Rural Engineering College, Bhalki in Bidar district located at the northern tip of Karnataka established in September 1982 is one of the best engineering colleges not only in Karnataka but in whole of India. It has got complete characteristics of a Regional Engineering College where about 50% students are from Karnataka and the rest 50% are from all parts of India i.e. Bihar, Jharkhand, Delhi, UP, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Assam, Manipur, West Bengal, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh etc.

This college is Approved by AICTE, New Delhi; Affiliated to VTU, Belgum and sanctioned by Govt of Karnataka. Its various courses are approved by NBA, AICTE, New Delhi.

The college has very magnificent building and good infrastructure featuring about 50,000 sq.m. builtup area, well equipped laboratories, workshops, drawing halls, seminar halls, big library having about 48,000 books and more than 1500 journals including e-subscribed, lecture halls, computer centre, departmental computer centres, browsing centres with broadband internet connectivity, 03 boys hostels accommodating about 700 boys and 02 girls hostels accommodating 350 girls, canteen, bank, gymnasium, sport facilities, Training & Placement Cell, NSS, Student Welfare Office, EDP Cell, STEP, Co-operative store and consultancy cell etc.

The college assists students in Training & Placement activities. Our placement record is 80% for eligible students. Tilldate more than 6200 students have passed and are well placed in Government, Private and Public sector organizations in India and abroad and they are doing very well.

The institution is the chosen centre for satellite based education training programme through EDUSAT and VSAT by VTU & ISRO. The college also acts as a Monitoring Centre for “Mahiti Sindhu” a free computer education programme for Government High School students of Bidar District. The College runs the training programs for rural students sponsored by The Government Toolroom & Training Centre (GTTC). Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd., Government of India and Government of Karnataka have sanctioned Solar Energy Park at our college.

There is no Capitation Fee/Donation. There is complete transparency specially in admission. For meritorious students scoring more than 75% marks and above, fee concession is provided. Similarly top rankers of Karnataka CET students also get concession in college fees.