P.E.S College of Engineering, mandya is one of the pioneer Engineering College in India. It is affiliated to the Vishweshwaraiah Technological University and is recognized by the All India Technical Education Council, New Delhi. It is an institution functioning under the grant-in-aid scheme of Government of Karnataka. The College was established in the year 1962 by People's Education Society currently known as People's Education Trust (r), with the help of philanthropic farmers of Mandya District. The sole objective of the college was to promote Technical Education among the students of rural areas. The Society was founded by late Sri K.V. Shankare Gowda, former Education Minister of Government of Karnataka. He was a person with a missionary zeal and long cherished ambition to promote and disseminate knowledge, serving generally cause of education.

         P.E.S. College of Engineering was established on an expanse of 62 Acres with only three branches of Engineering Viz., Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. In 1971 the Electronics and Communication branch was commenced. Automobile Engineering and Industrial and Production Engineering branches were started in 1980. In1983 the branch of Computer Science was started and that of Environmental Engineering in the year 1987. In addition to the above 8 branches in undergraduate engineering, the institute also offers Post Graduate Courses Master of technology in Environmental Engineering and Master of Computer Application and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Computing.

Sri K.S.Sachidananda   Secretary P.E.T