Ghousia College of Engineering (GCE) was started in the year 1980. Ali Janab Haji Nabi Sheriff Saheb started the college in the name of his father Ali Janab Mohammed Ghouse. It is Owned and Managed by Ghousia Industrial & Engineering Trust (GIET), Bangalore and is a unit of Al-Ameen Movement. The College is approved by All India Council for Technical (AICTE), New Delhi, and is affiliated to Visveswariah Technological University (VTU) Belgaum. 2004-2005 was the Silver Jubilee Year of our College. The college was awarded for excellence and quality technical education in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
Over the past years, GCE has developed very well and has been recognized as one of the good Engineering Colleges in Karnataka State. The College has well qualified, experienced and dedicated faculty and supporting staff, state of the art laboratory and workshop facilities, Computer facilities, Library and Information Center, outdoor and indoor games, multi-gym, air conditioned seminar hall and open air Amphi Theatre, round the clock Internet facilities & separate hostels for Boys and Girls on campus.
The College offers courses leading to BE Degree in six disciplines, M.Tech., courses in four streams, Research Courses leading to M.Sc., Engg., PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Civil Engineering, Physics and Chemistry. All the departments in the college are accredited by NBA. As on date there are 18 doctorates and all other post graduates among staff members and another 30 are doing doctorate degrees.
The College has bagged several university ranks both in P.G and U.G courses So far, about 12,000 students have graduated in various disciplines of engineering from our college. Many of our College Alumni are holding very high positions in a number of well known organizations, not only in our country but also abroad. The College has a full-fledged placement and Training Centre. This Centre organizes several training programmes related to development of technical & soft skills to our college students. The Placement and Training Centre has enabled our college students to participate in recruitment programmes of several leading organizations.
The college provides facilities to students to take part in co-curricular and extra curricular activities. The College also has an Environment Cell, Entrepreneurship Development Cell, ISTE Staff and Students Chapter and IEEE students chapter. Students are encouraged to participate in inter collegiate competitions in outdoor / indoor sports / games, cultural events and technical paper presentation competitions. The College also organizes several Inter collegiate Sports tournaments and technical paper presentation competitions. Many of our college students have represented VTU in various sports and games. GHOUSIANA is the annual cultural festival organized every year to bring out and exhibit the talents of our students. Celebration of Graduation Day has been started from 2013 batch.
The College encourages faculty members through incentives and sops to acquire higher degrees, to publish text books/papers and participate in Seminar/Workshop/Conferences that are held not only within our country but also abroad. Ghousia College of Engineering, Ramanagaram has been ranked & graded AA+ with 10th rank in state of Karnataka in recent issue of “Careers 360” Best Engineering colleges in India. We are also in the top 100 best engineering colleges in India which includes all the IIT,BIT,NIT also as per Dataquest Magazine.
Dr N.S. Kumar