PEC Chandigarh is a good institute for engineering providing several opportunities to students during the course of study. Some tips that may help students joining PEC are stated below in points.

• There are several orientation programs held which are not so important for students. Only the orientation organized on the first day of your college and the exhibitions of different technical societies is essential.
• Some students have a tendency to blame the institute for everything. It is advised to not listen to such people as they are utterly demotivating. PEC in itself is a good institute, with some problems in internal administration, but provides several excellent opportunities to students. 
• You should go for the field you are passionate about to move forward and excel in your career. Students least interested in engineering should opt for something else. Here being in an engineering college, learning coding will make a career in the industry as IT.
• Do not get distracted by any bad habits.
• Attendance should be maintained in college. It should not be a reason for the detention.
• Enjoying college life is utterly important. Making friends and memories with them is what students carry forward for the rest of their lives.

These are some of the tips for students joining PEC Chandigarh, which may help them make the best use of their time and resources in the institute, for the betterment of their career.

Yes, there are several alumni of Punjab Engineering College who are creating great impact with their business ideas in the market. Some of them are already established with their business, while the others are in the state of establishment. The points below are a list of some of the entrepreneurs.

• Pankaj Guglani- He is currently establishing a company named Red Quanta.
• Vinay Johar- RChillies is the name of the brand he has set up. This is also an upcoming business.
• Karan Checker- Currently running an IT services company in Chandigarh.
• Kunal Nandwani- A Computer Science graduate from PEC Chandigarh. He has established uTrade Solutions, a financial trading tech. company. It deals with algorithms, analytics, and multi-asset trading platforms.
• Sahil Dewan- Founder of FuturEd. The company deals with alumni networks of colleges and schools. Alumni App is a product developed by FuturEd. This business idea was selected by Draper University, Silicon Valley.
• Arpit Jhamb, Ashish Mishra, and Gaurav Arora- They run a joint venture of www.throwmeamovie.com, an online movie sorting directory.
• Sangeet Saraogi- Let’s Alfred, a chat-based personal assistant.
• Apaksh Gupta- Restaurant business.
• Simarjeet Singh and Saurabh- They run a chain of shops known as Buddies Bakery in Chandigarh, having three branches.

These are just a few among hundreds of entrepreneurs who are successfully running their business ventures across the country and worldwide.

PEC Chandigarh ranks 68th among the top engineering colleges as per NIRF ranking 2020. It maintains a decent placement record of 80% and has been at the forefront of churning out software engineers with a high calibre. 

Chandigarh University ranks 84th among the top engineering colleges as per NIRF 2020 ranking. It provided 100% placements in 2019 by placing students in their dream companies. 

Tabulated below is a brief overview of the both institutions:

Admission Process

PEC

• The minimum marks required for BTech is 75% marks in 10+2.
• The students applying for UG and PG programs must submit JEE Main and GATE exam scores, respectively. 

Chandigarh University

• A minimum of 50% marks is required in 10+2 with a valid score in CUCET.
• JEE Mains qualified candidates will get themselves spared from the entrance examination. 

Placements

Chandigarh University

• The university recorded 100% placement rate
• Over 122 companies participated in the placement drive of Chandigarh University and recruited 2030 students. 
• The highest package offered to students was 35 LPA while the average package was 7.1 LPA.

PEC

• PEC maintains a healthy placement and many reputed companies like Microsoft, Google visit every year. 
• Approximately, 80% of the students get placed in top-notch MNCs every year. 
• The highest package offered to the students was 49 LPA whereas the average package was 9 LPA.
• More than 300 students were placed with 85 participating companies.

The top companies are Directi, Accenture, ZS Associates, Google, Deloitte, Microsoft, Philips, etc.

Facilities

• Chandigarh University promotes all kinds of sports and encourages students to participate in various types of sports activities. 
• The university has a total of 14 academic blocks and 14 libraries all together with over 120000 books.
• The central library of PEC has a collection of 1,19,830 books, research materials and other things. 
• PEC organizes a fest every year in November. 

PEC is the ideal and obvious choice than Chandigarh University for pursuing CSE. PEC provides highly qualified faculties with excellent placements. It is also a 100 years old college with a strong alumni base and provides top-notch cultures.

To change the branch from Civil to CS, you should have scored a CGPA of 9.8 or 10 in 1st year. It is not a big deal since the students are out of IIT preparations and you can easily do it. But there must be seats in the CSE branch and there are not too many people who are also opting for branch change.

If you lower your CGPA below 9.5 then it is difficult to get your branch upgraded in PEC. If you are doing only study and overcomes all difficulties or just mugs things up then there is more chance of getting the branch change because CSE students generally get 7-8 CGPA. 

You can also try to learn to code like hell while you are still in Civil and then you can surprise everyone by being the best coder ever being in the Civil branch. This will give you an upper hand among the actual CS student during any interview. 

Below are the procedures to get admission in undergraduate courses at PEC Chandigarh. 

1. You will have to score at least 75% in your board exam, it is the basic criteria to appear in JEE Main.
2. Appear and secure a good score in JEE Main. You will get three consecutive attempts for JEE Main. Admission at PEC is purely based on JEE Main score. You can check the recent cutoff for PEC on the official website to get an idea of what to expect.
3. All the qualified candidates have to participate in the counseling process and they are allotted seats as per the rank secured in JEE Main and choices elected by them.
4. If you are applying for admission one year after your 10+2, you will need to produce a gap year certificate during counseling.

So, these are some eligibility criteria for you to keep a note of.

The hostels of PEC University of Technology are decent in quality, with several factors to consider such as quality of food, wifi availability, quality of rooms, etc. 

The points below give a brief overview of the hostels at PEC University of Technology.

• The entire campus of PEC Chandigarh is provided with high-speed wifi connectivity. There are occasional crashes in connectivity, which are repaired by the institute, but with a little longer time.
• The hostels in PEC have two and three shared rooms, as there is an increasing number of students in subsequent years. The Shivalik hostel has both kinds of rooms, but the size of rooms with three-shared accommodation is larger.
• The room facilities in PEC are quite comfortable and so, it is not a problem to stay in shared rooms at the hostel. There is a newly constructed block in Shivalik which would ease the accommodation of students further.
• The girl’s hostel has three and four sharing rooms, and it is somewhat uncomfortable to stay in those rooms.
• The overall quality of rooms is decent, as expected from a property which is 50 years old.
• The quality of food served in the hostels of PEC is not that good. Students can go to the PEC market where several shops sell good quality food. There are quite a number of dhabas in sector 11 too. Students usually manage their living for the first year and then figure out their comfort in it.

This is the overall condition of the hostels in PEC, which is of average quality, but quite good being an old enough property.