About
PSG College of Technology was established as PSG Industrial Institute in the year 1826 by PSG and Sons Charities in Peelamedu, Coimbatore. The engineering college was started on the institute campus in 1951 by G. R. Damodaran, who became its first principal.[2] The college was conferred autonomous status by University of Madras in 1978, This status was continued by the Bharathiar University and subsequently by Anna University since 2001.
The college offers approximately 50 full-time and part-time programs in science, engineering, and management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. These programs are offered by the 11 departments, including engineering and technology, computer applications, management sciences, basic sciences, and humanities. The institute offers three five-year integrated sandwich engineering courses which combine classroom coaching with industrial training, one of the few in the country to offer such a course.[3] 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 (AICTE). Being autonomous, the college frames its own curricula, updates syllabus, introduces new courses and is empowered to administer its own evaluation
