Pavan Govindraj's Review On Dayananda Sagar University - [DSU], Bangalore

One of the most negative things about this college that has to be considered is the place or region, It's situated on NHAI hosur main road,kudlu gate, For your information this region is in one of bangalore's top 5 highest traffic point ever. College timings are 8:45am to 4:45 pm for CSE and 3:30pm for other departments. Traffic reaches peak after 5:30. This is the main suffering if you are a student of this college. Locals here don't know the pain, they are used to as they stay nearby. If you are staying anywhere 5-6km away from college be ready to face the pain 4long years. None can explain the pain of traveling 2.5 hours morning and 3hours returning home other than me as I stay 20kms away. Somehow suffered 3long years. Keep in mind when you take admission through DSAT you are admitted to DSU kudlu gate and not DSCE. Please take this seriously before joining this college else your graduation gets messed up.This is a pain in me for my mistake. Other than this academics and all future opportunities are positive. You certificate will be backed up by a brand name "Dayananda Sagar" wherever you go. All the Best

Ours campus here in kudlu gate (unlike main campus in kumarswamy layout) is by name called "innovation campus" for its various tech-labs present in the campus. Nvidia, bosch- rexroth, vmware, GE labs are some of them, so these make little extra practical along with course curriculum being foundation to it, we have (be it any sem) 4 labs a week. Out of which 2 are important as there are 2 lab exams, the other two are just information purposes or acquiring skills. Overall course curriculum is ok but becoming hectic as they adding new courses every year to previous semesters by looking at other Universities the juniors said.

As I've still not come across placements and interview thing. I lack clear knowledge about it but as per our seniors about 40% combining students from all the departments get placed every year with average 5lakh package. Also as I mentioned earlier about our innovation campus there is a one floor small startup ( a workplace) called derbi foundation, eligible students have an option of doing internships there, this year for seniors tcs,Infosys, mind tree and few companies from Japan(don't know their names) had visited and highest was for two students with 16lpa and 12lpa from those Japan companies. And tcs, Infosys and mindtree offered 4-6lpa package. Those Japan companies are mass recruiters for our college xD

No events at all, seriously once in two years that too upon requesting and forcing the management,all happens in our main campus college DSCE,even if we have it's small ethnic day or kannada rajyostava (too rare), since ours is a group of institutions they say fest will be celebrated once for all three campuses, but there is no participation from our campus it's only from DSCE. There is no much crowd during fests in our college, it's only 50-60 ppl. Almost everyone hates to come to that high traffic point when there is no class or no serious reason. Not just fests there is very little importance given to sports. No ground no facilities nothing.0 enjoyment or entertainment. You need to create one if you are interested

College charges 40 thousand extra to that of entrance test fee as college fee. Ex: Total KCET seat fee = KCET fee+ college fee. CET fee is 56k generally,so total CET seat fee =56k+40k = 96k ie 1lakh *appros even if you have a merit seat allotted. Admission by Comedk goes the same. For admission through DSAT test, a donation of 4 lakh while admission + 1.8lakh fee every year is to be paid. And legendary management fees keeps changing every year and depends on the student.his/her 12 marks. Usually 4lakh every year may be *no idea of clear figures. Getting seat through management or DSAT by paying such high fees is definitely not worth to this college. not just this college but management in any engineering college in general.

There is no scholarship that is offered exclusively by the college, but it procceses other scholarships from government or other organizations if any. There is student loan facility from icici,hdfc,kotak and SBI banks with which the college has partnered. There are other loan plans as well other than banks which I don't know.

You can find 0% importance given to extra curricular activities and it's only academics and academics related activities like practicals, seminar,or quizzes. Student Gender ratio is 50:50. Only in mech departments it's 90 male:10 female ratio. Again in faculties and staff it's 40 male:60 female ratio. There are no such student or dorm parties formed. And few faculties as I said are partial towards race and religion.except that no other tolerance would be required.

I don't stay in hostel but as per my hostel mate. it's 1.5lakh a year per head in a hostel room shared by 4. Infrastructure is quite good and maintenance and service is done regularly. 1.5lakh per head includes the stay,food, maintenance,and college bus fees. But hostel accommodation is very limited.In case of pg's you can get near BTM layout which is 3kms away. It starts at 6-7k a month for a decent PG.

Seniors are a hope or stress buster. They help with their cool talks and tell us about future happenings. In the beginning when joined most of the seniors showed their hatred towards joining this college. They told about all the sufferings they have had with this college.

I got admission for CSE branch based on my KCET rank, the cutoff rank for CET merit for this college was below average which was why any average student could easily get a seat. There are four engineering departments in this college (CSE,ECE,MECH, Aeronautical). If not KCET you can even enter by private entrance DSAT conducted by the university and success rate is always 95% through DSAT.decent 12th knowledge is enough to clear it. Also fee paid by DSAT students is twice of that paid by KCET. IF not these, the famous "management quota " is always there. fee maybe 4-4.5lakhs *appros per year.

Only 50% of the teaching faculty are actually a bunch of clear knowledge of whatever they teach. The rest pretend to be extremely super pros but in reality there not which any student like me can easily identify. But almost 90% of faculties are phd's wonder how. Or majority have the knowledge and understanding but do not know how to teach those. Some faculties are there they judge students based on their previous sem marks and by discussing with faculties who handled the class previously and some in worst case by looking at students face(like hard to mention few see caste and religion of students *disgusting) and it's a private institution marks depends on opinion teacher have on you (as I told they Judge) very few not all faculties. (these are my opinion and need not be a fact).