Chandigarh Engineering College NIRF ranking 2025
Explore Chandigarh Engineering College NIRF ranking, category ranks, scores, rank movement and official ranking trends.
Chandigarh Engineering College
Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab · NIRF ID IR-E-C-10342
At a glance
Chandigarh Engineering College is a private institution in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab. Its official submission reports a UG placement rate of 21.6% and a ₹8L median annual salary for the 2023-24 graduating batch. The latest student-strength disclosure covers 5,618 students.
2023-24
287 / 1,331
NIRF 2025
full + part-time
NIRF Engineering journey & 2025 category scoreboard
Rank in every category published for this edition. Open any category to understand its result and movement.
Placements — official numbers
UG placement rate 43.1% → 21.6%; latest median salary ₹8L. These are NIRF submission values, not marketing claims.
- 287 placed — 21.6% of the batch
- 718 chose higher studies
- 326 reported another outcome
Half of the 287 placed graduates earned above this and half earned below.
- Seven-year high
- ₹8L
- Placement rate
- 21.6%
Salary and placement rate, year by year
What this means: These are graduate outcomes, not staff pay. Median salary means half of placed graduates earned more and half earned less, so one unusually large offer cannot distort it like an average. The placement rate fell from 43.1% to 21.6%. The reported median salary moved from ₹4.3L in 2017-18 to ₹8L in 2023-24.
PG (two-year) placements
Latest three graduating batches.
Who studies here
Student strength from the NIRF 2025 submission.
Research & PhD
Research capacity behind the RPC pillar.
Where the institution spends its money
Faculty and staff salary expenditure ₹24.27 Cr → ₹60.46 Cr.
Year by year, 2017-18–2023-24
Keep these charts separate: This chart is what the institution spends, while the placement chart is what graduates earn. The salary line is the faculty and staff pay bill: ₹24.27 Cr in 2017-18 to ₹60.46 Cr in 2023-24. Latest reported library spending is ₹85.92 Cr and new lab-equipment spending is ₹4.76 Cr.
Official sources
Every deep-profile fact links back to an official NIRF submission.
The five NIRF pillars
Outreach & Inclusivity (OI) improved most: 66.2 → 71.3. Perception (PR) is the lowest latest pillar.
What the lines mean: Each line is a score out of 100: TLR covers teaching and resources, RPC research, GO graduation outcomes, OI outreach and inclusion, and PR peer perception. Chandigarh Engineering College improved most in Outreach & Inclusivity (OI) (66.2 → 71.3). Its latest strongest pillar is Outreach & Inclusivity (OI) at 71.3, while Perception (PR) is lowest at 0.5.
Questions about Chandigarh Engineering College
Ranking searches on the left, wider student questions on the right — every answer is based on the same official submissions.
Chandigarh Engineering College ranking questions
Is Chandigarh Engineering College private or government?
Chandigarh Engineering College is marked as a private institution in the NIRFRank institution registry.
Where is Chandigarh Engineering College located?
Chandigarh Engineering College is listed in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab.
Students also ask
What is the median placement salary of Chandigarh Engineering College graduates?
The official submission reports a ₹8L median annual salary for placed UG four-year graduates in 2023-24, with 287 of 1,331 graduates placed (21.6%). The latest PG two-year median is ₹7.25L.
How many students does Chandigarh Engineering College have?
The latest official student-strength disclosure reports 5,618 students, including 4,974 from outside the state and 10 international students.
Is Chandigarh Engineering College improving in research?
Its NIRF RPC pillar moved from 4.7 in 2021 to 6.9 in 2022. The latest disclosure also reports 210 PhD scholars.
How much does Chandigarh Engineering College spend on faculty, labs and its library?
Latest reported expenditure includes ₹60.46 Cr for faculty and staff salaries, ₹4.76 Cr for new lab equipment, and ₹85.92 Cr for the library. These are institution expenses, not graduate placement salaries.
Data source: NIRF, Ministry of Education, Government of India. Ranking cards and deep-profile facts are limited to official data published through the selected 2025 edition.