St Joseph College of Engineering, Chennai

The 2025-26 mandatory disclosure lists a government-quota (TNEA) tuition fee of Rs 55,000 a year for accredited B.E./B.Tech courses and Rs 50,000 a year for non-accredited courses, and Rs 1,45,000 and Rs 1,40,000 a year under the management quota. A development fee of Rs 5,000 is extra. For the M.E. it lists Rs 25,000 a semester and for the MBA Rs 17,500 a semester. No 2026-27 fee table was found on the college's pages (checked 20 October 2026).

B.E. and B.Tech. admission is through Anna University's TNEA single-window counselling on Class 12 marks, under counselling code 1317, so no entrance test is needed; a management quota also exists. The college's pages name no entrance test for the M.E. or the MBA, and no 2027 dates are published (checked 20 October 2026).

NIRF 2026 data for the batch that graduated in 2024-25 shows 884 of 1,114 undergraduates placed, with a median salary of Rs 4,75,000. The 2025-26 mandatory disclosure gives the 2024-25 highest package as Rs 47 lakh and the average as Rs 5.5 lakh a year. Companies named on the college's site include Amazon, Cognizant, Deloitte, Infosys, UST and Zoho.

NAAC accredited the college at A+ with a CGPA of 3.46 on the four-point scale; the certificate is dated 18 June 2024 and valid up to 31 December 2026. In the NIRF 2025 engineering ranking the college is in the 201-300 band.

The 2026-27 AICTE approval lists B.E. in computer science (intake 540), electronics and communication (360), electrical and electronics (120), mechanical (90), mechatronics (30), cyber security (120) and AI and machine learning (60), and B.Tech. in information technology (480), AI and data science (420), AI and machine learning (120), computer science and business systems (60), biotechnology (60) and chemical engineering (30). Civil and electronics and instrumentation appear on the website menu but not in the 2026-27 approval.

Yes. The college page describes a boys hostel with 342 rooms for about 1,368 students and a girls hostel with 250 rooms for about 1,000 students, with a separate block for first-year undergraduates. The page gives no hostel fee, so none is quoted here.

No. Both are in the St. Joseph's Group of Institutions on Old Mamallapuram Road, Chennai, but they are separate autonomous colleges; the group's placement circulars list them side by side. This page covers St. Joseph's College of Engineering only.

Admission to B.E. and B.Tech. programmes at St. Joseph's College of Engineering is through Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions (TNEA) counselling run by Anna University, on Class 12 marks, so there is no entrance test. The college's counselling code is 1317, and a management quota also exists.

St Joseph College of Engineering, Chennai offers 17 programmes in Engineering and Management, including Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Master of Engineering, Integrated M.Tech, Master of Business Administration and BBA + MBA Integrated.

St Joseph College of Engineering, Chennai is a private institution in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, established in 1994. It is affiliated to Anna University, Chennai.

St Joseph College of Engineering, Chennai lists approval or accreditation from AICTE, NAAC and NBA.

The college lists Merit scholarship for university rank holders.

St Joseph College of Engineering, Chennai is also known as St Joseph's College of Engineering Chennai, St Josephs College of Engineering OMR and St Joseph's College of Engineering.