Bangalore University, established in 1886, provides affiliation to over 500 colleges, with a total student enrolment exceeding 300,000.
[3] University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering was established in the year 1917, by Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya, At present, the UVCE is the only engineering college under the Bangalore University.
Bengaluru also has many private Engineering Colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University.
[4][5] The M. P. Birla Institute of Fundamental Research has a branch located in Bangalore.
[6] Bengaluru has a range of educational institutions from schools to Aerospace Engineering, Agriculture, Animation&Design, Biotechnology, Business Management, to Nanotechnology institutes.