Chandigarh Group of Colleges

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Chandigarh Group of Colleges
CGC Main Gate.jpg
Main gate of Chandigarh Group of Colleges
Type College
Established2001
Academic affiliation
 I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University
Chairman Satnam Singh Sandhu
Location
Landran and Jhanjheri in Mohali district, Punjab
,
India

30°41′11″N76°39′53″E / 30.6865°N 76.6647°E / 30.6865; 76.6647
CampusRural
Website www.cgc.edu.in

The Chandigarh Group of Colleges (or CGC) are the educational institutions located in Mohali district of Punjab, a short distance from Chandigarh and Mohali. Chandigarh Group of Colleges was established in 2001 at Landran [1] and at Jhanjeri in 2012. [2] [3]

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Individual institutions

Even having a title with a similar name, the three groups of colleges i.e. CGC Landran, CGC Jhanjeri, and Chandigarh University, are three different educational institutions, different locations, and also the three have separate identities.

CGC Landran

In 2002, CGC Landran was created under the affiliation of I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University. Better known as Landran College, CGC Landran offers many technical, pharma, management, arts and science courses. Landran is an interconnected urbanized village linked between Sohana, Kharar and Banur, three prominent towns or villages of Mohali.

Campus activities and sports

CGC campus students have the opportunity to be part of different cultural events like fashion shows, [4] Faculty felicitation, [5] the NASA-sponsored CanSat competition, [6] MHRD's Smart India Hackathon events, [7] Start up to Scale Up conferences, [8] NCC best cadet, [9] Faculty Development Programmes [10] [11] apart from annual Techno cultural Fests. [12] [13] CGC students also participate in many sports tournaments and competitions in events such as Volleyball, [14] [15] Wrestling, [16] weightlifting, power lifting, best physique championships [17]

CGC Jhanjeri

In 2012, CGC Jhanjeri [2] was initiated as technical campus and currently running under separate administration in Jhanjeri. It is a village which connects two important cities i.e. Mohali and Sirhind-Fategarh. [18]

CGC Gharuan or Chandigarh University

Initiated in 2009, CGC Gharaun later got University status by UGC in 2012 and is known as Chandigarh University. [19] [20] [21]

Placements

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CGC students with foreign guest

4500 Multinational corporations such as Infosys, Wipro, Microsoft, Google, HCL, Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Tata Motors, Cadence, Dell, Polaris, SAP Labs, Adobe Systems, Citrix Systems, Oracle, Cognizant, Bharti Airtel, Deloitte, IBM, Tech Mahindra visit the Landran [22] and Jhanjeri campuses with more than 490 job offers . [23] [24] 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

Chandigarh Group of Colleges is one of the top 10 institutes in India in terms of number of patents filed. [25] [26] [27] CGC has MoU with the National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology for Entrepreneurship, R&D Projects and training. [28] CGC is member of the AI and Deep learning project under Newton Bhabha Fund sanctioned by UK's Royal Academy of Engineering. [29] The school was granted ₹23 lakh (US$28,000) aid by Indian Council of Medical Research for the development of nanotechnology-based lung cancer vaccine. [30]

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