Once you come to the hostel, you must surround yourself with quality people and concentrate more on learning. You will get a huge amount of opportunities in CGC. You must not forget to attend all the TPP classes. This becomes the main reason why some students are not able to get placements. If you do not attend the classes, you will get debarred from TPP and this will also lower your chances to sit into the placements.

Here are some information about the hostel: 

If you are moving into the Hostel for the first time, then it is not going to be easy. You will have to take care of some things and here is a list of them -

1. Money Cards: You need to keep your Debit Cards/ Credit Cards handy and safe. Make use of net banking if possible. You will probably order a lot of things online once you move to the hostel.
2. Documents/Certificates: You need to keep all of your necessary certificates/ documents in PDF format.
3. 1 Laptop and 1 Pen-drive.
4. 2 bed-sheets.
5. Personal Grooming Products.
6. Lock for your cupboard.
7. 1 plate, 1 Bowl & 1 Glass.
8. Sports Item (Football, Badminton Racket, Cricket Bat etc.).
9. Books: if you are into reading then you must bring good self help books.

There are still some small things that you will need to purchase so make sure you have at least 3,000-4,000 in your ATM card. If you are lucky and are able to get good roommates then you don’t have to worry about anything.

Yes, you can withdraw your fees after one month of joining but there are a few terms and conditions. A friend of mine did withdraw his fees and noticed that the terms are slightly different as per offline and online transactions-

In case of Offline Fee Payment -

• You will be provided with a full fee after the authorities have deducted Rs. 1000 as processing fee. It will be implied only if you withdraw your fee after admissions. 
• You will not get a refund if you wish to withdraw after the classes have begun. 
• You will receive a refund of your hostel fees after a month from the month of withdrawal. If you leave the hostel without completing the year then security deposit will not be refunded.
• A friend of mine made the request to withdraw his fee and his refund was made on his prescribed application form by the admission/registrar office. Along with the fee refund application, you will also be required to submit the ID card, Original Fee Receipt & Due Clearance Certificate.
• Refunds will then be processed by the Finance Office of the University after they receive approval from the Director and will be returned to you by cross cheque in your name after 90 days from the date of receipt.
• All disputes about this issue shall fall within the jurisdiction of Mohali, Punjab for CGC, Landran. You can consider the registrar of the concerning institute to be the legal person for all such matters.

If any technical issue is found in online fee payment -

The office can be contacted if following situations occur:

• during the online payment through credit/debit card, your payment gets debited and the internet goes down due to some external server malfunction or any other similar happening. 
• your system is not able to generate the required acknowledgement given to weak internet connection.
• the payment gets deducted from your account and does not reach the institute’s account or if your payment gets debited twice due to internet issues.

Here is an overview of the amount that can be refunded if your conditions apply: 

The college states that they shall not be responsible in any case until the course fee paid by a student is credited to the Bank Account of the College. If credited, the refund policy will be applied as per the College’s guidelines.

Both Chitkara and CGC Landran are at the same level. As far as placements are concerned, both of them offer excellent placements with well-developed placement cells.

UPES is definitely more concentrated on petroleum and chemical engineering. It also has some unique courses and a really good reputation and you will get to learn a lot. Fees might be a little expensive though.

My advice to you would be to not choose electronics and communication engineering at either of them because placements are not that great and you don’t want to end up with CSE students and learn coding in the last few months of your college.

The table below should help you out with placement statistics and fees regarding the same:

While the fees for UPES are quite high, you can expect to get a similar return on your investment. At the same time, you will not be pestered for admissions like in my brother’s case with regards to CGC Landran and CU. The faculty at UPES is very good too.