List of engineering colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University

There are 219 engineering colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), which is in Belgaum in the state of Karnataka, India.

Autonomous colleges are bestowed academic independence allowing them to form their own syllabus and conduct their own examinations.

An autonomous college enjoys academic independence which gives it the freedom to revise the syllabus with time and follow a schedule which is more suitable for the set curriculum.

Almost all engineering colleges in Karnataka are affiliated to VTU, notable exceptions being University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering,[2] National Institute of Technology Karnataka,[3] PES University[4] and Manipal Institute of Technology.

Autonomy is granted in order to obtain better placements for students, to have better college-industry interaction, and also to enable colleges to continuously update and modernize the curriculum.