C S Paulose's Review On Loyola College, Chennai

Management is strict sometimes the overall campus is good. They could do better in hiring the right kind of staff. Some of the faculty aren't up to the mark. Some of them have so many degrees and post graduate degrees we wonder how they got them. Some of the faculty are really good and world class.

I chose the course because I liked economics it is good, the quality of the faculty is not good always but some of them are very good it is very hard for anyone to get admission in the general category unless you have influence.

Some of the major electives are Indian economics, international economics, econometrics, micro economics and macro economics. In addition to this one can elect subjects from other departments like accountancy from the commerce department. There is also a foreign language that everyone has to opt, don't know if this has changed.

Internship was a good learning experience i did two internships. Generally if it is a big company stipends are not offered. Smaller companies offer stipends but it is easy to get an internship because Loyola as a brand has a lot of value among corporates.

Job opportunities are good companies like Delloite ,google, facebook come to campus. Placements are quite good but not everyone gets placed due to lack of mass hiring.

This is the inter collegiate cultural fests held annually national debate competition this is an elite programe which sees participation of colleges such as IIT B, Xaviers etc.

There are two shifts the first shift is aided and hence cheaper. The second shift is more expensive but still reasonable. B.Com first shift works out to about 2000 rs per semester. Second shift for the same course works out to about 15000rs per semester.

There are scholarships for underprivileged students and also based on merit each department gives scholarships to the top scorer.

Its an boys college except for two courses so campus life is not good but the timings are awesome. The first shift is from 8 am to 1:15 am and the second shift is from 1:30 pm to 6:30 pm so college isn't too long.

Hostel is not very good food isn't great either but it is cheap and easily accessible to college. You enjoy all the recreational facilities like gym, sports grounds etc when you stay there.

Alumni events are conducted on a regular basis but hardly anyone goes as the number of alumni is so big that no one thinks it makes sense to go. People meet outside there is an alumni association which keeps in touch with us about events etc that is being hosted.

Each semester has a semester exam and two internal exams. The semester exams have a weightag eof 50%, the internals have a combined weightage of 35% and an internal project has weightage of 15%.

The quality of the faculty vary some of them are very good and some are very bad so choose subjects according to faculty to make most of the course.