WBJEE based college

Pros: 1 In the Kolkata city, one of the top ranked colleges. 2. Good placements. I got placed in BYJU for 9lpa but chose to go for MBA 3. Good college life. Lot of places and Kolkata is a cheap city. Cons: College is in a backwater locality of Kolkata Its like living in a village from where you can escape in 5 mins via auto to more plush areas Bangla speaking is an issue. Illiterate professors are screwed and will make you study some things in Bangla. Its fine. Study from YouTube instead.

COURSE CURRICULUM WAS very very laid back during my time. But in my last year, MAKAUT the university board had given option to pursue 2-3 courses via MOOCs and that was a huge change. NSEC also gave option to learn via IITBOMBAYx, an online program where IIT Bombay offered few courses and that was to be completed.

Placements are okay. Johnson Controls JCI recruited and offered 6 lakhs per annum. Adobe had come to recruit offering 35 lpa. Same for DirectI. Mass recruiter like TCS also came and most students were placed there. Few seniors also went to SIT siliguri to get jobs in ThoughtWorks. Many first worked in JCI and then switched to Thoughtworks. Opportunities are there.

Phoenix, the tech club tries to organize tech fests like Avenir and events like Aahvahan. It was a good competitive environment. But there is rampant politics in the tech club or any other club like Robotix etc. The college has a lively environment.Also Garia falls in the backyard of TMC, so there are many incidents in the area too.

Fee structure is okay. Hostel is not there. Even if it is there, locals want to earn via PG or room rent so they don't allow hostel to become a reality. It is a backward area of Kolkata so best thing is to get a room in one of the apartment buildings like Prakritir Hansi (my old hostel) and pay minimal rent to get low cost rooms and enjoy the short short stroll to college. College charged me total 3.8 lakh rupee for my degree. Most sem fee installments were 40k except the first and second sem which were 65k and 56k. Now it may have increased to 5 lakhs.

You can apply for TFW which is offered by the MAKAUT and WB board. Recently, they allowed people to be promoted without sem exams in view of COVID 19 so thats a cool one. You can also apply as a reservation category student to your own state govt and get govt funds as scholarship like one of my friends got from Bihar.

Labs are all there. Situation for core branches like Civil and Mechanical was bad during such times. Even few subject professors were missing and there was quite a lot of problems for the core branch guys to even get placement

Hostel is not there. Even if it is there, locals want to earn via PG or room rent so they don't allow hostel to become a reality. It is a backward area of Kolkata so best thing is to get a room in one of the apartment buildings like Prakritir Hansi (my old hostel) and pay minimal rent to get low cost rooms and enjoy the short short stroll to college. You can get wifi via Alliance or Wishnet services and get installation free for the first time. Its easily setup.

ALumni are good. But dont expect to reach out to such alumni who are already very senior. WHAT you see, the people you yourself interact with are the only ones who can help you out or will care enough to guide you. Some little interaction (ragging) is also there. But then its an engineering college, what do you expect.

I appeared in the exam jee mains. Got a rank of 61813 air. Did not get any nit. So filled wbjee counselling via jee mains rank. Opted for computer science. Should have filled other higher ranked colleges like techno india salt lake or heritage insti of tech.

Faculty are good. Like there are very good faculties in IT and CSE dept. Like Anupam Banerjee sir, ex-HOD of CSE was very good. But then there were professors like Ranu Sarkar who would make it difficult for outside WB students as they had poor English themselves and wanted outside state students to learn Bangla which is not a bad thing. But who wants to be taugh algorithms or data structures in Bangla?