Nalanda College of Engineering is an government engineering college situated in Chandi near Nalanda, Bihar, India. It was inaugurated on 19 November 2008 by the chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar.[1] It is affiliated to Aryabhatta Knowledge University.[2] The college is managed by Department of Science and Technology, Bihar.

History
Nalanda College of Engineering is a Government Engineering College working under the Department of Science and Technology. It has been established by the Government of Bihar and its foundation laid by Nitish Kumar in 2008. It is situated on the holy land where Lord Buddha experienced enlightenment and Lord Vardhaman Mahavir embraced Nirvana. It belongs to the land of ancient Nalanda University where students across the world studied Buddhism.[citation needed]

Campus
NCE Chandi functions from a 51.64 acres (21 ha) campus in Chandi, Bihar. It is located in 17.3 km distance from the District's main city Bihar Sharif and 42 km from the State main city Patna.
With a cost of around Rs 40 crore, five buildings including laboratory, workshops, girls' and boys' hostels and residence for the principal of the college have been constructed in the first phase while the tender process for the construction of another 22 major and nearly a dozen minor buildings at an estimated cost of Rs 180 crore, is being initiated. The initial cost of entire construction was estimated at around Rs 166 crore in 2012 which increased to Rs 220 crore in three years.[citation needed]

Academics
Nalanda College of Engineering offers undergraduate courses in the field of engineering and technology. Its courses are recognised by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Admission is through Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination (BCECE). Vocational courses admission, directly to the second year, is through the BCECE Lateral Entry Competitive Examination.[3]

Admission
From 2019 and onwards admissions will be taken only by national level exam Joint Entrance Examination – Main merit list. Students desirous to take admissions must appear in the Joint Entrance Examination – Main exam that is conducted by National Testing Agency.
Earlier Undergraduate admissions are done through the Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board conducting by Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board, Under Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Act, 1995 of Bihar government. The Entrance examination is of two stages: First stage is the screening test or preliminary test. The screened candidates have to appear in the main examination (second stage). Based on the merit list in the second stage, successful candidates allotted seats in different engineering colleges of Bihar.
Admission to postgraduate programmes is based upon score and rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) conducted by IITs/IISc.

Mentor Institute
IIT Bombay is the mentor institute of NCE Chandi.[4] It agreed to become the mentor institution after going through the infrastructure facilities of the institute. IIT-Bombay will provide training/orientation to teachers of the Nalanda College of Engineering.
With the mentorship third-year students of the college will get an opportunity to do a two-month internship at IIT-Bombay and during the internship they will stay in Mumbai.

Departments
The colleges includes the following departments:[5]

• Department of Computer Science & Engineering
• Department of Civil Engineering
• Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
• Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Department of Applied Science & Humanities

Student life
Student societies

• Training And Placement Cell
• Internship Cell
• Coding Club
• Technical Club
• Science Club
• Sports Club
• Civil Services Club
• Entrepreneurship Cell
• Startup Cell
• Institute Innovation Cell
• Photography Club (Spark)
• NSS Club
• Chirag (Social activity cell)

Chirag is a non-profit organization which works to educate the needy children in society. This organisation was initiated by students of NCE, Chandi.

Facilities

• Computer Center
• Central Library

More than 10000 books covering almost all areas of different departments and more than 80 Journal collections. Every department has newsletter e-publication covering up the activities of every department and one college newsletter every month. Library has been divided into 3 sections: Lending section, Reading section and Reference section. Every department has its own departmental library loaded with a collection of books related to its specializations, soft version of project report of students and CDs of online course contents.

• Hostels

There are total two hostels including a newly built girls' hostel.

• Sports Facility

There is a sports club in the college.

Festivals
The major annual festival organised by NCEians every year are :

•     ATISA : Atisa (Atisa NCE) is The Technical Fest of Nalanda College of Engineering.
•     PRARAMBHA : (Prarambha NCE) is The Annual Fest of Nalanda College of Engineering.

(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda_College_of_Engineering)