Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College

Siddhartha Academy of General & Technical Education, better known as Siddhartha Academy, came into being in the year 1975 with a Corpus Fund of Rs.25 lakhs (Rs.2.5 million) through the efforts of 250 life members drawn from different walks of life having a philanthropic bent of mind. This was registered as a Society under the Societies Registration Act in the same year. The main objective of the Academy is to establish and run educational institutions offering education at all levels in the fields of general, technical & professional education. The Academy started its strategic mission of spreading education in Vijayawada in Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh. The establishment of Siddhartha Educational Institutions followed by the establishment of other educational institutions in the last 28 years transformed this city into one of the major educational centres. As Indias second largest Railway Junction and as one of the biggest Agro Commodity Trading Centres and as the commercial hub krishna region, Vijayawada has become the second important place in the state after Visakhapatnam. Today, Siddhartha Academy is running 14 Educational Institutions, three colleges offering Intermediate(+2) and Degree (Under Graduate) courses for men and women along with a Post Graduate Centre (Graduate Programmes), two Schools one of which is fully residential, two Engineering colleges, a medical college, a college of Law, a college of Education(B.Ed), a college of Pharmaceutical Sciences and a college of Hotel Management & Catering Technology. All Siddhartha Institutions are duly approved by respective Central and State Governments and other concerned bodies.

The institution is located on 24.05 acres (97,300 m²) of land in Kanuru on the outskirts of Vijayawada city at a distance of about 8 km (5.0 mi) from the city centre, on the Vijayawada-Machilipatnam Highway (NH 65).

The College has about 5400 students, more than 350 faculty ( Faculty with 88 Ph.D.s & 100 pursuing Ph.D.s )and around 200 technical and supporting staff. Extracurricular opportunities include NCC, NSS, Students Chapters of IEEE, social clubs and sports & games.

The college is an autonomous college affiliated to the JNTUK, Kakinada. The college offers various UG and PG academic programs leading to the award of degrees such as B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA and MBA with English as medium of instruction. The programs are conducted on semester system and each semester provides for the minimum of 90 instructional days. The regulations in respect of the academic program of study are prepared and approved by the Academic council, the highest academic body in the college. The curriculum for the program of study is prepared by the respective board of studies and approved by the academic council. After successfully completing the program as per the relevant regulations JNUTK, Kakinada will award the degree.

• Over 75000 volumes of Text and Reference Books
• High speed Internet (50Mbit/s) and Intranet (1GB) Facilities
• Well-equipped Digital Library and e-Books
• Member of AICTE-INDEST Consortium
• DELNET and Inter-University Connectivity
• Open courseware- NPTEL, MIT, Stanford.

• Electronics for You (EFY) (2010) in 20th position in the country among private institutions and 4th position in the country as a Technology Hub
• Competition Success Review (2010) 27th position in the country / 5th position in the state of Andhra Pradesh
• India Today (2010) – Ranked among top 20 professional colleges in the state
• Adjudged as one of the Best Engineering Colleges in the Country by National Survey agencies such as Out Look, Data Quest, Competitive Success Review, Careers 360 and Higher Education Review

Research in Telematics, INDIA

TIFAC-CORE in Telematics is a collaborative effort of TIFAC (representing government), VR Siddhartha Engineering College and Industries in the domain of Telematics. The centre was launched on 1 February 2009.

• Ram Gopal Varma(B.Tech 1978-1983), Indian Filmmaker
• Lagadapati Rajagopal(B.Tech Mechanical 1978-1983) Industrialist and politician[2]

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