Unique at CGC


Academic Calendar

The students joining CEC and School of Engineering get an academic calendar at the time of admission. It provides them information about the events, including the date of examination, in the beginning of academic session.

Students’ Handbook

Students’ Handbook is an indispensable document handed to the students at the time of admission. It carries the details of syllabus, home assignments, contact numbers of the faculty and other details to facilitate better information and academic guidance to students.

Foreign Collaborations

CGC, managing both the colleges, has student-faculty exchange agreement with various international universities.
The exchange facilitates higher education and placements abroad. These foreign universities include University of Wolverhampton, UK, University of Technology, Sydney, Swiss School of management, Rome and San Jose State University, California

Earn While You Learn

Earn While You Learn is a new concept adapted from western university system. It encourages students to take up practical training and part-time jobs at MNCs as they pursue their degree programme at the colleges.

Pre Placement Cell

Pre Placement Cells at our colleges prepare students to face interviews and improve their communication skills. CEC and CGC’s School of Engineering have also set up Language Labs. The labs help students improve their conversational ability and pronunciation.

 

Teaching Methodology

CEC and CGC’s School of Engineering have introduced new concept of holding lectures by top rung academicians and industrialists. The senior faculty members from the institutes of repute including IITs through NPTEL programme. We also arrange students’ interface with industry. The colleges are also accredited by TCS, one of the top IT companies in India.

Wi Fi Enabled Campus

Chandigarh Group of Colleges campus is completely Wi Fi enabled. Comprehending the vast expanse of the internet for referring to journals and publications, the campus is enabled with this facility. Students can access the web round the clock in the labs and also on their laptops even after the normal college hours. With this technology at the campus, all hostels and college buildings have been provided internet connections. Notably this technology offers high performance and congestion free connections thus facilitating better and faster connectivity.

e-Class rooms

Spacious e-class rooms having excellent ambience and equipped with all modern teaching aids like LCD, NPTEL video courses, multi media projectors etc. are available from where the students can consult study material related to the syllabus and beyond.

E-Libraries

Innovative E-Libraries, on the college campuses at Landran and Gharuan store the entire information about available books and other resource material on computers. E-Libraries subscribe to international e-journals, books and reference articles. These libraries also possess over 300 video and web based courses prepared by the faculty of IITs and other leading Institutions.

 

Placement Cell

The campuses have set up separate placement cells to ensure on-the-campus placement of the students. The Placement Cells closely monitor the students’ academic performance as it hunts for on the job training opportunities and suitable jobs through on-campus-placement drives before they complete education.

Entrepreneurship Cell

The CGC management has set up Entrepreneurship Cells on both the campuses. Primarily a European concept, it aims at making students self reliant and set up their own industry or corporate house. The cells help students to prepare project reports after identifying their potential and arrange financial and technical assistance for students’ own ventures.

 

. "Joint campus by Satyam, one of the top market leader and a strong & significant brand, at CEC Landran . " Joint campus by Honeywell, one of the top market leader and a strong & significant brand, at CEC Landran . " Joint campus by Godrej, the top market leader and a strong & significant brand for the recruitment event for 2009 passing out on 11th August, 2008 at CEC Landran.The students of ECE 6th Semester bid adieu to the final year students at hotel Parkview on 29th April, 2008. Placement Day" celebrated on 11th April, 2008 at CEC. S Prakash Singh Badal, Honorable Chief Minister of Punjab was the chief guest of the occasion. Joint Campus Placement by Iflex Sloutions for 2009 Batch held successfully on 23rd March. A National Seminar on E-Governance held successfully in CBS. Sh. Ramesh Inder Singh, IAS, chief secretary to Govt. Punjab was the chief guest for the event. Annual day celebrated successfully on 17th March, S. Sukhbir Singh Badal-President Shromani Akali Dal was the chief guest. Fast Track Selection Drive of Indian Air Force Concluded Successfully. Sonalika International Tractors Limited & HDFC Bank conducted interviews at CEC, Landran. Indian Air Force held Campus Placement Drive at CEC; Satyam selects 550 students during campus recruitment in CEC; Tech. Mahindra held drive in Campus; Accenture visited CEC Campus on 4th August, 2007, PGDM launched in Chandigarh Business School of CGC , CEC students bagged top university positions in final exams, CEC students selected by Gujarat Ambuja Cements, Number of students selected by Sonalika tractors, Number of students selected by Wipro, Number of students selected by Iflex,CEC students bagged overall trophy in Intercollege PTU Weightlifting Championship "Joint campus by IBM, the world IT Leader, for the recruitment event for 2007 passing out, held sucessfully on 12th may, 2008 at CEC Landran.The students of ECE 6th Semester bid adieu to the final year students at hotel Parkview on 29th April, 2008. Placement Day"  celebrated on 11th April, 2008 at CEC. S Prakash Singh Badal, Honorable Chief Minister of Punjab was the chief guest of the occasion. Joint Campus Placement by Iflex Sloutions for 2009 Batch held successfully on 23rd March A National level seminar on E-Governance held at CGC; National Science day was celebrated with Inter College competitions organized by CC Ed on 28-02-08; Annual Sports Day" was organized by Chandigarh College of Education on 19-02-08; Talent Hunt was organized by Chandigarh College of Education on 21-09-07; CEC won overall trophy in PTUs Inter College Weight Lifting, Power Lifting & Best Physique Championship and Table Tennis (Men) Tournament for the second time consecutively.; CBS organized a paper writing contest on "Globalization and its impact on Indian Economy" on 13-02-08; National Conference on "Trends in Mechanical Engg." organized by Mech. Engg. dept.. of CEC on Feb. 8-9, 2008 in collaboration with Institution of Engineers (Pb. and Chd. state Center). Dr. Pawan Kapoor, Director CSIO was the chief guest; National Tourism Day celebrated by CCH on 25-01-08 with Mr. Rohit Badhwar, President, Airpak International as Chief Guest; CCP held the event ' Catholicon ' on 24-01-08 and 25-01-08 in association with Red Cross Society, Chandigarh and Sohana Hospital during which Blood donation, Free Eye Check Up and free other general Check ups were done; Lohri Celebrated by CGC on 14-01-08; 10 Day NSS camp organized by Chandigarh College of Education from 21-12-07 to 30-12-07. Dr. Sadhu Singh Randhawa, Dir. SCERT Punjab inaugurated and SDM mohali, Ms. Raghbir Kaur Khaira was the Chief guest. Theme of the camp was "Creating awareness among the Masses against various social evils; Chandigarh College of Education held Workshop on Creative art on 14-12-07 with the noted artist Prof. Ravinder Sharma as the Chief Guest. He also gave tips to participants for making posters, charts, Models & Collage Making; Chandigarh College of Education Celebrated Human Rights Day, Clubbning it with Martyrdom Day of "Guru Teg Bahadur Ji" on 12-12-07; "AIDS Awareness Day" organized by Chandigarh College of Education on 4-12-07; PTU's Inter College Table Tennis Tournament organized at CEC Landran (24-11-07); Chandigarh College of Hospitality put a huge stall during Chandigarh Carnival organized by Chandigarh Administration at Leisure Valley on 24-11-07; The III National Level Techno Cultural Symposium was organized by Phoenix Club of Researchers and Developers (Deptt. Of CSE/IT) of CEC on 15-11-2007 and 16-11-2007; III Inter College Technohunt-2007 organized by Cybex Club of CEC on 20-10-07-a Club of Cyberspace Explorers of the Deptt. of Computer Application, CEC (Paper reading, Quiz, Programmer of the Year, Debate etc. held). Dr. N.P. Singh, Dean Exams, PTU presided over the function ; World Chef Day Celebrated by Chandigarh College of Hospitality on 17-10-07; Camp Organized by Chandigarh College of Pharmacy on 16-08-07 for giving Awareness about the latest developments in Pharmaceutical Industry; Teacher's Day Celebrated on 5th Sept., 07 (An aptitude test conducted under the aegis of IETE chapter of the college and all eligible faculty members were promoted to APs and Sr. Lect. on this occasion); Fresher's Party PRISTINE-2007 held on 07-09-07 to welcome the new students of CGC.