The institute was upgraded to a National Institute of Technology and was declared a deemed university on 26 June 2002 and since then the institute started offering Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree instead of Bachelor of Engineering degree.
However he left to joined the Sri Lanka Navy without graduating and gained a BTech in engineering from the Naval College of Engineering, Lonavla (INS Shivaji) and specialized in electrical engineering at INS Valsura, Jamnagar.