My College Experience

Overall the college is good and disciplined. It should provide incentives for students who are publishing papers and winning awards. College doesn't provide funds even for the cultural or technical fests. Students have to get the sponsors for the same and pay any fees required for publishing a technical paper.

Course Curriculum and Exam Structure is as per the standards in IITs and NITs. The prescribed books are also the same. Overall the course curriculum focuses more on the theory knowledge imparted from books and very less practical applications are taught in college. I can't say that it is research driven at all but it is fair to all the students and the experience shared by the faculties surely adds value to us being professional. Learning Imparted as part of curriculum was not enough to crack any interview and all students has to put extra effort in order to do so. The curriculum is not at all groomed to provide any industry specific knowledge. Its up to the teachers if they want to impart some knowledge of their professional career to us. To secure on-campus selection we had to practice competitive coding online and practice basic aptitude. Industrial visits are organised every semester which is of little help to some people but not everyone.

College accepts NEFT and Demand Drafts only. The college provides complete transparency in the fee-breakdown. My program fees was 70000 per year which was feasible for my parents. The additional charges are Exam fees, Stationary fees, Convocation fees, tution fees, college fees.

I was given a scholarship of 50,000 every year by the govt. of Karnataka. I was eligible for this scholarship because my father is in Indian Air Force. To avail the scholarship I had to fill the online application and submit the acknowledgement in the college office. So overall my fees for 4 years of engineering was 80,000 rupees. There are other kind of scholarships given to students from various other background but no scholarship based on academic performance. Although people who secured 1st division did receive as cheque of 500 rupees every semester.

Gender Ratio depends entirely on the branch. In computer science the boys to girls ratio is around 3:2 while in mechanical, the ratio is 100:1. Their are short functions held during lunch break every week before the cultural fest. The major fest is Maaya that happens every odd semester and other that we have an activity day every even semester. There is VTU Sports Competitions every year and also inter departmental sports competitions as part of activity day. Labs are available in the college for all the courses offered by the college. Apart from all these there the various clubs like Equinox, Math club, IEEE etc. which held activities like quizzes, debates and many other with some prize money. Student community is diverse with a combination of people from all states across India. There is no exploitation with respect to all the rights given by constitution.

For first 2 years I was in college hostel and the fees at that time was 95000 which included food, rent, electricity bill, water bill, laundry. For First year students a separate hostel is available at 4 km away from college. College provides commute for those students. Here, each room is shared by 4 students and beds are one above the other. Common dining room and bathrooms are present. And there is a small gym and play area with a short football ground and 2 basketball courts, Wifi is available. 2nd year onward we are shifted to in-campus hostel in which each room is shared by 3 students. All college facilities including library are available for students staying in college hostel. Outside college at around 1 km many PGs for both boys and girls are available at prices around 8000 rupees. There are also apartments available at some distance from the college.

Alumni network is available on telegram and linkedin where we can connect with our seniors and ask for any kind of help. Many are helpful and responds to our queries.

I got admitted to the college through Karnataka Common Entrance Test in the year 2016. The test was held a month after 12th board exams and the admission process started in July. After I secured a decent rank of 5313 in KCET, I got this college. The admission process was smooth. First I had to go to KEA office in Malleshwaram for document verification and later to college for the admission process. All documents were submitted to college at the time of admission and I received an acknowledgement for the same. And I was good to attend college from Aug 1st. I chose the Computer Science and Engineering stream after realising that the new era is going to be completely dependent on computers and this course will help me getting into a good company in Bangalore. Other than this there were seniors who told me about the lack of job situation for other branches of engineering. I chose this college because it was the best I could get given my rank and the branch I desired.

Every subject has one teacher assigned for that particular semester. So atleast 8 teachers per semester if we are counting the practicals and labs as well. Average age would be around 40 years and almost all are post graduates. A few are PhD as well. Hierarchy mainly has 3 levels. Associate professors, Assistant Professors and Head of Department. And of course the Principal. A few teachers are really good at what they teach but most of them don't know how to teach even if they have the technical knowledge. The subjects taught by the teachers in class is of very less use if you are not doing any self study. If you are asking doubt out of the textbook, probably you will have to tell the answer to the class the next day. Although some teachers make that extra effort. Some of the faculties do have industry experience which they do share and it does motivates you to enter the corporate world but obviously it differs from person to person.