The institute offers courses in the following streams of engineering and technology:
Each department of the institute has 60 seats of which 40 are open to the students who have qualified their higher secondary examination with the subjects physics, chemistry and mathematics. 20 other seats of the institute are reserved for the students chosen by the management board directly. Shiv Shankar Institute of Engineering and Technology in Amritsar awards its students the degree of Bachelor of Technology.
The spacious campus of the institute has a well developed infrastructure with high speed computer laboratories, seminar halls, tutorial rooms and a well furnished library. The Shiv Shankar Institute of Engineering and Technology of Amritsar also has following workshops:
- Foundry Shop
- Fitting Shop
- Welding Shop
- Machine Shop
- Carpentry Shop
- Sheet Metal Shop
- Electrical and Electronic Shop
- Smithy Shop