SP College Review

Nothing else. Just the things that I've previously mentioned. They don't appreciate the students' diversity and their talents. Just the local students steal all the attention, in certain criteria. There is clear visible discrimination with the non-Telugu students. They favor and side with the local students. [The lecturers]. I'm gonna tell you something that happened to me. I live almost 28 KM away from the college. So, I don't attend the classes sometimes.

Course curriculum and exam structure are purely textbook, theory based. It's not research driven, no. It just gives you knowledge and facts and stuff like that but no actual research projects are allotted to the students. It should be updated [the books, the course]. Some practical nature of polity and public administration should be taught to the students, maybe they should be taken to a real Govt. administrator's office. There should be more interaction and stuff seriously.

Some small and medium firms/ companies come and offer the internships to the students studying in the final year. Based on their academic performance, interpersonal skills and an interview or something. The packages offered to the students don't really seem any great or impressive, I think they're bottom line packages. Also, I personally was never interested in these internship drives and never attended any.

The college organizes various cultural and management events on the occasion of any National festivals or regional festivals. Or on the college foundation day. Or on any other day that's important to the college's faculty. Majority of the students participate in them. They're intra college level. They're okay. Can't judge any college in these criteria. I don't really consider these events as crucial in impacting an average student's life.

Extremely feasible. Atleast it was for the batch that I'm in. The college fees is now almost doubled due to government and college regulations. But still, I wouldn't say that it is not affordable at all. Yes, it could be a little low, considering the theoretical courses and the college level, but It is feasible to most of the students. And for the ones coming from a little bit of poor households, there's a scholarship programme for them.

No, I didn't avail any of these things. But yeah, there's a scholarship program for the students who belong to the lower/lowest income groups. The criteria is the monthly income of a student's parents and them stating that they can't afford the fee and expenditure amount etc. The procedure is simple; the students have to fill an online application and submit the same at the college academic counter. Then, they're set. A list of all the students who applied and successfully got the scholarship is displayed on the college notice board a few weeks later, after the government allots them the amount. I think it's Direct Bank Transfer [DBT] based thing.

It's marginally OK. The gender ratio is terrible. In my class, with the total number of students standing at 60, there are 3 girls. So, yeah, terrible. There aren't any parties, there's just this annual day and a Fresher's party where students take part in celebrations in the college auditorium but it isn't some really impressive thing either. Student diversity isn't appreciated. Non-Telugu students like me and some other guys at the college may find themselves isolated and unwanted. The economic status of the college is again, marginally OK. It's low, the investment in infrastructure and facilities is LOW. You guys should take a look at the classrooms of our course. They're ancient. The benches are ancient. It gets better for students of other courses since they have comparatively better things.

Nah, there isn't any interaction between the seniors and the juniors unless they speak to you, or vice-versa. It's even more true for the guys who don't speak Telugu. We guys just stick together and try to help each other out in things pertaining to the academics. I won't say that they [Telugu students] are bad guys or something. But, we feel left alone. As our classmates, they should consider using Hindi too. Atleast half of them understand Hindi. And maybe they speak it too. But, not with us. Leave the students, if they're not mature. Don't you think the lecturers should be? They teach in english. 100% of the time. They don't even listen to our requests which are generally us saying that "Sir/Mam, can you please explain stuff in English?" Then, they speak in English for barely a minute and resume their Telugu lessons. It's really, really discriminatory and unfair.

Me and my best friend from high school got into this college through an online admission portal owned by the Govt of Telangana known as DOST. There is some crazy allotting of students according to their 12th class marks [they say so], but nothing is transparent. There is no public list available of all the students to verify the credibility of this system. There may be partiality, from what me and my classmate had experienced 3 years ago.

There's 1 lecturer for each subject at the time that I'm writing this review. Most of them seem qualified [since they're permanently employed]. But the ones who are on contract basis aren't that cool. I mean they don't really seem 100% professional at teaching. Also, *ALL* of them use Telugu for teaching, in an ENGLISH medium course. Look, I get it. They use it for the regional students who are in majority and stuff like that. BUT, what about the guys who are from other states? Like me? 0/10 points in this regard. I have to rely on self-study due to this. To others who understand the language, it's all fair and fun. But to me, it's gibberish since I don't understand a thing they say in Telugu.