A journey worth sharing

Yes, they need to get a little contemporary. Very old fashioned style of management. Need to change a little now.

To be honest, the course curriculum and exam structure are a bit old and as in the case of 90% of colleges, we also had that last night's fight to crack exams. The learning imparted is really well and some profs are way too learned. Overall faculty can be rated as 7 out of 10 with the guest faculty (students doing Ph.D. in our institute) taking the negative marks.

Placement and internships lie in the A category for all corporates and MNCs. I did my internship at Cadence (Noida) and got places at Intel (Bangalore) at a package of 18 LPA. In 30% of cases, pre-placement offers are also extended by Companies at the time of the internship. Our placement cell was very active in those times and helped a lot in getting to the best possible companies.

Cultural fests are a little less grand as compared to Rendezvous (IIT-DELHI) and Mood Indigo (IIT-BOMBAY). We usually generated and spent around 1 CR each year for our 4-day fest. Star nights were good though. I used to be the coordinator for getting sponsors for our event.

Fee Structure is recently hiked by almost 150%. I used to pay INR 3 Lakh per sem whereas now it is around 4.5 Lakh per sem. Yes, as compared to other government colleges, this is very very expensive but banks easily give loans at nominal rates of interest so education can be managed easily.

No, I didn't opt for a scholarship or education loan. But students who did got the same very easily from all the banks at a very nominal rate of interest.

As you know well, this is engineering. The gender ratio is pathetic. In my branch, we were 63 boys and 13 girls. The same was the case in other branches as well. Mechanical was way too low. The best part here was the music and dance society. Really awesome people and management took extra care for providing instruments and other necessities.

Yes, I lived in a hostel for my entire course duration (4 years). To be honest, hostels here are a nightmare as food quality is pathetic. Management is way too lazy to look after this. But now since we have Swiggy and Zomato so people don't take much fight and order from outside.

The Alumni network is managed online and is a pretty good one. Plus, I am connected with almost all my colleagues, seniors, junior via FB and Insta.

There are two Joint Entrance Exams as Mains and Advanced. Mains is to qualify for the Advanced stage while Advanced decides admission criteria into a particular college. Mains is held in May month every year and Advanced in July. I went for JEE as i was good at physics and maths in my higher secondary. Plus IIT is a good institute for graduation.

The faculty is really good and actual results are being driven through some profs. Branches like CS, Electronics, Textile, and ED are very good as compared to others. The only con here is the number of senior profs is very less as compared to Assistant and guest faculty. Also, more attention is given to PHD students in comparison to bachelor courses.