List of Indian engineering colleges in Colonial India .i.e 1947
The Following Contains the List of Indian engineering colleges in Colonial India .i.e before 1947, pre independace era
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Engineering college | Location | Established | Remarks |
Thomason College of Civil EngineeringB | Roorkee, Uttarakhand | 1847 | Later known as University of Roorkee and now known as the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee |
College of Engineering, Pune | Pune, Maharashtra | 1854 | Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (1861–1962) is Alumni of COEP. Engineers Day in India is Celebrated on his Birthday |
Bengal Engineering College (formerly affiliated to University of Calcutta) | Shibpur, West Bengal | 1856 | Later known as Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur and now known as the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur |
College of Engineering, Guindy | Madras | 1794 | Started as survey school in May 1794. Upgraded to an engineering college in 1858. |
Indian Institute of Science(Tata Institute) | Bangalore | 1911 | |
Bengal Technical Institute (National Council of Education), Jadavpur | Jadavpur, Calcutta | 1905 | Now known as Jadavpur University. |
University College of Science and Technology, (University of Calcutta) | Rajabazar, Calcutta | 1914 | Also known as Rajabazar Science College campus. |
College of Engineering, Bangalore | Bangalore | 1917 | Now called the University Visvesvaraya College Of Engineering |
Banaras Engineering CollegeB | Varanasi | 1919 | Now called the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi |
Harcourt Butler Technological Institute(Now HBTU) | Kanpur | 1920 | "Government Research Institute, Cawnpore" was established in 1920, which was renamed as "Government Technological Institute" in 1921. |
Indian School Of Mines, JharkhandB | Dhanbad | 1926 | Now known as Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad |
Laxminarayan Institute of Technology | Nagpur | 1942 | |
College of Engineering, Bihar | Patna | 1886 | Established as a survey training school in 1886. In 2004 the government of India upgraded the college to National Institute of Technology, Patna |
College of Engineering, Trivandrum | Trivandrum | 1939 | |
Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute | Bombay | 1887 | Established as a diploma school in 1887. V. J. T. Institute started with only two departments, namely the Sir J. J. School of Mechanical Engineering and the Ripon Textile School for the two branches of industry |
Annamalai University | Tamil Nadu | 1929 | |
Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai | Mumbai | 1933 | |
Arthur Hope College of Technology, Coimbatore | Coimbatore | 1945 | |
Government Engineering College, Jabalpur | Jabalpur | 1947 | |
PEC University of Technology | Chandigarh | 1921 | Punjab Engineering College is one of India's pre-eminent institutions in the field of applied sciences, particularly engineering and technology. |
Delhi Polytechnic (DCE/DTU) | Delhi | 1941 | Renamed as Delhi College of Engineering in 1962 under the University of Delhi. Later, it was granted university status in the year 2009 and renamed as Delhi Technological University. |
National Institute of Engineering(NIE), mysore | Mysore | 1946 | Now Autonomous under VTU Karnataka |
Faculty of Technology and Engineering, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara | Vadodara | 1890 | The Faculty of Technology and Engineering is one of the 14 faculties at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. |
Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology (GCELT), Kolkata | Kolkata | 1919 | The Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, often referred to as GCELT, is an institute affiliated to MAKAUT(Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology ) |
Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology (GCECT), Kolkata | Kolkata | 1941 | The Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology, often referred to as GCECT, is an institute affiliated to MAKAUT(Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology ) |
University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad | Hyderabad | 1929 | The University College of Engineering, Osmania University (UCE) is an autonomous engineering college located in Hyderabad, India |
Andhra University | Visakhapatnam | 1926 | Andhra University was established in 1926 by the Madras University Act to serve the entire linguistic region of Andhra as a residential teaching-cum-affiliating University. The institution has Sir C.R. Reddy as its founder Vice-Chancellor and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan as the second Vice-Chancellor |
JNTU College of Engineering | Anantapur | 1946 | Started in 1946 as extension of College of Engineering Guindy, later became part of SV University and finally part of JNT University. |
B.M.S. College of Engineering | Bangalore | 1946 | B.M.S. College of Engineering (BMSCE) was started in 1946 in Bangalore, India. |
Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya (BVM) | Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand | 1948 | From 2015 onwards it has been granted autonomy. Now it is an autonomous institution affiliation with Gujarat Technological University. |
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