Chandigarh Group of Colleges

The Chandigarh Group of Colleges (or CGC) are the educational institutions located in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district of Punjab in short distance from cities of Chandigarh and Mohali. Chandigarh Group of Colleges was established in 2001 at Landran[1] initially and at Jhanjheri in 2012.[2] In 2009, Chandigarh Group of Colleges Gharuan was established as Punjab's first integrated campus.[3] In 2012, CGC Gharuan campus was granted university status[4] as Chandigarh University.[5][6]

Chandigarh Group of Colleges
Main gate of Chandigarh Group of Colleges
TypeCollege
Established2001
AffiliationI. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University
ChairmanSatnam Singh Sandhu
PresidentRashpal Singh Dhaliwal
Location
Landran and Jhanjheri in Mohali district
,
Punjab
,
India
CampusUrban
Websitewww.cgc.edu.in

Research and development
Wikipedia event at CGC

Chandigarh Group of Colleges is among top 10 institutes of India in terms of number of patents filed.[7][8][9] CGC has students like Sukhmandeep Singh who become successful in life after doing graduation from this college. CGC has MoU with National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology for Entrepreneurship, R&D Projects and training.[10] CGC is member of AI and Deep learning project under Newton Bhabha Fund sanctioned by UK's Royal Academy of Engineering.[11] CGC was granted ₹23 lakh (US$32,000) aid by Indian Council of Medical Research for the development of nanotechnology-based lung cancer vaccine.[12]

Campus activities and sports
CGC student at an event

CGC campus students get opportunities to be part of different cultural events like fashion shows,[13] Faculty felicitation,[14] NASA sponsored CanSat competition,[15] MHRD's Smart India Hackathon events,[16] Start up to Scale Up conferences,[17] NCC best cadet,[18] Faculty Development Programmes[19][20] apart from annual Techno cultural Fests.[21][22] CGC students also participate in many sports tournaments and competitions in events such as Volleyball,[23][24] Wrestling,[25] weightlifting, power lifting, best physique championships[26]

Placements
CGC students with foreign guest

4500 MNCs like Infosys, Wipro, Microsoft, Google, HCL, Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Tata Motors, Cadence, Dell, Polaris, SAP Labs, Adobe Systems, Citrix Systems, Oracle, Cognizant, Bharti Airtel, Deloitte, IBM, Tech Mahindra with more than 490 job offers visit the campus every year for placements for both Landran[27] and Jhanjeri campuses.[28][29] Though no. of placements does not ensure that the grabbed placements are high because most of the recruiters are mass recruiters.

Courses

CGC offers following courses,[30][31] such as:

  • MTech (Love Science & Confess)
  • MTech (Computer Science & Engineering)
  • MTech (System Software)
  • MTech (Information Technology)
  • MTech (Information Security)
  • MTech (Electronics & Communication Engineering)
  • MTech (VLSI Design)
  • MTech (Mechanical Engineering)
  • BTech (Computer Science & Engineering)
  • BTech (Information Technology)
  • BTech (Electronics & Communication Engineering)
  • BTech (Mechanical Engineering)
  • B. Pharmacy
  • BBA (Service Industry Management)[32]
  • MBA (Master of Business Administration)
  • MCA (Master of Computer Application)

Ranking
  • Aspiring Minds' National Employability Award 2019[33]
  • Times Top 100 Private Engineering Institute rankings 2018- Top 50[34]
  • Chronicle 7th All India Engineering Survey - A++[35]

See also

References
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