Amritangshu's Review On Institute Of Hotel Management And Catering Technology - [IHMCT] Kovalam, Thiruvananthapuram

This course focuses on a broad category of fields such as transportation, event planning, theme parks, lodging. The duration of the course is 3 years divided into 6 semesters. The course description is foundation course in food beverage service, hotel engineering, principal of food science, front office operations, management and tourism, hotel accountancy, accommodation operations, research methodology etc.

The highest package offered at my time was around 11 Lakh per annum and the lowest was 3 LPA. IMHCT has maintained 80% placement record from the last few years and have achieved a very good success in placing most of the students in top companies. During my college, I have arranged for my internship in Mumbai with Novotel which is a very good hotel property with stipend of 18,000 per month. The recruiting areas in this field includes sales and marketing, food and beverage services, front office operations etc with job roles such as management trainee, cabin crew, kitchen management trainee and customer relation executive.

The first year fee is 112350. This fees include admission fees, registration charges, examination fees, library fees, insurance fees, security deposit etc. The total for 3 years amounts to 3.18 lakhs. From my point of view the fees is really very nominal if I compared the fee structure and the course with the other big institutions in the country.

The main events such as theme dinner is also organised at our college in which specific food categories are finalized by the students who handle the entire event. Another food festival known as fandango is organised where student set up food stalls in the college campus itself and do food business with the local people and the tourists. Sport activities such as football, basketball, table tennis, swimming etc are held in our college.

We have separate Hostel facilities for boys and girls. Their are different rooms according to the occupancy such as single bed, double bed or triple seating. We all share a common bathroom. All the students in the college are provided with non veg meal which is sometimes absolutely free of cost. The mess is kind of good but if a person is not in a habit of eating rice daily will find it a little difficult. The fees of the hostel is 54000 for 1st year in which 4000 is the deposit money. I would rate the facilities at 3.5/5.

The student needs to clear the NCHMCT-JEE entrance exam with a minimum of 5580 rank to get admission in the course that you have chosen. Other than that, you need to have passed class 12th or its equivalent from any of the recognized board with English as one of the major subjects. The selection will be done on the merits basis of the JEE score and if you clear the cutoff marks of the relevant course, you will go through an online counselling process after which you will be granted admission in the college.

The teachers are really very open minded when we ask them questions and suggestions for improvement on topics such as food and beverage, operations and how to lose strategic management. Demonstration procedures are also shown by our teachers so that we can get a practical exposure of the kitchen management and hospitality service. Overall, I would say that all the faculty members are very helpful and are always keen in solving student's doubts.