VTU is one of the biggest Technological University in India, having 186 colleges affiliated to it with Under Graduate course in 28 disciplines and Post Graduate Programmes in 71 disciplines. The intake of UG level is about 67100 students and about 12666 at the PG level. The University has 13 QIP Centres in various affiliated colleges and 16 Extension Centres offering PG Programmes. There are over 305 department across the affiliated colleges recognized as Research Centres. At present over 1800 students / faculty have registered for Ph.D. degree and over 180 students have registered for M.Sc.(Engg. by Research). For the academic year 2009-10, the University has awarded Ph.D. degree to about 120 candidates and (M.Sc.(Engg.) degree to about 7 candidates. The University has MBA and M.Tech. Programmes at “Jnana Sangama”, Belgaum with more than 205 students.