Aurora's Scientific Technology Institute Hyderabad

Aurora's Scientific and Technological Institute (ASTI) is a private engineering and management college at Aushapur village in Ghatkesar mandal, Medchal district, on the Warangal highway. It opened in 2003 as Church Institute of Technology under the Church Educational Society, and is affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, with its programmes approved by AICTE. The college puts the campus about 20 km from Uppal and 25 km from Secunderabad railway station.

The MBA is a two-year programme with 180 seats. In the college's 2026-27 AICTE mandatory disclosure, the state-approved MBA tuition is ₹27,000 a year, which works out to about ₹54,000 for the whole course. On the engineering side, the 2025-26 course list shows B.Tech CSE with 300 seats, AI and Machine Learning with 120, and ECE and Mechanical with 60 each, and the same disclosure gives B.Tech tuition as ₹67,800 a year. There is also an M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence with 30 seats. The fee page adds a special fee of ₹5,500 in the first year and ₹2,500 in later years.

Convener-quota MBA seats are allotted on TS ICET rank through the state counselling, as the college is on the TGICET institute list, and the remaining seats are filled by the management. Students allotted through either route then report to the principal with their certificates to complete admission. Separate hostels are available for boys and girls, with the ladies' hostel inside the campus, and four college buses run in from Malakpet, Chadarghat, Balanagar and Mettuguda.