PEC Chandigarh Reviews on Infrastructure, Campus, Placement, Facilities & Faculty

Being a 102 year old, infra is still that 102 years old, very poor and old infrastructure, only siemens lab is well furnished and it's developed to something at next level, even top IITs don't have any that kind of lab, except that everything is trash, from hostels to academic blocks to departments everything requires reconstruction, though PEC has started spending a good chunk of money on infra,it will take around 2 years to build it but I have seen the construction, PEC is building a new ERA.

I am really disappointed with PEC's curriculum, being a Teir-1,I thought it will be having excellent curriculum but later I came to know every top college like IITs,NITs,PEC,DTU are struggling with academics, but having top students from all over India PEC stands out in every Field including startups, Placements, producing Top Talents of India in every area, so academics doesn't effect overall growth of students even it enhances skills because we get enough time to work on coding etc

Placements are outstanding and you will feel 100% secured about your future, Talking about Average Package its 16.7 LPA for overall, CSE average package is 25LPA. ECE is 18LPA, EE is 15LPA, I am a Data Science student but Data science currently don't have any placement stats because DS was started this year so our first batch will have placements in 2025, talking about non-circuital placements is not that good but compared to private college CSE placements our lower branch placements are better.

Though it's not as cheap as NITs but costs much less than private colleges, fee is same like IITs but facilities provided have a huge difference, as I talked about infra earlier it's not value for money from that aspect, but as placements are very high so it's get compensated there, Fee is around 3LPA , but ROI is very high so be tension free about fee, Study loans are easily once you will fill out PEC in the form.

PEC Campus is very small and old so in starting you will very bored but will you connect with friends and seniors it will become great with and then it get's mixed with Chandigarh vibes which makes it heaven for a student , Teachers and support staff are mostly unsupportive, some of them are really excellent but you butter them a little bit, This Campus or I will say this best planned city Chandigarh can handle any kind of emergency very easily

Always Recommended to join PEC and don't leave it for NITs, You will get Exposure of IITs here

Infra is kind of okayish, or I will say on the negative side, because NAB, Seimens lab, and ECE lab are the only good infrastructure PEC has right now, Department lecture halls are not even air-conditioned, and those also lack the primary teaching required equipment, Sports centers are like 0, Almost no funding is given to Sports by PEC, Living spaces are not worth according to the fee they charge, and food is now improving earlier people used to complain a lot.

Very poor really very poor academics, Teachers don't even know how to teach,I can't use that words here. Still literally, I was shocked by the level of teachers in a TOP Tier college of India. However, My friends in NITs,IITs told the condition is same there too so nothing will happen even if you complain, PEC's or any other college curriculum will never make you job-ready either its IIT,DTU,PEC,NIT or CU, Amity.

This part is really unbelievable, how outstanding placements PEC is having right now, Overall average is 16.7LPA, Where NIT students struggle too much to get an internship, in PEC if you work hard even a little but you will grab an internship,Highest Package was 83LPA on campus and 1.5cr Off campus, Apple,Adobe,Amazon like companies visit PEC campus regularly for placements.

Being a too much expensive college compared to other TOP govt. colleges of India.I believe PEC is surely value for money,While living here for 4 years you will get nothing in terms of infrastructure after paying 3.3L per year, but you will be getting an Alumni Network of 103 years, which includes people in Top MNC's,Top Administrative positions,And after 4 years you will definitely get a high paying job so it's worth it according to me.

Campus life depends on individual how he/she balance it out, you can enjoy whole day to tfullest while learning something or just enjoy or just study whole day so it depends on you from end to end, PEC being in Chandigarh will provide you with everything in which you can enjoy to the level that you can't even imagine if you are a JEE student, Dispancary is open but for only 10AM-5PM, and it really will not help, Doctors are unavailable or are like not ready to work, but PGI shares wall with PEC.

Great place to learn and earn too.

College infra is really very poor, Labs are in the condition that they can't be used for research, Seimens labs was built by Seimens very costly and PEC is unable to manage the service cost of machines and robots.NAB is well built but the Departments are very old and can't provide sufficient facilities for modern-day teaching methods, Food is now improving as the hostel committee is taking surveys every month about food quality.

Academics are also very poor, Curriculum is old and can't meet industry levels but students are very hard working and smart, and due to seniors' exposure students are able to get high-paying skills which give PEC high placements stats, Teachers have excellent knowledge but they are just unable to transfer that to students.

Placements are outstanding and meet IIT levels, Overall Average this year was 16.7LPA,CSE, around 87% students from circuital get's placed, and 70% from noncircuital branches.CSE average was 25LPA,ECE 18LPA,EE 15LPA, college is really supportive in terms of placements.

Too costly for a general candidate, no scholarships for general candidates,Fee will be around 3.5LPA, but at the end you will be having a high paying job,so I believe it is totally worth it, but if infra and hostels are concerned it's surely not worth it.

Campus life is great when it's diffused with Chandigarh and its locality in Chandigarh, It is always fun working on any project in PEC, College is full with greenery and it feels like pollution free area.PEC can handle emergencies, as PGI is just behind the gate of PEC and other 4 hospitals and police stations are nearby.

Overall PEC is a great college to build your career.

Many will say infra is not good and like "dead infra", to some extent it's correct but I believe major things that are required for engineering are available here and everything is maintained properly, some f labs are old but there are many foreign country labs like siemens which is really built to some next level, and ECE, CSE, Data science are also built very well, civil department is very old and not furnished,Hostels are just like "you can live",food is improving nowadays.

I am in Electrical Engineering ,Again most of students don't like academic criteria of PEC but according to me its good, like we don't have much academic pressure if you know how to do smartwork(that you will come after dealing with seniors),Teachers are experienced but some teachers are like having great knowledge but they are unable to express ,PEC's own curriculum doesn't make you job ready but exposure of PEC will definitely make you ready for a high paying job

Placements are very highly intensified and are at par level with IITs, I am attaching an image having all placements statistics this year, so you will understand it better, as that not includes off campus placements so highest package offered off campus was 1.5cr per year to an electrical branch student.

PEC will cost you around 3.3L per year including everything like hostels, mess, academic fee if you are general category student, there are almost negligible scholarships on basis of economic background ,so it's quite expensive for a normal student to afford, but placements are very high so it's surely value for money.

Campus life is very hectic but at same time it's really joyful and you will enjoy it to fullest, You will not find a single day where PEC is not organizing an event, talking about general services like hospitals, gardens, lakes, malls everything is very near to PEC, the credit goes to Well planned city Chandigarh.

Awesome experience

I an writing to express my disappointment about infra of our college. Firstly talking about infra of lecture halls, for first year classes are conducted in NAB which is well furnished, air conditioned, and required thing for teaching in excellent way is available there but 2nd year classes are conducted in branch department which are not up to the mark and even lack basic infra, same is condition of labs and hostels, mess. Mac labs are available but not in working state.

I am studying in electrical engineering here because of my interest and obviously because high placements of CSE,EE,ECE,in PEC, talking about curriculum its not updated at all and quality of teachers is also not that good, I will its same in every college like IITs,NITs etc so I will not complaint about it ,as at the end most students want to take placements in software companies, academics of college doesn't effect overall growth of college.

This part is that makes PEC a legendary college and different from NITs,placements her are something necxt level, you will surely get a high paying placement if you are in circuital branch in pec, and placements in non circuitalare also better than colleges availabe at same or even better rank,On-campus HIghest offered package was 84LPA, which was offered to 5 students.Companies like Microsoft,Apple,Adobe,Amazon regularly visit campus,Average package was around 16.9LPA overall.

Read it carefully before joining PEC, I wanna explain this deeply, As NITs and IITs offer scholarship for students having weak economic background, but in PEC this is different, PEC doesn't offer any economic based scholarship by its own,PEC alumni network is rich and they fund students having low income, but that number students are around 2-3 in every branch,per year cost is around 3L,and Chandigarh being expensive that too adds,but its completely worth it, recovered in 1 year of placements.

PEC's own campus life is not that crazy, but its location is what make one's college life unmatchable, Everything you can imagine is available under 5km radius, like Mohali cricket , clubs etc, other emergency things like hospitals, police stations are highly serviceable, PGI shares wall with PEC ,so no worries about healthcare ,students are highly career focused and enjoy their life to fullest at same time, 4 years will pass like 4hrs in this college

Overall everything is great in this college,PEC should improve hostels and infrastructure of classes and labs.Alumni network is very helpful and seniors are always there for help. Overall you will find yourself lucky for choosing over an NIT

College infra is very bad, this is part where PEC lags the most and you will find its NIRF ranking falling, all the departments are built very old, there is only one new building named NAB where classes of first year are held, NAB has every basic facility for modern day teaching including smartboards, air conditioning and everything, but core labs, department classes are very very old, food is now improving earlier it was very poor

Very poor academics same like other tier 1 govt colleges this may be a positive thing for students like they get too much free time for extra activities, cheating is very common in this college, No one can even pass exams if cheating gets stopped in PEC , so sharpen your cheating skills before coming PEC, reason I will be writing in anonymously ,PEC,s system is just off route.

The best and the only best part in PEC, this is the only reason for what it gets compared with IITs many time, Average for CSE is 25LPA,Overall average of college is 16.7LPA so you can see how much balanced placements are there for every branch, for EE its 15 LPA, ECE 18LPA

TOO much expensive as compared to facilities provided, Lum Sum every year fee is around 3.5L , in which hostels fee is 80k(NITs have 20k only)still mess fee is not included in it , its around 3700 separately, but placements are very high so I think its worth it

Campus life is very good, pec's own campus is very old but its location is making its campus life really great and joyfull, many gardens ,lakes,Malls, Clubs are available nearby, Hospitals and police stations are in radius of 1km so every service is available very rapidly

Great experience till now

It has almost every necessary facilities but those are very old and not up to date. Overall facilities in NAB classrooms are good but in branch departments there are no proper facilities like air conditioning ,smartboards etc. Wifi speed is high but coverage is not good. Talking about hostels, PEC is building new hostels that are like hotels ,but that are too limited and old hostels are like not liveable ,but you have live in them no option, mess food is improving and students can change menu.

I am from electrical branch, quality of teaching is poor, most of the students are dependent on youtube lectures, but this is condition of every top college of India so I will not complain about it. Curriculum is also old, These studies will never make you job ready, for every college in India you have to study from online courses or youtube,so same is the condition of PEC no difference.

Placements of this year are really outstanding, even branches like meta are having median around 8LPA, production with 9LPA average,CSE have 25LPA average,ECE has 18LPA average, EE has 15LPA average, Apple visit this college regularly,mentioning apple because it don't even visit some IITs, so you can imagine the placements level of this college.

Really expensive for a middle class general student, only 2% students get income based scholarships, that too students have fake income certificates, so you will not get any scholarship, fee is around 3.3L per year, so if you are getting a top NIT like Jaipur, Allahabad, I will prefer you to go there.

Campus life depends on person to person, if you have money to spend than PEC's life is great because of it's location, Chandigarh is heaven but you will have to manage your career with chilling life of PEC, otherwise things will get harder and harder for you. Chandigarh being best planned city of India ,PGI(2nd best ranked hospital of India after AIIMS Delhi)touches boundary of PEC,4 Specialty Hospitals in radius of 5km,clubs,malls,police station eveything is near about PEC

Overall I found it better than NITs ,only and only if you can afford it's expenses, otherwise going NITs will give you 5-6% less placements than PEC but those are really affordable.

Punjab Engineering College, also known as PEC, is one of the premier engineering colleges in India located in Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab and Haryana. The college was established in 1921, and since then it has consistently ranked among the top engineering institutions in India. The infrastructure of Punjab Engineering College is quite impressive and provides an excellent

Punjab Engineering College (PEC) is a highly reputed engineering college in India, and the academic programs offered by the institution are highly acclaimed. PEC offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs in various fields of engineering, technology, and applied sciences. The undergraduate programs offered by PEC include Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in eight different disciplines, including Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication engineering

Better than most NITs. Punjab Engineering College (PEC) has a long-standing reputation for providing excellent placements to its students, making it one of the most sought-after engineering colleges in India. PEC has a dedicated placement cell, which works towards facilitating campus placements for students and providing them with opportunities to kick-start their careers.

Since it's a Govt college so definitely it is value for money

Depends if you come here only for studying or come and join clubs and sports and be a part of oc

This is the most negative part of this college, infra level is not upto the mark, for first year classes are held in NAB which has good infra and every resource for a modern-day lecture requirement, but 2nd year onwards classes are conducted in old departments in which many are not air-conditioned,classes,labs are very old,I am giving it 3/5 because PEC have ECE and seimens EE labs(really next level),for mess and hostels, it will take time for adjustment but you will start loving it.

I am in electrical, though academics of this college are really poor, this scenario is with most of the IITs and NITs and PEC is at the same level as them, the thing is no one here cares much about academics, 8CG is a bar for placements and most of the students study 1 week before to cross it, at the end placements matter, students spend more time on learning required skills rather than old curriculum academics for a better career, and I believe this is the best pf tier-1 colleges.

You can say PEC is a placements machine, Overall Average package this year is 16.9 LPA, For CSE 25LPA, For ECE 18.3LPA,For EE 15.2LPA, you can calculate for others too by overall package, Highest on campus was 84LPA given to 6 students, Off-campus highest was 1.5CPA, Elite Companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc visit campus almost every year, so you can get an assured placement once you enter a circuital branch in PEC(you have to work hard, students are very competitive in nature).

See compared to NITs this is a very expensive college, as for general students this college doesn't have income-based scholarships(PEC mentions 2% of students on the website but that is just negligible, students make fake certificates and really needy students never get any benefit, reason I will write it anonymously),Cost will be around 3.5L/year including everything, its expensive but you will cover whole 4-year feel in 1 year of placements that PEC provide so it is completely worth as of now.

If you can manage PEC's Chandigarh College life, then it is heaven and if you can't that will be hell for you.PEC's own campus literally has nothing inside it, but here comes its location, it is in the main centre of Chandigarh, and everything is available in a radius of 10km, including hospitals, clubs, pubs, stadium, cinemas, malls, libraries, gardens, lakes, hills everything, you will get a peak to enjoy of your life in PEC for sure(again only if you balance it with career building).

Overall it's a great college, If you find the right friends, it will give you everything, it all depends on you and how you utilize that.

This is a hundred year old college with many buildings that have not been updated since decades. Due to which this college lacks in infrastructure. Also being a GFTI ,this college receives very little funding due to which very little developments occour in this college. but on a positive side , some new buildings like NAB and SIEMENS LAB have been developed

Faculty of this college are highly experienced with degrees from esteemed organisations like IITS .There are many good professors with some exception which is always there in all engineering colleges. Curriculum is updated and is at par with IITS

Placements of PEC is the only factor which makes you comfortable to choose it. The placements of the coolege are outstanding with average package of CSE at 25 lakhs which makes it a competitor with IITS in placements. IF you are placement oriented, this college is for you. More than 90 percent of students are placed that were eligible for placements

This college will cost you about 12 lakhs for the full degree along with hostel fees and is neither very high and nor very low. But the placements you get here are very awesome due to which it is worth your money

Pec has a large campus with various sports facilities ,grounds, Gymnaseum, Auditorium . There are various clubs and societies that one can join according to their interest and explore new fields .PEC provides a scope for a high overall development.

This college has a pretty decent college life and you will have a good placement after your 4 years. Also living in Chandigarh is add on which makes your college life great. But its only advised to come here if you wish for placements but in other aspects ,you may not find it so interesting.