The Visvesvaraya Technological University is a public state university, the head office of which is situated in Belgaum in the state of Karnataka, India. The university was established in the year 1998, as per the VTU Act 1994 by the Government of Karnataka.
VTU is named after Sir M. Visvesvaraya, who was the only engineer to be awarded with ‘Bharat Ratna’, which means the jewel of India. The Bharat Ratna award is the highest civilian award in India.
The university has also established offices at Bengaluru, Gulbarga and Mysore. The VTU has affiliate more than 180 engineering colleges and has trained more than 2.5 lakh engineers, under 27 undergraduate and 74 post graduate programs. The university also conducts doctoral and research programs in 300 departments in 100 colleges.