Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology

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The Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology is a prestigious school affiliated with the Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is dedicated in the name of Dr. Zakir Hussain, President of India (1967-69). A long-standing leader in science and engineering,this college has had excellent results in the past.The college is being considered as a center of excellence in the various fields of engineering it offers. Though the debate on its inclusion in the Indian Institutes of Technology[1]goes on the Government of India has decided that the college along with six other colleges should be given special treatment in the form of grants and other facilities.

The admission to the Bachelor course is done through an admission test which is generally conducted in the first week of May every year. The paper is of single answer type objective question and consists of 150 question (70 Mathematics, 40 Physics, 40 Chemistry). The duration of the paper is 3 hours. In comparison to the IIT JEE the paper is relatively easy. The admissions to the Masters course i.e. M.Tech. is done through GATE.

The College offers courses in Undergraduate as well as Postgraduate level. There are 8 academic departments associated:

The college facilitates with a Book Bank, which has a great resource of more than 1,500,000 books and journals. All the enrolled students get books issued for the academic year. Apart from that all the departments have the facility of online subscription to desired journals.

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