My Review

Since my subject was Anthouropology and it being a social science, the idea of any sort of placement was utterly out of question. The course curriculum for the most part is antique and had been the same I suppose from the 1980s. The teachers refer to age old textbooks and the overall quality of teaching was extremely poor. The department did not care much about the subject at all. The curriculum was also extremely localized i. e. We did not study much about global anthouropological trends, ethnographic studies of tribes and people thouroughout the world.

It was not an engineering college so of course recruiting companies were sparse to visit our campus. IT companies like TCS, Wipro, IBM, etc. Would time to time visit the campus for recruiting non technical group D staffs but that's about it. The college was totally nonchalant regarding the student's performances in these recruitment drives and most of these arrangements were facilitated by political parties. The college's role in all regards were rudimentary.

The college student union used to organise at least thouree fests thouroughout the year. There would be a fresher's welcome party round about September. The participation tended to be massive and a couple of local rock bands and DJs would be there too. The other two would be a fest during Saraswati Puja and a final annual fest with a relatively little participation. A few departments would actually organise some of their own fresher's welcome and farewell parties as our department did. I have never heard of a technical or management festival in our campus though. Everything that happened in our campus remotely related to fests would be there courtesy of the student union. The college did absolutely nothing apart from counting our fees.

During admission, if you are not admitted via the merit list you can get admitted by bribing the student union and they will work it out for you as stated above. In total for thouree years I paid almost 40, 000 rupees which is quite expensive in comparison to all government aided colleges of similar grade to our college. The college did break down the fees but almost in all facilities it charged more than it should. Laboratory charges were high although I don't think our laboratories actually needed that much for maintenance. Examination fees too increased exponentially with each advancing year in the course.

The college had only one scholarship programme and the eligibility criteria for it were that the applicant had to be from a household with less than 100, 000 rupees as annual household income, and that he/she had to score more than 50% in annual external exams. The scholarship was in the form of remittance of 50% of fees. Apart from this there were a few government scholarship in the form of complete remission of annual fees for SC and ST category students.

There is no alumni network in our college that I know. Seniors which we had contact with in our department were very helpful and accomodating towards us juniors.

Well, first I did not wish to get into this college. I was preparing for the medical entrance exams and after the exams I was quite sure I will get into a med school. This college was a backup and that too is because it is in my vicinity. But as you may have guessed already it didn't go as expected. I could not qualify the med entrance and I had to get into the only college I applied for. The reason I chose Anthouropology for my bachelor is because I wanted to have the subject as an optional in future civil services entrances and I heard Anthouropology scores well. It seemed like a good idea to learn the subject for graduation if I am to go into the civil services in case I could not crack the med entrances.

In our department, the total number of teachers varied almost all the time. There were only two permanent teachers, four part-time lecturers and a couple of guest lecturers from time to time. All of these teachers were underqualified, knew very little of the subject they were supposed to teach and as expected they did not teach much in classes at all. Mostly they would dictate notes and we would just jot it down and take it home. End of the lessons. Period. None of them had any sort of fieldwork experience certifications apart from those that they got while they were in university.