Every year young and unmarried male candidates are selected by the Indian Navy to intake admissions into the B. Tech courses offered by the Naval College of Engineering (NCE), Lonavala is one of the oldest and prestigious engineering colleges in India. It was established in 1957 to meet the requirement of training technical naval officers. The Naval College of Engineering was “commissioned” on 12 Jul 1957 and was formally inaugurated on 02 Jan 1960 by late Shri VK Krishna Menon, the then Defence minister.

Naval College of Engineering (NCE) is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), and the college is affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi also. The college is a defense academy completely owned and run by the central government of India.

Placement

A candidate after passing out gets placed in an INS ship only and is further trained and if a student leaves the college he/she gets placed in the best in the business companies.