and Communication Engineering and Computer Science Engineering. The institute runs the Civil Engineering and Architecture courses at the Jnana Bharathi Campus, occupying an area of about 50 acres. The college provides hostel facilities for boys and girls separately, both in the Jnana Bharathi and K.R. Circle campus. Admissions Candidates who qualify in the Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET) / Aptitude test conducted by the Government of Karnataka are eligible for admission to the Under Graduate Engineering / Architecture courses. Candidates belonging to Union Territories / other states are also admitted to the college under the Central Government quota. Candidates who qualify through GATE and PGCET are eligible to the Post Graduate programmes. Candidates who qualify in the test conducted by Bangalore University are eligible for Research programmes leading to M.Tech. in Engineering and Doctoral programmes. Admission to UVCE is strictly done on the basis of merit. Academics The institution offers 7 undergraduate (B.Tech. / B. Arch) and 24 postgraduate (M.Tech. / M. Arch.) programmes. Student life College events Civista It is a cultural fest organized every year by a Civil Engineering department which is situated in Jnanabharathi Campus Milagro Milagro is the annual inter-collegiate cultural fest that is organized in UVCE. This event draws crowds of up to 2,000 and is organized during March - April. Inspiron Since its inception in 2009, Inspiron has been hosted by The Training and Placement Office, UVCE. Impetus IMPETUS is a national-level technical extravaganza organised by IEEE UVCE which was started in the year 2001. Corporate companies like IBM, Yahoo!, NIIT, Motorola, Cognizant, Infosys, DELL etc. and Government organisations like BWSSB and BESCOM sponsor the fest. The event hosts both technical events like Circuit Debugging, OSP, Web Designing, Technical Quiz and non-technical events like Mad Ads, Ad-Venture, Team building event, Marketing event, Mock stock etc. Kagada Kagada is a National Level Annual Technical Paper Presentation Contest organized by IEEE UVCE. Convocation Every year convocation is held in June, where degrees are awarded to graduating students. Notable alumni Venugopal K R, Former Principal UVCE and Vice Chancellor Bangalore University. Venkatesh K. R. Kodur, University professor at Michigan State University and a pioneer in structural fire design. Professor S. S. Iyengar, Ryder professor and director of Computer Science at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA V. K. Aatre, scientist, former head, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) N. Ahmed, Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer and Engineering,