Which is better among Thapar, NIT Jalandhar and PEC University, Chandigarh?

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology has been ranked 51st overall and 29th for BTech by NIRF 2020. It has collaborations with Trinity College, Dublin and The University of Waterloo.

NIT Jalandhar offers courses like BTech, MTech, MSc, PhD, and PGDM programs in Management and Engineering. It is ranked 52nd for BTech by NIRF 2020.

PEC University is one the pioneer engineering colleges in Punjab. It is ranked 68th for BTech by NIRF 2020. It is a deemed university approved by AICTE and affiliated to Punjab University.

Admission Details

• Students should at least have 70-75% in their 10+2 qualifying exam.
• Students opting for MBA will have to go through a Group Discussion and Personal Interview Session.
• NIT Jalandhar will conduct a JoSAA counselling session.
• Students pursuing a PhD should have a post graduation degree from a relevant board.
• TIET offers 75 scholarships for deserving students.

Entrance Exams Required - 

• TIET - JEE Main, GATE, CAT, MAT, XAT, NMAT, CMAT and GMAT.
• NIT Jalandhar - JEE Main, CAT and GATE.
• PEC University - JEE Main and GATE. 

Tabulated below gives a brief overview of both institutions:

Placements

TIET - 

• The Recruiting Companies include TCS, Infosys, Microsoft, Capgemini, JP Morgan, DeShaw, etc.

• The highest package offered to students was 43 LPA.

NIT Jalandhar 

• 130 recruiters took part in the placement program.
• The Recruiting Companies include Adobe, Microsoft, Capgemini, Vedanta, ZS Associates, Trident Group, etc.
• Students received the highest salary of 39.12 LPA.

PEC University

• A total of 619 students were eligible for the placement program.
• 143 companies visited the campus and made 449 offers.
• The university witnessed the highest salary of 42 LPA.
• The recruiting companies include Microsoft, ITC, Infosys, TATA, JP Morgan, Mu Sigma, Loreal, Arcesium, Goldman Sachs, etc.

Key Points

NIT Jalandhar

• The faculty members of NIT Jalandhar are over 200, most of them being PhD holders.
• There are 10 hostels for boys and 3 for girls.
• They have all necessary facilities like a post office, shopping centre, banks, seminar hall, gym, computer centre and library.

TIET

• Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology is known to be one of the oldest and finest educational institutes of India.
• They have 307 highly qualified faculty members.
• They provide all the necessary facilities like library, hostels and medical facilities.

PEC University

• The university has a library consisting of 1,19,830 volumes of books including science, technology, engineering, management, social sciences, IT and many more.
• They have a total of 6 hostels 4 being boys hostel and 2 girls hostels.
• PEC University provides Medical Facility, Graduate Research Project Award and has a Computer Center.

Students can choose from any of the above mentioned colleges depending on their preferences of subject or choice of course, affordability, location, appropriate facilities and much more. NIT Jalandhar and PEC University have lower course fees. If affordability is not your primary concern you can also go for TIET. TIET and NIT Jalandhar has better placement records than PEC University but they all offer more or less the same salary packages which can range from 6-18 LPA.

Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET) ranked at 29th position, Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (NIT) ranks at 52nd position and Punjab Engineering College University of Technology (PEC) ranks at 68th position for Top Engineering colleges in India.

Academics & Admissions:

All three institutions offer UG, PG, and Ph.D. programs across various disciplines.

• For BTech/BE courses the admission is based on JEE Main score.

• MTech/ME admission is through GATE.

• For Ph.D. admission, the institutes conduct tests and interviews. Students also need a valid GATE/NET score to be eligible.

Placements:

Thapar University-

In the 2019 batch, 332 companies visited the Thapar University campus placement.

• J.P Morgan, Larsen & Toubro, Infosys, WIPRO, HSBC, Whirlpool, Deloitte, Edelweiss, IBM, Walmart Lab are profound companies visiting the Thapar campus.

• The highest placement package of the same year is INR 43 LPA. The average salary of an undergraduate of Thapar University is around INR 8.26 LPA.

• The Placement Rate of Thapar University is 80.74%.

NIT Jalandhar-

Out of 666 students at NIT Jalandhar(2019), 520 students received job offers in the campus placement. Around 48 of them had offers from more than one company.

• Infosys, OYO Rooms, Oracle, Whirlpool, Nestle, Paytm, Tata Motors, Reliance Industries, Honda R & D, Axis Bank, Bookmyshow, BOSCH, Samsung, Hitachi, Amazon.in, L&T Technologies Microsoft, Vedanta, etc are the companies visiting the campus.

• The average package of NIT Jalandhar is approximately INR 7.53 LPA.

• The highest package offered during the same year was INR 39.12 LPA by Adobe and Microsoft. The lowest package was of INR 6.8 LPA.

• The Placement Rate of NIT Jalandhar is 87.08%

PEC-

• American Express, Goldman Sachs, Google, Accenture, Havells India, Philips, Aakash Institute, HCL Infosystems, Sandisk are some of the well-known companies recruiting students from PEC.

• The average placement package of PEC is 7.42 lakhs and the highest salary is INR 42 LPA.

• The Placement Rate of PEC is 75.18%.

Go through the above-mentioned facts and decide which institute will be better suited for you.