The Chandigarh Group of Colleges (or CGC) are the

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s located in Mohali district of

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in short distance from cities of

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and

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. Chandigarh Group of Colleges was established in 2001 at Landran initially and at Jhanjeri in 2012.

Three different Institutions under CGC

Even having a title with a similar name, the three groups of colleges i.e. CGC Landran, CGC Jhanjeri, and

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, are three different educational institutions, different locations, and also the three have separate identities.

CGC Landran

In 2002, CGC Landran was setup under the affiliation of

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. Better known as Landran College, CGC Landran is offering many technical, pharma, management, arts and science courses. Landran is an interconnected urbanized village linked between three prominent towns or villages of

i.e.

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, Kharar and Banur.

Campus activities and sports

CGC campus students get opportunities to be part of different cultural events like fashion shows, Faculty felicitation,

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Courses

CGC offers following courses, such as: * 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) * MBA (Master of Business Administration) * MCA (Master of Computer Application)

CGC Jhanjeri

In 2012, CGC Jhanjeri was initiated as technical campus and currently running under separate administration in Jhanjeri. It is a village which connects two important cities i.e.

and

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CGC Gharuan or Chandigarh University

Initiated in 2009, CGC Gharaun later got University status by UGC in 2012 and is known as

Placements

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with more than 490 job offers visit the campus every year for placements for both Landran and Jhanjeri campuses. Though no. of placements does not ensure that the grabbed placements are high because most of the recruiters are mass recruiters. The highest placement gone is 1.07 cr. by off campus placement and on campus with 45.9 lakhs in the year 2022 at Amazon.

Research and development

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Chandigarh Group of Colleges is among top 10 institutes of India in terms of number of patents filed. CGC has students like Sukhmandeep Singh who become successful in life after doing graduation from this college. CGC has MoU with

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for Entrepreneurship, R&D Projects and training. CGC is member of AI and

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project under Newton Bhabha Fund sanctioned by UK's

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. CGC was granted aid by

Indian Council of Medical Research The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research, is one of the oldest and largest medical research bodies in the world. The ICMR is funded by the Gove ...

for the development of nanotechnology-based lung cancer vaccine.

Ranking

* Aspiring Minds' National Employability Award 2019 * Times Top 100 Private Engineering Institute rankings 2018- Top 50 * Chronicle 7th All India Engineering Survey - A++

References

External links

Chandigarh Group of Colleges Landran

Chandigarh Group of Colleges Jhanjeri

Chandigarh Engineering College website
{{Authority control Engineering colleges in Chandigarh Engineering colleges in Punjab, India Educational institutions established in 2001 2001 establishments in Punjab, India