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What is better, a B.E. in Electronics in PEC University of Technology, or a B.E. in Civil Engineering at NIT Surathkal?
Here are some details about B.Tech Civil Engineering at NIT Surathkal and B.Tech Electronics at PEC for you to make the final decision:
B.Tech. Civil Engineering at NIT Surathkal
- Faculty: The faculty at NIT Surathkal is above average. There are professors who are very supportive and their teaching methods are excellent, but there are also professors whose teaching methods and approach are not liked by students. Faculty feedback is not taken with much seriousness.
- Lab facilities & Infrastructure: The Labs are good with all the proper facilities. The infrastructure is average. The buildings are very old and there are no ACs. The elevators do not work most of the time.
- Research Facilities: In terms of research facilities, NIT Surathkal is excellent. It has impressive laboratories. Most of the professors support and guide students in all the different aspects related to research. Various scholarship programs are available for research work and students can also work at foreign universities.
- Placements: The placement scenario is above average with 70% + eligible students getting placed in both core and non-core companies.
B.Tech Electronics at PEC
- B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering is offered for a total course fee of 7.07 Lakhs and the course duration is 4 years. The qualifying exam is JEE Main. PEC is ranked 138th in the NIRF India Rankings 2023: Engineering.
- Companies like Arcesium and Amazon offer good packages to a select few. The selection, however, is based on coding skills and has nothing to do with ECE subjects. Core companies like Sandisk, Texas Instruments, and Mediatek hire only around 4-5 students per company from the CS, ECE, and EE courses combined.
- The remaining upper half of the batch gets placed in various profiles like IT, Consulting, Banking, and others. The remaining students are recruited by mass recruiters like TCS and Infosys.
The overall placement statistics for the year 2022 for NIT Surathkal and PEC are as given:
|
Placements (Overall) |
NIT Surathkal |
PEC |
|
Highest CTC |
INR 45 LPA (Microsoft) |
INR 64.50 LPA |
|
AVERAGE CTC |
INR 13.12 LPA |
INR 13.50 LPA |
|
MEDIAN CTC |
INR 10.5 LPA |
INR 10.00 LPA |
|
TOP RECRUITERS |
Microsoft, DE Shaw, Uber, Amazon, Oracle, among others |
Uber, JP Morgan & Co, Microsoft, Expedia Group, Apple, among others |
Both NIT Surathkal and PEC are renowned institutions. You must first choose whether you want to seek admission into Civil Engineering or Electronics and then decide which University / College you should pick.
Can I get pec Chandigarh University in 60 percentile
60 percentile in jee main can be roughly translated into rank between 4.7 Lac to 5.2 Lac. According to last year stats the last rank admitted in Punjab Engineering college chandigarh is 173573 for the course Metalurgical and material.
You can check last year cutoff from here – PEC Cutoffs
Candidates with score 80 – 85 percentile have good chance of getting admission in PEC.
| Course | Rank Needed |
| Computer Science | 17000 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 20000 |
| Data Science | 21000 |
| ECE | 30000 |
| VLSI | 31000 |
| Electrical | 50000 |
| Mechcanical | 55000 |
| Civil | 60000 |
*this data is based on past analysis only. This does not guarantee a seat allocation.
How are the hostels at PEC Chandigarh?
Our hostel has provided us a really small room and that too is shared by 2 students. The hostels are not ever clean, meal quality is really bad, its basically survival here. The hostel fees given for accommodation clearly didn't go to the place it should've.
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