Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology

The Zakir Husain College of Engineering and Technology (ZHCET) is a school affiliated with the Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is dedicated in the name of Dr. Zakir Husain, President of India (1967–69).

Though the debate on its inclusion in the Indian Institutes of Technology 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. The admissions to the Masters course i.e. M.Tech. is done through GATE.

The College offers courses at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level. The language of instruction in all these courses is English. There are eight academic departments associated:

• Department of Electronics Engineering
• Department of Computer Engineering
• Department of Electrical Engineering
• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Department of Chemical Engineering
• Department of Civil Engineering
• Department of Architecture
• Centre for Petroleum Studies

The college has a Book Bank, with 1,500,000 books and journal. All the enrolled students get books issued for the academic year. Apart from that all the departments have the facility of...
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