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Dear aspirant,

I hope you are doing well.

In the 2015-16 session, 5 students of the aerospace department were eligible for placements, out of which 4 were placed. In total, 83 companies visited the campus and 305 offers were made. The placement percentage is 98.85% (263 eligible candidates, 260 placed). 43 job offers proposed an offer of 10 lakhs or above. The average package is around 6-7 lakhs, the lowest package is about 2-3 lakhs and the highest package was 27 lakhs offered by Amazon to students of computer science and IT departments(now we have computer science department only).

Companies like JP Morgan, McKinsey, DRDO, HAL and Sukhra Helitek(Aerospace) visited the campus during last placement session. 18 students of the aerospace department got internship placements ( 15 off-campus). Total 405 students were selected for internships and 29 students went abroad for internships.

You can visit the following link for further details:

https://pec.ac.in/tnp/placement-information

I hope this helps.

Best of Luck!

Hello aspirant, hope you are doing good.

So, below I'll mention some of the key points of comparison between the two colleges and the subjects that you have mentioned, and you can see for yourself, which one suits you better .

Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh has higher rank

BE Mechanical Engineering in Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh has higher cutoff through JEE Main

B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering in National Institute of Technology Hamirpur has lower fees

Ranking ( according to NIRF ranking) :

NIT Hamirpur : ranked 98

PEC(Punjab Engineering College) : ranked 68

Course fees :

NIT Hamirpur :  Rs. 5.84 Lakhs

PEC Punjab  : Rs.   6.19 Lakhs

So, the fees is more or less in the same range in both the colleges, if thats a concern for you.

As far as the infrastructure and faculty is concerned, PEC punjab being a very old college, has definitely a better faculty full of experienced teachers but NIT Hamirpur has got more students intake

Placements (median salary) :

NIT Hamirpur: Rs.6.78 Lakhs

PEC punjab : Rs. 7 Lakhs

For detailed comparison, get it here:

https://www.careers360.com/compare-colleges?college=149-198-course=7955-9808

hope this helps you. Good Luck !!


Hello aspirant

Admission to Punjab Engineering College is through JoSAA Counselling.The students have to attend JEE Main.You haven't specified the branch.For different branches the cutoff varies.For more information regarding the cutoff  you can refer the following link

https://www.careers360.com/university/punjab-engineering-college-chandigarh/cut-off?college_id=198&exam_sub_exam_id=2&gender_id=1&counselling_id=550&category_of_admission_id=2&caste_id=2


Hope this helps you.

PEC Chandigarh has one of the best Mechanical Engineering Departments in North India next to IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee. Having good infrastructure, faculty and research facilities, PEC Chandigarh provides excellent and in depth technical education.

Companies like Tata Motors, Maruti Suzuki, GE, Mahindra, Hero Motocorp, Honda and many other Top Recruiters make their footfalls on campus and you can expect a median package between 5-10 LPA.

For more information about PEC Chandigarh do follow the link below

https://www.analytics.careers360.com/university/punjab-engineering-college-chandigarh

Hello,

Hope you are good.

Coming to your question, I think the choice has to be made based on what your interests are since both the fields(communication and computer engineering and mechanical engineering) are different. Doing a course that you have a passion for will help you in the long run.

Talking about the placement scenario, both the colleges have an active Placement and Training cell.

The placement statistics of  lnmiit (for batch 2020) is given below:

  • Highest Package: 63.27 LPA
  • Median Package: 10.0 LPA
  • Total Number of offers (Internships + Full Time): 517
  • Percentage of registered students placed: 92%

The placement statistics of  Punjab Engineering college (2017 - 2018 batch ) is given below:

  • Highest Package: 34.00 LPA
  • Median Package (LPA):  6.50
  • No. of Students Placed: 366
  • No. of PPOs Received: 66

Hope this help,

Good Luck

Hello Aspirant

Here i'm providing some information about pec university

In the year 2018-2019, almost 97% of the student from our course, i.e., B.Tech CSE got placed. The highest salary package offered was 37 LPA, the lowest salary package offered was around 3.5 LPA and the average salary package offered was 14 LPA. Top recruiting companies of our college were Amazon, Arcesium, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Salesforce and Adobe. Top roles offered to the students were of a software developer. Almost 70-80% of the students got an on-campus internship.

Hope this helps

Thank you & Good Luck!!!

Hello,

Between CU(Chandigarh University) and PEC (Punjab Engineering College), I suggest you to go with PEC, because this college provides 7LPA for BE/B.Tech compared to CU. PEC Chandigarh has good infrastructure. There is a new building block, some new labs, new classrooms with air conditioning and new offices. There is unrestrcited  Wi-Fi all over the school. There is a new and modernized library. A 100-computer  cluster for students has been installed in the computer centre.Members of the faculty are very nice and supportive.They are highly trained and have in-depth knowledge of their subject matter. Nearly all of them have M.Tech or PhD degrees from reputed Indian colleges such as IITs, NITs, PEC etc.The curriculum of the course is well designed and almost identical with that of the IITs.It is planned in the light of the need for industry today.Placements at PEC Chandigarh are excellent.Every year more than 90% of the students are  getting placed. Packages offered for salaries are fine. Last year, Microsoft's average compensation package offered is 42 LPA. For 2017 series, the average compensation package offered is 9.12 LPA.Big recruiters include Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Arcesium, Jp Morgan, Texas, Maruti, Honda and several more. To add on, PECfest is one of North India's biggest festivals and draws a huge crowd. It's a PEC techno-cultural festival, and the 3 days of PECfest are the most enjoyable days of college life. The PECfest 's star night performers are famous celebrities such as Farhan Akhtar, Sukhwinder Singh, Amit Trivedi, Guru Randhawa etc. It is good to PEC over CU.

Check out the below link to compare these two college's on wide number of parameters and decide yourself https://www.careers360.com/compare-colleges?college=326-198-course=0-0


if you still have any further doubts regarding this, feel free to ask your doubts in the comment section below.

Hello,

The admission in Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh is based on merit in JEE Main Paper 1. So you need to appear in JEE Main and qualify in it to get admission in B.Tech. And allocation of seat in through CSAB JoSAA counselling. The eligibility to get admission is that candidate must have passed 10+2 with 45% and for SC/ST/PWD it is 40% marks from a recognized board.

Hello,
In Punjab engineering college, chandigarh, the JEE main exam is acceptable to get admission in b.tech ,the minimum eligibility criteria to get admission in b.tech in Punjab engineering college is that the candidate must have passed 10+2 with atleast 75% aggregates with jee mains exam.


Hope this helps, all the best.

Hello!!!!!!

Hope you are doing great!!!

Your All India rank would be 48664 approximately using the formula 100+94.4*869010/100 where 94.4 is your percentile and 869010 is the number of candidates who appeared for january session.As per the previous year scenario,With this rank you cannot get seat in Punjab Engineering College,Chandigarh in computer science and mehanical branch under home state quota.

For checking probabilities of colleges or NIT's ,you can use our college predictor.the link is provided below:

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?ici=cp-listing_engineering&icn=JEE-Main-College-Predictor Hope it helps!!!!!!

All the best!!!!!!





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