Paavai Group Of Colleges, Namakkal

The 2025-26 AICTE mandatory disclosures of both colleges give the State Fee Committee tuition as Rs 50,000 a year for government-quota undergraduate engineering seats and Rs 50,000 a year for postgraduate engineering programmes. Management-quota undergraduate tuition is Rs 95,000 a year at Paavai Engineering College and Rs 85,000 a year at Paavai College of Engineering. The disclosures give no separate MBA or MCA fee, and no 2026-27 fee table was found.

The 2025-26 mandatory disclosures give the estimated cost of boarding and lodging as Rs 86,500 a year for the boys and girls hostels of Paavai Engineering College and Rs 62,000 a year for those of Paavai College of Engineering.

No entrance test is named for B.E. or B.Tech. admission: government-quota seats are filled through TNEA counselling on Class 12 marks (code 2611 for PEC, 2628 for PCE) and management-quota applicants use the group's pre-admission form with a Rs 1,000 demand draft. The pages name no test for the M.E., MBA or MCA. No 2027 dates are published (checked 20 October 2026); admissions for 2026-27 were shown as open.

NIRF 2025 data for Paavai Engineering College shows 686 of 744 undergraduates placed in the 2023-24 batch, with a median salary of Rs 4,25,000 and 53 students going to higher studies. Paavai College of Engineering has no NIRF sheet, so no campus-wide figure is quoted for it.

The colleges' sites and the 2026 admissions brochure describe both Paavai Engineering College and Paavai College of Engineering as accredited by NAAC with an A grade, and PEC's 2025-26 disclosure gives its status as accredited with grade A. Of PEC's 25 courses only B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering is listed as NBA accredited; PCE's courses are listed as not eligible for accreditation. No NIRF rank was found for either college.

PEC's AICTE approval for 2025-26 lists 19 undergraduate programmes (12 B.E. and 7 B.Tech.), five M.E. programmes and an MBA, including 300 seats in computer science and engineering, 240 in information technology, 180 in electronics and communication and 180 in AI and data science. Paavai College of Engineering adds B.E. Automobile Engineering and an M.E. in Power Electronics and Drives, and runs its own MBA and MCA.

No. They are separate colleges on the Pachal campus with different TNEA counselling codes (PEC 2611, PCE 2628) and separate AICTE approvals; PEC is listed as autonomous. The group also runs Paavai College of Education, whose website is pced.paavai.edu.in, and other colleges that this page does not cover.

Admission to B.E. and B.Tech. programmes at Paavai Engineering College and Paavai College of Engineering is through Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) counselling on Class 12 marks for government-quota seats, with management-quota seats filled through the group's admission office.

Paavai Group Of Colleges, Namakkal is a private institution in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, established in 2001. It is affiliated to Anna University, Chennai.

Paavai Group Of Colleges, Namakkal is also known as Paavai Engineering College, Paavai College of Engineering, Paavai Institutions and Paavai Engineering College Pachal.