Top courses in Punjab University: Fees, Placement, seats, ranks

Punjab University is a public research university which is located in Chandigarh. The Punjab University was established in the year 1882, It is one of the good universities and is very good in the research programme. Punjab University is ranked 41 by NIRF among all the universities. Punjab University is approved by AICTE and it has 188 colleges affiliated to it.

Punjab University Highlights:

Punjab University offers more than 850 courses. There are 78 different affiliated colleges of the Punjab University which offer UG, PG and PhD level courses. The university provides courses in BA, B.SC, LLB, BPED, and BTECH which includes fine arts, business, management, medical sciences and languages.

The eligibility criteria for seeking admission to Punjab University are different for different courses and there are various exams which are given by the students to take admission to the university. 

Eligibility criteria for seeking admission to Punjab University based on different courses:

The marks required to take a seat at Punjab University are based on the cut-off list that is released by the university itself every year. The cut-off for different courses is different. The expected cut-off for different courses in MBA 2023 is:

Punjab University BE expected cut-off 2023:

The courses available at Punjab University have their scope in their respective field. There are various job opportunities which are provided by the university itself. The University provides various internships which are stipends and the university also provides various scholarships to the students. The scholarships are:

1. Scholarship to students with difficulties.
2. Post matric scholarship.
3. Central sector scholarship.
4. Scholarship for SC/ST.

Fees for different courses are different at Punjab University. The fee structure for different courses is mentioned in the table:

Punjab University is ranked by NIRF, Outlook, QS World University rankings, and the Week etc. The rankings of Punjab University in different years are:

Punjab University has a placement rate of about 82% and the placement is quite good various students receive the placement from the college itself. Every year more than 324 companies visit the University for placement opportunities. There are many recruiting companies for the placement that visit the University of Punjab every year such as Amazon, Tesla, Adobe etc.

Recruiting companies of the University of Punjab:

• TOLARAM Group
• Adani
• Amazon
• Dabur
• American Express
• Korn Ferry
• EY
• Trident
• Mg Motors

The placement cell of the university selects the students eligible for seeking placement from the university and the placement cell guides the students and gives training to students. The placement cell also provides mock calls, logical reasoning, soft skills, and verbal abilities tests. Due to all such support provided by the placement cell students can receive good placement packages from the placement companies. There are more than 324 recruiting companies to give placement and there are around 383 placement offers which are made to the students of BTECH by the companies every year around 80% of students secure their seats in placement opportunities and receive placements from the college itself.  The placement record when compared to last year has increased almost every year and 16% of placement records increased from last year. Due to this a growth of 47% in the university is seen this year.

Placement Highlights of the University of Punjab:

The highest package offered by the university is INR 45 LPA which was offered to the BTech programme and the average package offered by the university is INR 8.89 LPA in the year 2022. The highest salary package was INR 58.48 LPA which was offered by TOLARAM groups and the average package offered was 13.7 LPA in the year 2022. 

About the Author:

Vanshika is pursuing BSc. (Hons) in Microbiology from Shadeed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, Delhi University. She loves to write and works as a freelancer.