RAMANANDATIRTHA ENGINEERING COLLEGE (REC), Nalgonda RAMANANDATIRTHA ENGINEERING COLLEGE offers 6 courses in Engineering, Management streams. Popular courses are , Diploma, MBA, M.Tech.

Swami Ramananda Tirtha Educational Society was set up in 1992 by a group of highly qualified and well experienced philanthropists with a motto of serving the society through educational institutions. Sri Vemireddy Aravinder Reddy, Businessman by profession is the Chairman of the Society.

Swami Ramananda Tirtha Institute of Science and Technology (SRTIST) was established in the year 1996 with an intention of providing quality technical education to the students of the state in general and Nalgonda district & its surrounding areas in particular. It was the first engineering college in this district and one of the earliest private affiliated colleges of JNTU. The Institute was started with branches viz., Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Engineering with an annual intake of 140 students.

The college has spacious well-designed, adequately furnished and ventilated classrooms. All the laboratories of engineering and sciences are well equipped with the required equipments. The college is facilitated with 125KVA, 75 KVA capacity generators to ensure uninterrupted power supply for the conduct of academic activities. The laboratories and workshops are fully equipped with the state-of-art facilities; particularly the computer centre, CAD/CAM center,Library; Digital Library, 24 x 7( 10 Mbps) Internet connectivity and language labs are value added assets to the college.

The college has accomplished a remarkable growth in the past 17 years. The student's admissions has been growing steadily year-by-year as in the case, in the first cradle year, i.e. 1996 the sanctioned intake was 140, which has now increased to
1092( UG + PG + Diploma ). As the intake of students multiplies, so does the infrastructure of the college, which is constantly under expansion to keep pace with the growing needs and trends of technology. SRTIST enjoys the reputation of being one of the best engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh and the first Engineering College in Nalgonda District, nestled in serene atmosphere providing quality education.