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.

The change of a particular branch takes place at the beginning of the second semester. In fact, it depends on how hard you have worked for it. There are several students from branches of ECE, Electrical, and Mechanical who have secured themselves an upgrade to CSE.

Thus, your branch does not affect anything and can be upgraded if you have good marks. Now, to acquire an upgrade, especially to a branch-like CSE, you have to be a 10 pointer. It is because you are required to compete with students from various other branches as well.

That means you have to work quite harder to achieve a good performance in your mid-semester examinations, quizzes, and end-semester examinations as well.

PEC Chandigarh is a very good engineering college but somehow it lacks a reputation in the industry and this college is unable to produce any skilled engineers for a long time. 

• Colleges like DAIICT/LNMIIT are less popular colleges than PEC Chandigarh but it has much more recognition and reputation in the industry which attracts many companies to visit the college for campus placements. 
• An electronics engineer is the one who can make use of their command over the low-level computer programming languages and make the computers do whatever they want them to do. 
• There is also a high demand for skilled electronics engineers in the industry but sadly no major electronic engineering companies carry out campus placements at PEC Chandigarh. 
• Most of the degree holders from such colleges remain unemployed or have to look for other opportunities through off-campus interviews.

Hence, it is not preferable to do M.Tech in ECE from PEC Chandigarh as it has a low reputation in this branch and as a result, you might have to struggle to look for decent jobs or even remain unemployed.

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. 

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.