JNTUA College of Engineering, Anantapur stands overhead on a solid establishment of past grandness and esteem. This school was begun in the year 1946, under the post-war reproduction program and worked at Guindy grounds, Madras, for a long time, and was moved to Anantapur in 1948.
In 1958, the school was moved to the present changeless structures pleasing the Administrative piece, Laboratories, the Engineering Departments, Library, and the Hostel squares.
- Amid the initial 25 years of its reality, it was subsidiary to the Madras and S V University. It delivered recognized graduated class, holding high positions, in India and abroad. It has a great convention to be pleased with. Sustained with the staff's customary esteems and committed soul and the understudies, it would ascend to any event or address any difficulty unquestionably.
- JNTUA College of Engineering turned into a constituent school of the framed Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, in 1972. It is a constituent school of recently shaped JNT University Anantapur, Anantapur, since August 2008.