With the intention to provide quality and world-class education to the aspiring students of Guntur, Prakasam, Krishna and other nearby districts NARASARAOPET TOWN is selected to establish UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING (UCEN-JNTUK) in 2016. UCEN was established as per G.O.RT NO 122 dated 6-6-2016. In the very second year of its inception, the Government of Andhra Pradesh allotted 85.94 Acre land in Kakani village, 2Km from the holy hill Kotappakonda. The design intake is 300 at 60 students per each of 5 branches, namely Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, and Computer Science and Engineering. The College was temporarily housed in NBT Degree College campus in Palnadu Road, Narasaraopet before moving to its permanent campus at Kakani.