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JEE Main 2025 admit cards to release on January 19, 2025.

Students interested in M.Tech admissions at PEC Puducherry can appear in GATE exam on Feb 1, 2, 15 & 16, 2025.

About PEC Puducherry

Started in 1984, Puducherry Engineering College, Puducherry is an esteemed college that is funded entirely by the government of Puducherry. PEC Puducherry is a state university approved by the AICTE (All India Council of Technical Education).  

Puducherry Engineering College, Puducherry is accredited by NBA (National Board of Accreditation). PEC Puducherry offers many courses in engineering and architecture, management and business administration, sciences, computer application and IT. 

PEC Puducherry offersundergrasute, postgradute and doctoral level courses. The courses offered at PEC Puducherry are B.Tech, MBA, MCA, M.Tech and PhD. Admission to the B.Tech courses at PEC Puducherry is based on JEE Main scores and M.Tech courses is based on GATE

PEC Puducherry has a good record in terms of placement facilities. The alumni of the institute have availed the maximum benefits of the placement cell of PEC Puducherry 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 NIRF Ranking 2024

PEC Puducherry has secured 201-300 rank under the engineering category.

PEC Puducherry Location

The college is fairly located in a busy spot in the city. PEC Puducherry 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, PEC Puducherry provides facilities to ease their commute to the campus.

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PEC Puducherry Highlights

ParameterDescription
Established1984
ExamJEE Main
Courses5 Degrees and 38 Courses
Institute TypeState University
ApprovalsAICTE
GenderCo-ed
Faculty Count138
Campus Size208 acres
Gender PercentageMale 72% and Female 28%
Percentage Of Students from Outside the States 33%

PEC Puducherry Rankings / Accreditations

NIRF Ranking

300 colleges were ranked for evaluation purpose.
DomainYearScoreRank BandRank
Engineering2024-NA-201-300-NA-
Engineering2023-NA-151-200-NA-
Engineering202236.77-NA-150
Engineering202135.66-NA-144
Engineering202035.49-NA-122
Engineering201938.56-NA-76
Engineering201938.56-NA-76
Engineering201843.7-NA-53

PEC Puducherry Placements

Puducherry Engineering College has a good record in terms of placement facilities. As per NIRF 2024, 503 UG students and 23 PG students were placed during the Puducherry Engineering College placement 2023. The median salary offered at PEC Puducherry to UG students was Rs. 6 LPA, while Rs. 5 LPA was offered to PG students.PEC Puducherry placement cell organises workshops on career guidance, personality enhancement, group discussions, interview techniques, and verbal and non-verbal corporate communication skills. Various organisations like Zoho, ...

Domain

Engineering and Architecture

Level

PG

Year

2 Years

Statistics for Academic Year 2023

ParticularsStatistics
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

Placement yearly trends

Placement Percentage
Source Data NIRF 2024

Key takeaways from PEC Puducherry's Placement Statistics

  • The Placement Percentage of PEC Puducherry has decreased by 8.07 %
  • There has been no change in the median salary of PEC Puducherry
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Student Diversification at PEC Puducherry

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Demographic Representation
Data Source: NIRF 2024

Courses offered by PEC Puducherry

Puducherry Technological University, Puducherry courses are offered at the undergradute, postgraduate and doctoral levels. PEC Puducherry courses are B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA, MBA and PhD. PEC Puducherry courses are offered in full time mode. PEC Puducherry courses are offered in streams of engineering and architecture, management and business administration, sciences, computer application and IT. Students who clear the eligibility criteria of PEC Puducherry can apply for admission. PEC Puducherry B.Tech course fee is Rs 6.54 lakhs. Also See: PEC Pu...

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PEC Puducherry Scholarship

Puducherry Technological University, Puducherry scholarships are offered 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 of PEC Puducherry. Apart from these PEC scholarships, free laptops are given to the UG and PG students from economically backward classes of society.

Also See: PEC Puducherry Admissions

Puducherry Technological University, Puducherry Scholarships 2025

The details about the PEC Puducherry are mentioned in the table below. 

PEC Puducherry Central Government Scholarship Schemes

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 programmes

Monthly allowance of Rs 28,000

PG Grant Scheme for GATE/GPAT qualified students

Studying AICTE approved PG programme

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

Also See: PEC Puducherry Placements

PEC Puducherry State level Government Scholarships 

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

Eligible students can apply for PEC Puducherry scholarships. 

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Students Receiving Full Tuition Fee Reimbursement

UG (4 years): 1679/2775
PG (2 years): 4/203

Data Source: NIRF 2024

PEC Puducherry Admission

Puducherry Engineering College, Puducherry admission is offered for bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programmes in various branches. PEC Puducherry admissions are offered to B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA, MBA, MCA and PhD courses.  

PEC Puducherry B.Tech admissions are done through the Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC) and JoSAA. PEC Puducherry offers M.Tech admissions through the GATE marks. Given below are the Puducherry Engineering College admission procedures for both UG and PG students.

Also See: PEC Puducherry Placements

Puducherry Engineering College Registrations 2025

  • Register on the official website of PEC Puducherry.

  • Log in and fill in the details.

  • Upload the required documents.

  • Submit the application form and PEC Puducherry fees.

PEC Puducherry B.Tech Admission 2025

Before applying through CENTAC, the JEE Mains marks are mandatory and one should meet the above criteria for marks followed by the counselling process. Students ca read about the PEC Puducherry B.Tech admission procedure below. 

PEC Puducherry B.Tech Courses, Seat Intake and Eligibility Criteria

Course

Seat Intake 

Eligibility Criteria

B.Tech

780

10+2 pass in the Science stream with a minimum aggregate of marks required to secure admission + JEE Mains 

PEC Puducherry B.Tech Admission Process 2025

  • Applicants should first appear for the JEE Mains examination.

  • After receiving a valid scorecard, one must go through the CENTAC application procedure.

  • Candidates will have to fill up the CENTAC application form online along with uploading the necessary documents.

  • Marks obtained in the qualifying examination will be normalised with the marks obtained in the board examination (Tamil Nadu).

  • A merit list is released after normalising the marks for PEC Puducherry B.Tech admissions.

  • Qualifying candidates will have to go through the counselling procedure. 

  • Document verification will be followed by admission of the candidate in PEC.

Also See: PEC Puducherry Courses

PEC Puducherry PG Admission 2025

A valid GATE score is mandatory for applying to an M.Tech programme at Puducherry Engineering College. Puducherry Engineering College offers M.Tech programmes in 12 different streams.

PEC Puducherry PG Courses, Seat Intake and Eligibility Criteria 

Course

Seat Intake

Eligibility Criteria

M.Tech

247

B.E or B.Tech. in the respective fields with a minimum of 50% marks or equivalent + valid score in GATE examination

MCA

30

BCA with a minimum of 50%

MBA

90

Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 50%

PEC Puducherry M.Tech Admission Process 2025

  • Students have to first appear for the GATE examination and clear the qualifying cutoff score.

  • Applicants have to fill out the CENTAC application form online for PEC Puducherry M.Tech admission.

  • Candidates are selected based on their GATE marks or percentile.

  • Students for PEC Puducherry M.Tech admissions are centrally admitted by PG Admission Committee (PGAC)

  • In case of any vacancy, the seats for M.Tech students are then filled by non-GATE candidates.

  • The selected candidates have to go through document verification before finalising PEC Puducherry M.Tech admission.

PEC Puducherry Admission Process 2025 for MBA and MCA Courses

  • For Puducherry Engineering College MCA and MBA admission, candidates have to clear the eligibility criteria of the college.

  • Admission to the MBA and MCA courses at PEC Puducherry is based on the merit of the qualifying examinations. 

  • Candidates can prefer Puducherry Engineering College during the choice filling.

  • Once the seat has been allotted candidates have to get their documents verified and pay the Puducherry Engineering College admission fees. 

Also See: PEC Puducherry Cutoffs

PEC Puducherry PhD Admission 2025

The procedure for PhD programme selection is mentioned above for Puducherry Engineering College. 

PEC Puducherry PhD Course and Eligibility Criteria 

Course

Eligibility Criteria
Ph.D

M.E. or M.Tech with an aggregate of 55% marks or equivalent from a recognised board

PEC Puducherry PhD Admission Process 2025

  • Applicants should apply for the interested PhD programme through the online website of Puducherry University.

  • The candidates should also fill out the Reservation Category Request (RCR) form.

  • An entrance examination is conducted for PEC Puducherry PhD admissions. Whoever is a recipient of the Junior Research Fellowship doesn’t have to appear for the entrance test.

  • Academic record is checked followed by interview as the final judging criteria for PEC Puducherry PhD admissions.

  • The selected students will have to submit their documents for verification.

Also See: PEC Puducherry Facilities

Documents Required for PEC Puducherry Admissions

  • 10th mark sheet  or equivalent

  • 12th mark sheet or equivalent

  • Valid photo ID

  • Scorecard of JEE Mains

  • Scorecard of GATE

  • Migration certificate

  • No objection certificate

  • SC/ST/PH/EWS certificate

Note:  Any fraudulent promises made by agents of third parties are not the responsibility of the PEC Puducherry, its administration, or its management.

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PEC Puducherry Facilities

PEC makes sure that the students of their college are getting all the needful facilities and resources for both academic and extracurricular activities. From a very attractive library to an arsenal of sport activities, excellent PEC Puducherry facilities are available for the students. The library of PEC Puducherry becomes the centre of attraction for any new students or book lovers on the campus. Also See: PEC Puducherry CutoffsPEC Puducherry hostel and mess facilities are also very hygienic and healthy for the students. There is also a cafete...
Boys Hostel
Girls Hostel
Laboratories
Library
Sports
Medical/Hospital
Cafeteria
Guest Room/Waiting Room
Auditorium
Banks/ATMs

Student Reviews for PEC Puducherry

College Infrastructure: 4.1/5
Academics: 4.3/5
Placements: 4.1/5
Value for Money: 1.1/5
Campus Life: 4.7/5

It is one of the best college

Verified Review

College Infrastructure

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 .

Wish you all the best for your future endeavours.

College Infrastructure

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...

Excellence place to learn and become an engineer

Have a question related to PEC Puducherry ?

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:

  • NIT Rourkela
  • NIT Nagaland
  • IIIT Una
  • IIIT Bhagalpur


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


  • Hope this helps. Thanks .

[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:

  1. Number of Candidates.
  2. Performance in exam.
  3. Difficulty of exam.]

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!!

PEC Puducherry Contact Address

Address:
Pondicherry Engineering College, Pillaichavadi, Puducherry - 605014, India

PEC Puducherry Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

1: Are there scholarships for students in PEC?

Yes, Puducherry Engineering College provides many scholarships available for students of the minority categories. This is to facilitate their education.

2: Can I get into PEC without JoSAA or JEE?

JEE and JoSAA counselling is mandatory to get admitted in PEC for graduate courses. Students must clear the JEE Main cutoff for admission to B.Tech courses at PEC Puducherry.

3: Are there other postgraduate courses available other than M. Tech.?

Puducherry Engineering College also provides MBA and MCA courses along with M.Tech courses. All the PEC Puducherry PG courses are offered for 2 years. 

4: What is the age limit for admission in B. Tech.?

For the general category, the age limit is 21, for SC there is a three-year relaxation at Puducherry Engineering College. The BE/B.Tech courses at PEC Puducherry are offered in 9 different specialisations. 

5: Is PEC Pondicherry better than NIT Pondicherry?

Infrastructure-wise, yes Puducherry Engineering College, Puducherry is more well-established than the NIT. PEC Puducherry has also secured 201-300 rank in Engineering in NIRF 2024. 

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