Lingaraj Appa Engineering College is a private engineering and management institute located near Gornalli in Bidar district, Karnataka. The college was established in the early 2010s (around 2011) and is run as a regional technical institution serving students from Bidar and neighbouring areas.The college is affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, and is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi. These approvals cover its undergraduate (B.E./B.Tech) and postgraduate (M. Tech, MBA) programmes.