About Psychology at the premier Institute in Tamilnadu

Entrance was conducted by the Department.For PG course, it included a written test of descriptive questions to be answered in the form of two essaysfor M. Phil course, it included a Research Methodology examFollowed by an interview of the Department Faculty. The interview had questions on my previous degree course and the reason for me choosing Psychology

We had classes for 5 days from 10 am till 5 pm. Each day there were 2 sessions of 3 hours each.The curriculum is a semester pattern with around 4 to 5 subjects per semester. The final semester included a Dissertation and an Internship programme.During my PG, we also had electives which could be chosen on any of the 4 semester and we should fulfil around 10 to 15 credits. I chose Tamil Journalism, Sports Psychology, Child and Adult Psychopathology.Tamil Journalism gave me a greater insight on looking at different perspectives in life.Child and Adult Psychopathology helped me to gain more knowledge on Psychology Applications

I did my internship at District Rehabilitation for the Juveniles, at Chengalpet and at Saksoft ITES company. I did not claim any internship as i did not had the need for a stipend.

Very good. I got into University Assistant Professor even before my M. Phil Degree was awarded. It shows the potential of my institution. Most of my friends got placed as HR in various organisations. Some of them went for further studies in India and abroad, like IIT Madras and Michigan University.

I had the opportunity to participate in various National and International Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and Educational Festivals. Apart from these, there were convocations, 150 Years Jubilee Celebrations, Inter departmental Sports Competitions, Theatrics, Fresher Parties, Farewell Parties, inter departmental cultural programmes

The fee is too cheap for my course. During my PG I paid a one time admission fee and then tuition fee for two years. Every semester I had to pay exam fee. All together my total fee for the 2 years was only around 7000, since I got the seat by Merit. However, there were students on Management quota, whom I believe spent around 25000 per year.For my M. Phil, my total fee was only around 5000 both the semesters combined.

I did not avail of any scholarship as my course fee was too less. There were good number of scholarships and educational loans available to the students. The only thing is that the scholarship amounts don't usually come on time. But this is quite common in any Universities in Tamil Nadu.

Excellent days of my life.There were a number of extra curricular activities like sports, drama, dance, NSS.Apart from these we have a huge library with exhaustive books which is open from 8 to 8 round the year, i.e all 365 days. Library is a place where I learnt more knowledge than what i got from the classes.

Alumni activity is the one that is lacking in my department. Other departments such as the Management or Commerce have a good network of Alumni and they involve in frequent meetings and development activities. But my department does not have such frequent meeting or rather the University as a whole does not conduct such meetings.

The exams were not too hectic. We used to have a maximum of three internal tests, one assignment and one seminar, followed by one end semester exam. Atleast 50 % to be scored in both Internal and External exams to get passed in a paper. Similarly for Dissertation for Project, except that we had viva voce instead of the external written exam and we had to submit a report which is a consolidation of our internship activity or research work carried out under the guidance of a supervising faculty. Seminars, especially were more interesting and mind blowing.

Some of the faculty such as Dr Parvathy, Dr Thomas, Dr Latha, Dr Leo Fernandez, Dr Jai Kumar are really excellent in their teaching. Apart from the internal faculty we also had faculty from other industry and institutions. The way the faculty from Anna University who taught Advertisement Psychology is unforgettable and highly energising.