Among the above institutes, PEC Chandigarh is the best choice, considering the factors of availability in streams, fee structure, etc. If you have a specific branch in mind to pursue, then you can definitely choose PEC Chandigarh. But if you are considering a non-IIIT or non-NIT tag then you can opt for DTU. 

The table below gives a brief level of comparison among the institutes.

Key Highlights:

• PEC Chandigarh is a government institute and so has a much lesser fee as compared to Thapar University, which is an autonomous university having a much higher fee structure.
• There are some subjects in PEC Chandigarh which are not available in other institutes like Thapar University or CEG, for example, Aeronautical Engineering.

Therefore, PEC Chandigarh is a better choice considering the factors stated above. Other than these, all the three institutes are incomparable to each other as they offer similar quality placement.

UIET Chandigarh is a public institute approved by AICTE and affiliated to Panjab University. BE in CSE here is offered as a 4 year full time course. CSE and IT has the best placement record.

PEC Chandigarh is ranked 68th for BTech by NIRF 2020. The department of Production and Industrial Engineering of PEC is one of the oldest departments of production engineering in India. They have a student intake of 40 in this department.

Tabulated below is a brief overview of both institutions:

Admission Requirements 

• Students should have 60% in their 10+2 qualifying exam with a valid score in JEE Main.
• GATE qualified candidates of UIET Chandigarh are awarded a scholarship of INR 12400 every month.
• Selection will be based on the entrance exams.

Placements 

UIET Chandigarh

• 56 companies took part in the placement process.
• The highest package offered to the students was 16 LPA whereas the average salary was 5.62 LPA.
• The university recorded an overall placement rate of 90-95%.
• The top recruiters for CSE in UIET Chandigarh are Google, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Deloitte, KPMG, Infosys and Capgemini. The highest number of students, 75, were placed by Infosys. 

PEC Chandigarh

• Out of 263 eligible candidates, a total of 260 were placed.
• 83 companies visited and made 305 offers
• The institute witnessed an overall placement rate of 70%.
• The highest package received by the students was 15 LPA while the average package was 
• The campus is 11 acres in area.6.5 LPA.
• The top recruiting companies for Production Engineering are Trident, JP Morgan, Mu Sigma, Infosys and Loreal.

Facilities 

UIET Chandigarh 

• The institute has 2 academic blocks including labs, offices, library, ATM and lecture halls.
• There are blocks for mechanical labs and workshops.
• It also has 2 separate hostels for boys and girls having a dining mess, individual washrooms and sporting facilities.

PEC University 

• With 146 campus areas, the university provides facilities like Medical Facility and Graduate Research Project Award. 
• The university has 6 hostels, 4 for boys and 2 for girls.
• They have a library consisting of 1,19,830 books.

CSE in UIET Chandigarh is well equipped in terms of hardware and software. Students get to learn computer languages like Java, C++, research and development complex programme language. It is a much in demand course. Due to the rapid growth of the corporate industry there is a huge demand for Computer Engineers all over the world. CSE will be a better choice for your career.

PEC Chandigarh is indeed declining these days and you can consider the following reasons for this thought.

• It is deemed to be University and you should not worry about the syllabus and what is taught in the classes as most of the questions are coming from what is never taught.
• Teachers are very relaxed here, as the institute had separated from PU. Thereby, institutional politics in recent days are increased. 
• No one from the college administration is worried about the syllabus and what will be taught in the classes. Thus, your technical curiosity starts to fade as you proceed forward to the next semesters.
• Most students and the teachers also acquired a 100% placement record for granted.
• It is a technical institute and if you do not have any technical questions and curiosity, it becomes quite hard to endure the study in the core engineering field.

My friend told me that many big corporate companies had overlooked this institute for this decline.

Thus, when an institute is nearby to the NITs, which are growing constantly, it is also important for PEC to improve its student’s quality and the college administration.

For admission to PEC Chandigarh, you need to clear JEE Main and your intermediate exams result will also be taken into consideration. The weightage of JEE and 10+2 is 60% and 40% respectively.

Now, to answer your question, PEC Chandigarh has 4 categories - General, SC, ST, and General PwD. There is no specific OBC category present when cut-offs are considered.

The OBC candidates are allotted seats from the General category. Furthermore, candidates from Defence parents, Kashmiris, etc. will also get some preferences. It is best to contact the college for further accurate information.

PEC Chandigarh ranks 68 among the top pioneer engineering colleges by NIRF 2020. It maintains a standard placement record of 80% by providing jobs in top quality MNCs. 

UIET Chandigarh ranks 54th among the private engineering colleges by NIRF ranking and maintains a placement record of 80%. 

Admission Process

PEC Chandigarh:

• The minimum marks required is 75% marks in 10+2 along with a valid score in JEE Main.
• The seats for metallurgy and material science available are 28. 
• The course fee is INR 3.45 LPA.
• The cutoff required in JEE Main is in the range of 22511-32666.

UIET Chandigarh:

• The admission is based on the valid score of 75% marks in 10+2 with JEE Main. 
• The course fee is INR 3.25 LPA.
• The seats available are 40 for the course of IT.
• The cutoff required in JEE Main is in the range of 24265-35348.

Placements:

The placements in both these colleges are good and many of the companies offer handsome packages to the students every year. CSE receives the highest amount of placement of 100%. 

The top companies are Google, IBM, Directi, Hero Honda, Deloitte, Microsoft, Accenture, Ericsson, etc. 

Facilities:

• The central library of PEC Chandigarh has a collection of 1 lakh volumes of books and research papers. 
• There are six hostels in the campus, four of them are for boys and two for girls. 
• A 120 capacity of air-conditioned hall in UIET Chandigarh for holding presentations and interactive sessions.
• The university library of UIET Chandigarh has an inflibnet network which allows them to connect through the digital facilities. 

Although, UIET provides more placements for all the branches, however, PEC Chandigarh is more preferred than UIET since PEC is one of the oldest institutions in Chandigarh.

VIT is better as it has more than 200 companies coming for CSE students. If the student wants to go into a college with better placements or better exposure. 

The table shows a brief overview of the institution:

• The intake of students in VIT is not great as students above the rank of 2000 in VITEEE join some other colleges. 
• VIT has seats for merit up to only 6000 rank holders in CSE. Concluding only one thing that 80% of those 1300 VIT CSE students get through management quota. So, if the student is worthy then they will find themselves humiliated with children who come there through management quota.
• That's why even if the student gets a lower branch in PEC, take it as PEC is the legacy of notable alumni and will continue to remain. 
• Unless you have a certain inclination towards some branch then do opt for PEC the student will never regret it.

It is not possible to decide your inclination just after completing 12th as there is plenty of knowledge awaiting. When you take a branch that you probably didn’t realize in school also the placements in PEC are nice now it is on par with VIT. Overall, PEC is the potential choice.

Based on what I heard about the institute from my friends, here are some of the reasons that make PEC a good choice.

• PEC has a location advantage. It is in the heart of “City Beautiful” with the nearby railway station and bus stand. Chandigarh is one of the best places to live.
• Chandigarh has a bit of a competitive atmosphere for competitive exams like CAT, JEE, GATE, Civil Services, etc.

The placement statistics of PEC in 2020 are below:

Besides academics, there are a lot of extracurricular activities available at the institute in which you can take part.