PSG College of Technology is an autonomous, government aided, private engineering college in Coimbatore, India. It is affiliated with Anna University.It is ranked as one of the top private institutions in India. It is affiliated to PSG and Sons Charities Trust. Among engineering colleges in India, PSG College of Technology was ranked 6th in private engineering colleges by India Today in 2018.
History
PSG Industrial institute was established in 1926 by PSG and Sons Charities in Peelamedu, Coimbatore. 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 Bharathiar University and subsequently by Anna University since 2001.
Academics
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 All India Council of Technical Education. Being autonomous, the college frames its own curricula, updates syllabus, introduces new courses and is empowered to administer its own evaluation system. Since 1960, PSG College of Technology has been publishing the "PSG Design Data Book", the engineering Data hand book, used throughout the country by engineers and students. More than 505 research scholars are pursuing research programmes leading to PhD/MS/M.Tech degrees and the college is a recognized QIP centre for Postgraduate and PhD programmes.
Rankings
Among engineering colleges in India, PSG College of Technology ranked 30 among engineering colleges by India Today in 2020, and 23 among all engineering colleges in India by Outlook India in 2019. The National Institutional Ranking Framework 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 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
Annamalai K, Former IPS Officer, Chief Servant at We The Leaders
