the University of Health Sciences and the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences was born. Thus a long cherished dream of having all the institutions of health sciences of Karnataka comes under one roof became a reality with the functioning of this University from 1st June 1996.

Campus
Currently Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences does not have a big green campus like Bangalore University. However, it is presently functioning from the camps of a government hospital.

Address:
Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
4th ‘T’ Block, Jayanagar,
Bangalore – 560 041

Website:
rguhs.ac.in

Bangalore University - located on a sprawling 1100 acres of Jnana Bharathi campus and another huge City Campus is one of the largest universities of Asia and also one of the oldest Universities of India.

Five Star Status:
This university is a part of The Association of Indian Universities (AIU) and has the University Grants Commission (UGC) recognition. The degrees offered by this University are recognised world over. It is accredited by NAAC and has got the Five Star Status since 2001. Even otherwise, the Banalore University is noted as one of the leading Universities of the Country. The alumni of this University includes several great personalities like Nobel Laureate Sir C V Raman.

3rd Oldest University of Karnataka:
The Mysore University (1916) was the First University to be established in Karnataka. This was followed by the Karnataka University - Dharwad (1949) and the Bangalore University (1964).

Originally, the Bangalore University was an offshoot of the Mysore University, primarily to consolidate the institutions of Higher learning located in Bangalore and Kolar District.

Historically, the root of the Bangalore University is in the Central College which was started in 1886 by the British Government. It was then endowed with the University status on July 10, 1964 by the Government of Mysore State. Thus, the Central College and The University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE) constituted the original institutions under the umbrella of this university and the Central College became the University Campus. But, in 1973, the University moved to the new Jnana Bharathi Campus located on 1100 acres of land. However, the historic Central College Campus even today remains as the City Campus of Bangalore University.

Though this University was originally intended to be a federal university, it eventually emerged as an affiliating University because of the Karnataka State Universities Ordinance of 1975.

Jnana Bharathi Campus:
At present, the Jnana Bharathi Campus houses the administrative office, a large number of post-graduate departments, Directorates, Centres of higher learning, Gandhi Bhavan, Ambedkar Bhavan, NSS Bhavan, Outdoor Stadium and other support services.

City Campus:
The Central College Campus retained as the city campus houses the main examination wing with the office of Registrar Evaluation, city offices of the Vice-Chancellor, Registrar, Finance (Examination part), Academic Staff College, Directorate of Correspondence Courses and Distance Education Centre, Directorate of College Development Council, a few postgraduate departments and support services. Besides, the college also has the Central College Cricket Pavilion where the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) was first established and trained several cricketers of International repute. In fact, Nobel Laureate Sir C V Raman announced his Scientific exploration in this prestigious Central College campus of Bangalore University.

Apart from this, in the vicinity of the city campus, the University has two constituent colleges, the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (U.V.C.E started in 1917). The third constituent college, the University College of Physical Education (formerly known as the Government College of Physical Education, started in 1959) is located in the JB Campus.

 6 Faculties:
Academically, the university is structured into 6 faculties
1. Arts
2. Science
3. Commerce and Management
4. Education
5. Law
6. Engineering.

It has 41 post-graduate departments, one post-graduate Centre at Kolar, (started during 1994-95), three constituent colleges, 473 affiliated colleges (of which 88 have PG courses) and several other Centers and Directorates of higher learning and research under its purview. The University offers 51 Post-graduate courses. (Note: These numbers may have changed since 2007.)

Address:
Bangalore University
Jnana Bharathi Campus
Jnana Bharathi Post
Bangalore - 560 056
Karntaka, India

Website:
bub.ernet.in