Navkis College of Engineering, Hassan is the latest initiative from the House of M S Ramaiah, a pioneer in private education in Karnataka,who established the renowned Ramaiah Group of Institutions ranging from Medical Sciences to Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru to the other Institutions of repute leading to a University.

The inspiration and philosophy of Dr. M.S Ramaiah, has been the guiding light of his son, Sri. M.R Anandaram who is the Chairman of the Trust. NCE Hassan has been established under his leadership as a world-class technical institution that ensures that its graduate engineers are agile and well equipped to be able to adapt to the dynamic professional environment. Navkis College of Engineering is a part of the Navkis Group of Institutions, a trustworthy provider in quality education across Karnataka. The Navkis group of Institutions has under its fold today 8 different Campuses of excellence ranging from Pre-schooling to Schools to PU Colleges and professional colleges like NCE.

The college is running under the guidance of Technical Director Dr. M G Venkateshmurthy, who is in the field of technical education for nearly five decades and Principal Dr H S Mohana, who is in the field of technical education for nearly 30 years.

The college was established in the year 2009 under the Yagachi Education and Research Trust (YERT), Hassan. The college is housed in a sprawling campus of 10 acres. The college is about 8 km from the KSRTC bus stand towards Sakaleshpura and is located in NH-75, BM Road, at Thimmanahalli Industrial area, near Kandali village,Hassan.

The college is affiliated to VTU, Belagavi, Recognized by AICTE, New Delhi and Approved by the Government of Karnataka.

The college has well qualified highly dedicated faculty members, properly equipped and well maintained laboratories and workshops in accordance with both AICTE as well as VTU requirements. The college also has a spacious library having nearly twenty thousand books, Digital Library having membership with INDEST-AICTE to access IEEE, ASCE, Springer Mechanical e-Journal, ProQuest Journals. College is also having membership with DELNET and British Library.Also it is a member of the VTU library consortium.