Best Civil Engineering College in Bangalore


Dayanand Sagar is regarded as one of the best civil engineering college in Bangalore. The undergraduate course offered under the program is B.E in Civil Engineering.

Furthermore, the post graduate programs include; MTech programme in Structural engineering and M.Tech programme in Highway technology (CHT) (CSE).

Duration of the Undergraduate course in the department of Civil Engineering is for a period of about 4 years.

The eligibility criteria for the same is for candidates who have finished their PUC (10+2) with minimum 45% aggregate in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics and should have been present for atleast one of the entrance exams (CET,COMED-K,JEE)

Whereas, duration of the post graduate course in the department of Civil Engineering is for a period of about 2 years (4 semesters)

It offers specialization in Structural Engineering (CSE) and highway technology (CHT).

The eligibility criteria for the same is as follows – Candidates who have got their B.E/B.tech/AMIE or equivalent degree and must have secured not less than 50% marks in aggregate in Computer Science / Electronics and Communication engineering/ Information Science/ Telecommunication engineering/ Electrical and electronics engineering.

The department has spacious class rooms, tutorial rooms equipped with projectors. Other than that, well equipped laboratories with UPS support are provided for students to work at ease. The department also has a library of about 120 sq. feet consisting of about 1000+ books with a seating capacity of 10. The Library facilities here are state-of-the-art following the latest automated RFID technology and Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering is the first Private sector Engineering College in India to install this system. This latest system is user friendly and provides access to any book available in few minutes. The Library has a huge collection of over a lakh Books & E-books, along with CD's and DVD's apart from latest Journals and Periodicals.

Civil Engineering is widely regarded as the mother of all engineering branches. It is a broad discipline that merges various specializations like Environmental engineering, Geotechnical engineering, Hydraulics and Water resources engineering, Construction materials and Management, Transportation engineering, Structural engineering , Planning and Architecture.

The department has also taken an initiative in developing short online tutorials to help the students understand the fundamental topics in various subjects.

There are a number of news and events reported under this section. From, Engineer’s day 2019 report to 35th National conference, Student project programme, Sagartech 2019, Online brainstorming workshops, Webinars on entrepreneurial mindset , National seminars, 5 day faculty development programme and seminar proceedings.

In terms of Research, the Science and Engineering research board has authorized Rs. 100000/- for the conduction of Seminar Symposia on “Use of solar energy as a water pumping system for irrigation purpose” and Indian space research organization has authorized Rs. 50000/- for conducting Seminar Symposia on; ‘Role of GIS/GPS in Integrated water’.

Dayanand Sagar provides the best placements and students are widely known for getting placed in top companies like Reliance, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, MU Sigma, CTS etc. The placement percentage of eligible students is 10.73% as per the report in the year 2018-2019.