PSG College of Technology is an autonomous, government aided, private

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. It is affiliated with Anna University. It is affiliated to

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Trust. Among engineering colleges in India, PSG College of Technology was ranked 6th in private engineering colleges by ''

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History

PSG College of Technology was first established as PSG Industrial Institute in the year 1926 by

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. The engineering college was started in the institute campus in 1951 by G. R. Damodaran, who became its first principal. The college was conferred autonomous status by University of Madras in 1978, which was continued by the

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and subsequently by Anna University since 2001. About 48 full-time and part-time programs in science, engineering and management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels by the 11 engineering and technology, computer applications, management sciences, basic sciences and humanities departments. The institute offers three 5-year integrated sandwich engineering courses which combines class room coaching with industrial training, one of the few in the country to offer such a course. Among the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes offered by the college, many are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation of the

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(AICTE). Being autonomous, the college frames its own curricula, updates syllabus, introduces new courses and is empowered to administer its own evaluation.

Rankings

Among engineering colleges in India, PSG College of Technology ranked 30 among engineering colleges by ''

'' in 2020, and 23 among all engineering colleges in India by '' Outlook India'' in 2019. The

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(NIRF) ranked it 49th among engineering institutes in 2020 and 85th overall. NIRF also ranked it 46th in the management ranking.

Student life

Clubs

The Students Union is the apex body which controls all the aspects of student life including associations, clubs and societies. Clubs: Global Leaders' Forum, Tech Music, Drawing and Painting Club, Book Readers' Club, Entrepreneurs Club, Photography Club, Dramatic Club, IEEE association, Radio Hub, Planning Forum etc... Apart from these clubs, The college also has a Formula student team - Pegasus Racing, a Baja team and student wings of NCC and NSS.

Hostel

PSG Tech hostel was established on 27 February 1958. The hostels accommodates about 4300 students in 14 blocks named from A to N of which 5 blocks dedicated to women. There are five student dining halls, an auditorium, a library,a gym,a computer center and a guest house attached to the hostels.

Symposiums

Since 2005, the college conducts an international techno-management festival called Kriya. Every year in February, PSG also plays host to Renaissance, a two-day inter-collegiate cultural festival. Intrams is the intra-college cultural festival which is conducted in September.

Notable alumni

Aparna B Marar Aparna B. Marar is an Indian classical dancer, organiser, art educator, choreographer and singer. She is also an engineer with a postgraduate degree in wireless communication engineering from PSG College of Technology. She has received numerou ...

, classical dancer *

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, former Minister of State, Science and Technology & Earth Sciences,

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Mr. Cottalango(1992 BE-CSE), an Alumnus of PSG Colleg ...

, winner of

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, documentary filmmaker *

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* Kalidhindi B. R. Varma, Vice-chancellor, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning *

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, ex-vice chairman and ex-CEO of Cognizant and Chairman of

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* G. V. Loganathan, former professor,

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* Madhu Bhaskaran, engineer and Professor at

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* Madhusudhan Rao Lagadapati, executive chairman of Lanco Infratech *

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, cinematographer *

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* K. Pandiarajan, businessman and politician * Ramachandran Govindarasu, former secretary of

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:PSG College Of Technology Colleges affiliated to Anna University All India Council for Technical Education Engineering colleges in Coimbatore Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu Educational institutions established in 1951 1951 establishments in Madras State Sports venues in Coimbatore Academic institutions formerly affiliated with the University of Madras Technical universities and colleges in India