Igin Benny Ignatius's Review On Birla Institute Of Technology And Science - [BITS], South Goa

The student culture at BITS Goa is worthy of emulation. A diverse crowd from all over the nation. The senior-junior relations are a highlight. No one faces any discrimination or inconvenience due to race, religion, gender or anything else. It is mostly an

Entrance Preview I got around 310 in BITSAT . I did not get any good colleges and was lucky enough to get BITS Pilani,Goa Campus, its a Bachelors course as the College is deemed. The USP of the course to be very honest was great placements (You get this course at a relatively low score and are placed along with Computer Science, so elgibile to apply to companies like Google, Microsoft)

Currently, theres a combination of junior and senior professors. And essentially the senior professors take the core subjects that come in the later years. Senior Profs are experienced and good teachers. The less important subjects are taken by junior professors. But the issue here is that the college has very few senior profs, only 3 out of 10 would be senior. But luckily, theres a system of course rotation in BITS, that ensures one teacher doesnt keep teaching the same subject all his life, thus this system ensures the bad teachers are get better or thrown out.Students nevertheless study hard, and learning stays unaffected. Even projects that students take up are pretty interesting.

BITS has a Practice School prgramme which includes two courses which are basically interships that the college provides you in tie up with companies.PS1 in second year summer vacations for three months and PS2 in the final year for 6 months Internship .The placement scenario of the campus is really good besides .the student run placement team also focuses on getting stratups for placement.

Placement process for a semester starts about two months ahead of the semester.Companies provide necessary data through Job announcement form.The same is studied and a formal invitation is sent out by e-mail.A mutually convenient date and time for Pre-Placement Talk (PPT) followed by selection process is fixed.Visit is announced to the students along with data as given in Job announcement form.Interested and eligible students apply on-line.Company confirms travel plan a week before the allocated visit date.The selection list is announced as soon as company finalizes the same.Students sign the offer letter and a copy is forwarded to the company.

The campus has three annual fests viz. Waves - cultural fest, Quark - technical fest and SPREE - Indias biggest sports fest. All three are national level fests with huge participation from various colleges all over the country.

Rs.80,000 per semester not including the mess. But it goes up to a 1.5 per sem including everything, the mess, the laundry, and the other random expenses.

Along with the inspire scholarship for MsC students.BITS awards several merit cum need scholarships adn also actively finances projects.

There is no reservation in BITS. The admissions are purely based on merit. All the students who come to BITS are thus meritorious and hard working. The crowd at BITS is very decent and there is no problem of ragging. Seniors are very friendly and helpful. All the festivals are celebrated in the campus. Students and teachers with their families celebrate the festivals together with great joy. Inspite of coming from different cultural backgrounds everyone feels like home at BITS Goa.