Pondicherry Engineering College

Pondicherry Engineering College is an engineering institution situated in South India on East Coast Road in Pondicherry, Puducherry on the exact border of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.The college is an institution sponsored by the Union Territory of Puducherry. The college was started in 1984 under the VII Five Year Plan. It is an autonomous institution for the purposes of administration, staff recruitment and College development and is managed by a Board of Governors. The college is autonomous for Undergraduate acedamic purposes also. And affiliated to the Pondicherry University for Postgraduate and Phd academic purposes. The institute offers eight Undergraduate, eight Postgraduate and PhD programme in the disciplines of engineering and technology .It is the only college which offers off shore structure course in civil engineering.This college is the best college in Pondicherry owing to its placement results.It was ranked the 9th best college in south India.LocationThe college campus is situated at Pillaichavady, which is about 12 km from the railway station and bus-stand in Pondicherry. It is about 150 km south of Chennai (Madras) on the shores of Bay of Bengal.CampusThe 240acre of the college campus has departmental buildings, an auditorium, library, hostels, students' amenities centre, open-air theatre, residential quarters for staff and laid out with roads, lawns and gardens.A central library with over 48000 books, 72 national journals, 98 international journals and INDEST (Indian National Digital Library of Science and Technology) facility is available for the use of staff and students.