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Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering

engineering college in Shimoga, Karnataka, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ6165985
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Jawaharlal Nehru New College of Engineering or JNNCE is an engineering college established in 1980 by the National Education Society (NES) in Shimoga, Karnataka, India. It is affiliated to the Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum and is accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). The college campus is spread over an area of more than 55 acres (220,000 m2). The college offers seven undergraduate engineering degrees (B.E) and four postgraduate degrees. The Research and Development (R & D) centers in engineering and business departments offer Ph.D. and M.Sc. (Engineering) degrees by research.

Facilities

The campus is spread over an area of more than 55 acres. The railway station is about 3 km from college and the KSRTC bus stand is nearly 6 km. There is also a Post Office inside the college campus.

Hostels

The college has separate hostel facilities both for boys and girls.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jawaharlal, Nehru and National providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6165985. Authority coordinates are 13.966, 75.613. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.