Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology

Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology (HiCET) is a private engineering college on the Valley Campus, Pollachi Highway, Coimbatore, established in 2000 by T.S.R. Khannaiyann, founder chairman of the Hindusthan Educational and Charitable Trust. It is affiliated to Anna University, Chennai, has been autonomous since 2016-17, is approved by AICTE and is recognised by the UGC under Sections 2(f) and 12B. NAAC accredited it at A++ in its second cycle, with a CGPA of 3.69 on a four-point scale, on 6 October 2023, valid up to 5 October 2028. NIRF 2025 placed it in the 201-300 band of the Engineering category, and its NIRF 2025 submission lists a sanctioned intake of 1,230 UG and 81 PG seats for 2023-24 and 5,274 UG and 125 PG students.

The UG list has 17 four-year programmes: B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Electronics, Electronics and Communication, Mechanical, Aeronautical, Civil, Mechatronics, Automobile, Electronics and Instrumentation, Biomedical and Computer Science and Engineering (Cyber Security), and B.Tech. in Information Technology, Agricultural Engineering, Food Technology, Chemical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Computer Science and Business Systems. Postgraduate programmes are the MBA, MCA and M.E. in CAD/CAM, Communication Systems, Computer Science and Engineering and Embedded Systems, and the college lists Ph.D. research programmes. First-year B.E./B.Tech admission is by cut-off marks from the Higher Secondary examination (100 for Mathematics and 100 for Physics and Chemistry together); M.E. uses TANCET, CET or GATE, MBA uses MAT, TANCET or CET and MCA uses TANCET or CET.