BMS College of Engineering (BMSCE), Bangalore was established by Late Sri. B. M. Sreenivasaiah who was a great philanthropist and visionary in the year 1946 in the green city of India - Bangalore. A college that was started with only 3 undergraduate programmes now after a period of 74 years of completion has an academic department in undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate level programmes. In the engineering colleges ranking 2021 released by the NIRF, the institute has secured 98th rank. There has been decreased in the ranking as BMSCE was ranked 73rd in NIRF Engineering Ranking 2020. The college is accredited by NAAC with A++ grade. BMS College of Engineering has been affiliated with the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU).
The college has a practice of imparting education that is based on the outcome. The strength of the college is its student base which is the largest among all colleges in Karnataka. There are about 5000 students in the college at a time for pursuing their studies. In the 14 research centres developed by the college, there are about 350 scholars that pursue research studies pursuing their Ph.D. BMSCE provides not only good education but also facilitates good infrastructure and great learning facilities which eventually leads to producing students that are industry-ready.
BMSCE is very well connected with the city and there are various modes of transport available to reach the college. The college is at a mere distance of 5 km from the railway station which takes around 15 mins to reach the campus by way of auto-rickshaw or cab which are easily available. The college is at a distance of 40 km from the Kempegowda International Airport at Bengaluru and will take around 1-hour time from the airport to reach the college. Cabs are available at the airport to travel to the college.
The BMS Education Trust looks after the proper functioning of the hostels. It appoints wardens at all the 5 units that are created inside the campus for managing proper discipline and administration in the campus. There are 2 boy's hostels. The college also has two other buildings one of which is regarded as the main dining hall of the hostel and the other one is used as a multipurpose hall which also has the facility to accommodate around 180 students for the purpose of dining. All the units of the hostel have a wardens office along with facilities like TV lounge, spacious rooms with a solar water heater in each unit, playgrounds, volleyball court, power backup, washing machine, ro water, gymnasium, 24x7 wifi facilities, two-wheeler parking, etc.
