KL University, Guntur

For 2026-27 at the Vaddeswaram campus, B.Tech tuition per semester is Rs 1,47,500 for CSE, Rs 1,40,000 for AI and Data Science, Rs 1,37,500 for CS and IT, Rs 1,27,500 for ECE, IoT and Biotechnology, Rs 1,17,500 for Mechanical and EEE and Rs 1,15,000 for Civil, with two semesters a year. CSE (AI and ML, Full Stack) costs Rs 1,05,000 and ECE (VLSI Chip Manufacturing) Rs 90,000 a term, and the fee table for those two is headed 3 terms per year. A one-time admission fee of Rs 16,000 is paid at admission, and hostel, mess and exam charges are separate. KLEEE, JEE Main, Class 12 and EAMCET merit scholarships cut tuition by 10% to 50%, and by 100% for the top JEE Main percentiles.

KL's 2026-27 fee table for the Vaddeswaram campus gives these fees a semester, with two semesters a year: MBA Rs 1,62,500, MBA FinTech Rs 2,75,000, MCA Rs 1,25,000, M.Tech Rs 62,500 to Rs 80,000, M.Sc Chemistry Rs 45,000, M.Pharm Rs 1,10,000, BBA Rs 1,07,500 to Rs 1,17,500, BCA Rs 1,07,500, B.Com (Hons) Rs 80,000 plus a Rs 17,500 certification fee, BA Economics Rs 85,000, B.Sc Agriculture Rs 1,17,500, B.Sc Food Technology Rs 85,000, B.Sc Animation and Gaming Rs 80,000, B.Pharm Rs 1,17,500, Pharm.D Rs 1,55,000 and BBA-LLB Rs 87,500. B.Arch was Rs 1,35,000 a semester on its programme page, which gives 2025-26 fees. A one-time admission fee of Rs 16,000 applies to every programme.

KL University's admissions page gives 3 to 7 December 2026 as the Phase 1 dates of KLEEE 2027, and of KLSAT, KLMAT, KLECET and KLHAT 2027; applications close on 2 December 2026 and admit cards are issued from 2 to 6 December 2026. Phases 2 and 3 had not been announced on 14 October 2026. In the 2026 cycle the three phases were held on 14-20 November 2025, 3-5 January 2026 and 28-31 March 2026, and the application fee is Rs 1,000.

B.Tech admission is on KLEEE, JEE Main, JEE Advanced, AP or Telangana EAMCET or Uni-GAUGE scores, and B.Arch needs both KLEEE and NATA. MBA and MCA take KLMAT, CAT, MAT, XAT or ICET scores, the M.Tech pages name GATE and AP/TS PGECET, and BBA-LLB also considers CLAT or LAWCET ranks. BBA, B.Com, BCA and BA use KL's KLHAT test and an interview, while B.Sc, B.Pharm and Pharm.D use KLSAT or KLEEE, and the pharmacy pages also name EAMCET and NEET.

KL's 2026-27 hostel fee at Vaddeswaram runs from Rs 1,08,600 a year (Nilagiri Hostel, non-AC, 3-bed, common toilet) to Rs 1,91,600 (Lotus Hostel, AC executive suite, 2-bed). Each figure is one payment at academic-year registration covering the mess fee of Rs 92,000, 5% GST (Rs 4,600) and the room rent; paying in two or three instalments costs a little more. An electricity deposit of Rs 4,000 to Rs 15,000 and a one-time registration fee of Rs 5,000 for new students are extra.

In the data KLEF filed for NIRF 2026, 1,849 of the 2,581 students who finished four-year UG programmes in 2024-25 were placed, at a median salary of Rs 8,68,000 a year, and 698 went on to higher studies. In two-year PG programmes 297 of 384 were placed at a median of Rs 8,31,000, and in the MBA 233 of 249 at a median of Rs 8,00,000. These are university-wide figures; the NIRF data does not split them by campus or branch.

KL University (Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation) is a private deemed-to-be university, not a government one. The Government of India declared it a deemed university under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, by a notification dated 20 February 2009, and the UGC graded it a Category-1 deemed university in December 2018. Its accreditations page lists AICTE approval, Pharmacy Council of India approval for pharmacy, Council of Architecture approval for architecture and Bar Council approval for law.

In NIRF 2025, KL (Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation) ranked 26th among universities, 35th in engineering, 46th overall and 70th in management. NAAC graded KLEF 'A' in its first cycle (2013) and 'A++' in its second cycle (2 November 2018). That grade was valid for five years, to 1 November 2023; KLEF is not in NAAC's list of institutions with valid accreditation (as on 14 August 2025), and no later cycle had been published by 14 October 2026.

For 2026-27, B.Tech students get 50%, 25%, 15% or 10% off tuition, or Rs 5,000 a semester, on KLEEE rank (ranks 1-100 get 50% in CSE), Class 12 marks or AP/TS EAMCET rank, and 100% to 10% on JEE Main percentile (97 and above gets 100% in CSE, AI and DS, CSE AI and ML and Biotechnology). MBA and MCA students get 10% to 25% on degree marks or CAT, MAT, XAT, ICET or KLMAT scores, M.Tech students 25% to 75% on GATE or PGECET rank, and other UG students 10% to 25% (30% in B.Sc Agriculture) on board marks or KLHAT, KLSAT or law entrance ranks. SC, ST and differently abled students get Rs 10,000 a year and OBC students Rs 5,000; only one scholarship applies, and keeping it needs a minimum CGPA and no backlogs.

KL University's main campus, Green Fields, is at Vaddeswaram in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, near Vijayawada, and covers about 100 acres. KLEF also has off-campus centres in Hyderabad at Aziz Nagar and Bowrampet and the KLH Global Business School, which have their own fee tables; the programmes and fees on this page are for the Vaddeswaram campus.

KL University admits B.Tech students on KLEEE, JEE Main, JEE Advanced, AP or Telangana EAMCET or Uni-GAUGE scores, followed by KL counselling; other programmes use KL's own tests (KLSAT, KLHAT, KLMAT) or national scores, with a personal interview. Phase 1 of KLEEE 2027 is on 3 to 7 December 2026, and applications for it close on 2 December 2026.

KL University, Guntur offers 55 programmes in Engineering, Management, Science, Commerce, Arts & Humanities, Law, Agriculture, Pharmacy, Computer Applications and Architecture, including Bachelor of Technology, Master of Technology, Bachelor of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration, Bachelor of Science and Master of Science.

13,860 students were enrolled across its programmes in 2023–24, 50.9% of them women (NIRF 2025 data).

KL University, Guntur is also known as KLEF, KLU, KL Deemed to be University, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation and KL University Vijayawada.