PCTE Group of Institutes Ludhiana B.Tech Biotechnology: Fees 2026, Course Duration, Dates, Eligibility

In the self funded courses like Biotechnology and food technology, fees boom to the sky. They have a policy of raising fees by 10 percent every year. During my admission in 2016, I payed around 88 thousand for 1st semester and in the upcoming semesters, it was around 66 thousand. In 2019, students who admitted in Biotechnology payed 1,30,000 for the first semester. The fee structure is the worst part of this program in PAU which is increasing at rocketed level every year. To make the things worse, students of Biotechnology are eligible for only 1 scholarship (unlike Agriculture students who have around 7-8 scholarships) i.e Gurdev Khush Foundation scholarship which is only meant for 2 rural students per year and generating only 14000 out of it. But, on the other hand, students belonging the the SC/ST, they have some fees concession and also for those, whose income is below 2 lakh. My batch, being the first BTech batch after Bsc degree, didn't get any placement.

Yes there are scholarships for the toppera of each class but most of the scholarships are for the reserved caste. I do want that there should be more scholarships for the general caste As sometimes they belongs to mIddle class and becomes quite diificult to pay so much fees.

The course syllabus was not at all updated. Even teachers were not sure about what they should be teaching. There was no industrial exposure at all. In third year we were told that we will have an industrial training and it never happened. There were many passionate teachers like Dr. Dharminder Bhatia of plant breeding, Dr. Darshan Singh Brar and there were also teachers who were not at all interested in teaching but were doing it because of the pressure of the higher authorities.