PPN Kanpur is a premier educational institution and caters effectively to student needs. Nestled in the nucleus of Kanpur, the college offers a vast grid of academic programmes ranging from diverse streams. Admission procedures at PPN Kanpur are tuned to filtering out deserving candidates for the various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. In most of its courses, the institution admits students based on merit.

This implies that most of the candidates for admission would be chosen depending on their performance in the qualifying examinations. Under-graduate courses in BA, B. Com. B. Sc. have got PPN Kanpur admissions based on the marks scored in the class 12th or equivalent examination passed by them. The PG admission likewise follows merit-based entry through M. Sc in Chemistry, Zoology, Botany, Mathematics, and Physics.