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Started in 1984, Puducherry Engineering College Puducherry is an esteemed college that is funded entirely by the government of Puducherry. It started as a part of the seventh five-year plan but has continued to be promoted by the government. It is essentially a public college and is approved by the AICTE (All India Council of Technical Education).
Puducherry Engineering College, Puducherry is well-equipped with a lot of facilities and is proud of being a government college that is accredited by NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council) and NBA (National Board of Accreditation) alike. The Puducherry Engineering College Puducherry offers many courses in engineering, architecture, IT and sciences. The courses offered by the college include B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA, MBA and Ph.D.
The graduate courses are offered after having completed a higher-secondary education or something with similar qualifications and passed the JEE exam. Additionally, the postgraduate courses are offered after having completed graduation and appearing for GATE.
Puducherry Engineering College Puducherry has a good record in terms of placement facilities. The alumni of the institute have availed the maximum benefits of PEC Puducherry placements to give their careers a head start. Students at PEC Puducherry have access to first-rate facilities, including an enticing library, hostels, auditorium and a plethora of sporting opportunities.
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Puducherry Technological University, Puducherry has secured 201-300 rank under the engineering category.
The college is fairly located in a busy spot in the city. It is about 10.4 km away from its nearest bus stand and Puducherry airport 10.8 km away. The nearest railway station is 11 km away. If you look for it, it would be fairly easy to find with its location situated on the East Coast Road in the Pillaichavadi district of Puducherry. For people who come from farther distances, the college provides facilities to ease their commute to the campus.
Parameter | Description |
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Established | 1984 |
Exam | JEE Main |
Courses | 5 Degrees and 40 Courses |
Institute Type | State University |
Approvals | AICTE |
Gender | Co-ed |
Student Count | 2381 |
Faculty Count | 138 |
Campus Size | 208 acres |
Gender Percentage | Male 72% and Female 28% |
Percentage Of Students from Outside the States | 33% |
Domain | Year | Score | Rank Band | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|
Engineering | 2024 | -NA- | 201-300 | -NA- |
Engineering | 2023 | -NA- | 151-200 | -NA- |
Engineering | 2022 | 36.77 | -NA- | 150 |
Engineering | 2021 | 35.66 | -NA- | 144 |
Engineering | 2020 | 35.49 | -NA- | 122 |
Engineering | 2019 | 38.56 | -NA- | 76 |
Engineering | 2019 | 38.56 | -NA- | 76 |
Engineering | 2018 | 43.7 | -NA- | 53 |
Particulars | Statistics |
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First year total students intake | 243 |
Total students admitted | 126 |
Total Graduated Students | 126 |
Total Placed Students | 23 |
Placement Percentage | 23.23 |
Total student gone for higher studies | 27 |
Median Salary | 5.00 L |
Established in 1984, Pondicherry Engineering College is one of the leading engineering colleges in Puducherry with an NIRF rank of 122. The various programs offered by this college are B Tech, M Tech, MCA, MSc, and MBA. The college is run by the Union Territory of Puducherry. Various Pondicherry Engineering College scholarships are offered by the institute to encourage economically backwards yet bright students to pursue their higher studies.
A wide variety of PEC Puducherry scholarships are available to both the UG and PG students. There are many state level and central government funded scholarships for the students. Apart from these PEC scholarships, free laptops are given to the UG and PG students from economically backward classes of society.
- Central scholarships: These scholarships amount is directly sanctioned by the central government (MHRD).
- State scholarships: These scholarships are provided by the state government, Puducherry government in this case.
Scholarship | Eligibility | Benefits |
Central Sector Scheme of Scholarship | Family income less than Rs 4,50,000 and above 80 percentile in boards examination | Rs 1,000 per month for UG students Rs 2,000 per month for PG students |
Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship | SC/ST students pursuing PG programs | Monthly allowance of Rs 28,000 |
Studying AICTE approved PG program | Rs 12,400 per month | |
PG scholarship for professional courses for SC/ST students | Only for PG students | Rs 7,800 per month for ME or M Tech students Rs 4,500 per month for other courses |
The Puducherry government has taken many initiatives to fund the education of their state students based on certain eligibility criteria. There are state scholarship schemes for economically and socially backwards students as well as meritorious students making into medical and engineering colleges. The Pondicherry Engineering College scholarship schemes are listed below.
Scholarship | Eligibility | Benefits |
Post Matric Scholarship for SC students | Family income less than Rs 2,50,000 | Non-refundable fees reimbursed along with other allowance |
Dr Ambedkar Grant for SC students studying in professional colleges | Studying a professional course in Puducherry | College fees, mess fees, room rent, and monthly allowance of Rs 1,000 |
Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Financial Assistance Scheme | Medical, engineering, and nursing students with no income bar (without SC/ST) | Rs 2,25,000 for MBBS students per year Rs 25,000 for Engineering students per year Rs 8,000 for nursing students per year |
Puducherry State Post Matric Scholarship | Students with income less than Rs 75,000 per annum | Varies for UG and PG students depending on day scholar or hosteller |
Merit-Cum-Means based scholarship | Students pursuing technical and professional courses | Course fees and maintenance allowance for 10 months |
The college campus is so spacious with various facilities to the students . Like the college provides well maintained classrooms , playground , canteen facility , hostels and also quality of food is so good .
It is like home away from home. You have wifis ,sports ground . Since it has been inducted in jossa in the previous year so there are many development projects coming up. But it was started in the year 1984.It should have been an IIT by now but...
Hi Shiva.
With a category of ST and a CRL Rank of 385,000 in JEE Main, you have high chances of getting a seat at Mechanical branch of PEC (Pondicherry Engineering College). You may also get Mechatronics branch there. Here are other colleges that you may seek admission into:
I used this College predictor , https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer
For cutoffs of various colleges, refer this:
https://engineering.careers360.com/download/ebooks/jee-main-cut-off-for-iits-nits
OR
For expert guidance from Careers360 , refer here, https://www.careers360.com/btech-companion/order-summary?icn=companion_order_summary&ici=companion_btech_dashboard
[Note: These are predictions from previous years' data. This year's cutoffs have not been released yet.]
[Cutoffs and ranks depend on various factors like:
Dear aspirant !
Hope you are doing great !
The college has a good infrastructure . Placements: Almost 90% of the students from our course got placed. The highest salary offered is 15 lacs per @nnum and the lowest salary offered is Rs..rs 4 lakh per annum .
The college is ranked 49th. It belongs to tier-2 colleges. Not as good as the IIT's and NIT's but a decent state level government institution.
hope it helps you!
thanking you!
Hello Aspirant,
As we go through the latest cut-offs of JEE-Main 2021 of JOSAA 6th round then it shows that the closing ST rank for Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry in 2021 was around 5.4k for Mechanical branch so with the mentioned ST rank you have very less or almost no chances to get Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry.
You can check out the latest cut-offs from the link given below :-
https://josaa.admissions.nic.in/Counseling/seatallotmentresult/currentorcr.aspx
Note that the above prediction is made on the basis of latest cut-offs available on official website of JOSAA or CSAB and the cut-offs are bound to change every year depending upon various factors such as the number of candidates appearing in an examination, the number of candidates qualifying an examination, difficulty level of the paper, and so on.
To have a list of all those colleges which you can get based upon your JEE-Main score or rank you can use JEE-Main College Predictor:-
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer
As the cut-offs are released along with the JEE-Main 2022 result so now you can check whether you have qualified for JEE-Advance 2022 or not, JEE-Main 2022 qualifying cut-offs are enlisted below :-
==>> Common Rank List (CRL) - 88.4121383 percentile
==>> GEN-EWS - 63.1114141 Percentile
==>> Other Backward Classes (OBC-NCL) - 67.0090297 Percentile
==>> Scheduled Caste (SC) - 43.0820954 Percentile
==>> Scheduled Tribe (ST) - 26.7771328 Percentile
==>> PwD - 0.0031029 Percentile
You can check out previous year's cut-off trends from the link given below :-
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff
I hope this information helps you.
Good Luck!!
The highest package in PEC was of Rs. 25 lakh per annum till now.
PEC has incredible infrastructure. It is even better than the NIT in Pondicherry.
Yes, Puducherry Engineering College provides many scholarships available for students of the minority categories. This is to facilitate their education.
JEE and JoSAA counselling is mandatory to get admitted in PEC for graduate courses.
PEC has a great placement record and companies like Accenture and Cognizant have also hired students from the campus.
Puducherry Engineering College also provides MBA, M.Phil and some doctorate courses other than M. Tech. M.Tech too is available in many field options.
For the general category, the age limit is 21, for SC there is a three-year relaxation at Puducherry Engineering College.
Infrastructure-wise, yes Puducherry Engineering College, Puducherry is more well-established than the NIT.
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