Deccan College of Engineering & Technology

The Deccan College of Engineering and Technology (DCET) is a technical institute situated at Darussalam, Nampally in Hyderabad, India. It is one of eight engineering colleges affiliated to Osmania University in Hyderabad. The college was founded in 1984 as a self-financing minority institution by the Darussalam Educational Trust, chaired by Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, a prominent politician and Member of Parliament. Its campus, located in the heart of the city at Nampally, covers a built-up area of 66,070 sq ft with an adjacent 16 acres of open space reserved for future expansion. The campus also houses the Deccan School of Management, the AIMIM party office, the Etemaad Press Office, the Deccan School of Pharmacy, and the Deccan School of Planning and Architecture, which began in 2011 with an annual intake of 80 students. DCET offers four-year Bachelor of Engineering degrees in fields such as Civil, Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics and Communication, Electrical and Electronics, Electronics and Instrumentation, and Mechanical Engineering. It also offers two-year Master of Engineering programs and a three-year Master of Computer Applications degree. As a Muslim minority institution, 75% of engineering seats are reserved for Muslim candidates who qualify through EAMCET, with the remaining 25% filled by the college management.