Salem College of Engineering and Technology

Government College of Engineering, Salem, located in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India, was established in 1966 during the Third Plan period on a 400-acre site surrounded by hills. It was the third government engineering institution formed in Tamil Nadu, initially offering Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering. Metallurgical Engineering was added in 1973, Electronics and Communication Engineering in 1985, and Computer Science and Engineering in 2001. The college was affiliated with the University of Madras until 2001, briefly with Periyar University, and later became a constituent college of Anna University. Since 2009, it has been promoted as an Autonomous Engineering College in Tamil Nadu. It serves as a Regional Centre for Anna University for Ph.D. and M.S. programmes and is a zonal office for conducting Anna University examinations for 21 colleges. The institution was selected for World Bank financial assistance under the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP), receiving significant funding for infrastructure and research. Admission is through Anna University's single window counselling system. The college also has a planetarium commissioned in 1979 by Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran.