The two constituent Colleges Located at Hyderabad and Jagithyala comes directly under the governance of the University. These are recognized to impart the technical education on behalf of the University. These Colleges conduct Bachelor, Master and Diploma programs. Apart from these, faculties are undergoing productive research work in various areas of technology.

Each College offers a close-knit and supportive community. Within each College the members of staff have a wide variety of research interests and expertise.

University has established a number of Centers under the umbrella of the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) (formerly Institute of Post Graduate Studies & Research (IST)).

With many professional colleges coming up in private sector, need has arisen to improve the quality of teaching. It necessitates providing continuous refresher courses to the teachers for updating and acquiring additional skills in new areas. With this goal, University has established a UGC Academic Staff College for technical teachers, which has been sanctioned by University Grants Commission.

University is offering number of Post Graduate Programs in Computer Sciences and Information Technology. Quite many Short Term Courses are offered by the University in software areas. With fast growing needs in the area of IT, University has established School of Information Technology in the year 2000-2001 to bring all Computers and IT related activities under the control of School of IT.

To give more importance to the Management studies and to expand related activities a separate “School of Management Studies” has been established during 2002-2003. In May 2003 it has been conferred functional autonomy and moved out to the University campus at Kukatpally and is housed in a modern spacious block in Academic Staff College Building. MBA program and some special programs in Management studies are being conducted here.

A number of students have been sponsored by Armed Forces, Private Companies and State Board of Technical Education, A.P.

The School also offers one year PG Diploma in Supply Chain Management & Retailing in collaboration with State Board of Technical Education & Training & Government of Andhra Pradesh.

The School has collaborated with Central Michigan University, USA for offering a Joint MBA program.

Faculties of JNTU are actively involved in research and development activity in addition to regular academic work. International and National Conferences, Seminars and Workshops are organized by the Staff. A good number of summer schools and refresher programs have been organized for the benefit of Teachers of various Colleges and Engineers from Industry.

Research programs leading to M.S., M.Phil, and Ph.D. are offered in almost all disciplines available in the university.

To improve the Quality of Technical Education, it has participated actively in a number of National Programs like Teacher Quality Improvement Program, University-industry-interaction, consultancy, Continuing Education Programs and Expansion of Infrastructure facilities for Emerging Technologies. Distance Education programs in B.Tech in Civil, Electrical & Electronics, Mechanical and Electronics & Communication Engineering were started by the University, in the correspondence-cum- contact mode, in 1983 and Computer Science and Engineering was added in 1995.