Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (KLEF) was established as KL College of Engineering in 1980-81 and was recognised as a deemed to be university by the UGC in 2009. The UGC has conferred Category 1 status on it. Its main campus covers 100 acres and it has a 27.9-acre off-campus in Hyderabad; its website lists off-campuses at Aziz Nagar and Bachupally.
In its NIRF 2026 data submission KLEF reported 13,487 students on four-year undergraduate programmes, 921 on two-year postgraduate programmes and 1,033 PhD students. It says it has partnerships with 48 international universities and has awarded 954 PhDs. Its leadership page names Er. Koneru Satyanarayana as Chancellor and Dr. G. Pardha Saradhi Varma as Vice Chancellor.