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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?

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Madhav Aneja Posted On : June 15th, 2023
Lived in Chandigarh, India

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.

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Can I get pec Chandigarh University in 60 percentile

Collegedunia Team Posted On : February 13th, 2024

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. 

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How are the hostels at PEC Chandigarh?

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YASHCHOUHAN Posted On : January 4th, 2026

The hostel facilities given by the colleges really decent I believe they can really improve the facilities the meal provided is decent and for 1st year the rooms are shared to students in one room the rooms are not so use they provide to beds and one table and chairs you have to bring your own mattress you get only one when no air conditioning provided in summers you can put water cooler buy or own expense and still you have to pay 200 or 300 for electricity bill not throughout the year but for somebody is when you put your air cooler I would suggest for first year you should out for hostel and enjoy hostel life later you can change and live in flat or PG

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