Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar review

Some good things about the college are the legacy of 33 years & brand value of the college. Some bad things about the college are the high fees (w.r.t the colleges of the same tier) & the huge batch size of 360 which makes the summer & final placement process much competitive. The admission process includes 3 rounds I,e GD-PI-WAT after you clear the written tests. The rounds happens in many cities around the country in the month of Feb.-March. You can get more info on the admission process etc from the official pagalguy groups also.

The course is good & it is the flagship course of the college. The institute is having a faculty-to-student ratio of about 1:15 which is quite good. The case-based methodology is used here which is good as well. Many of the faculties are highly qualified i.e PHDs. Regarding exams, end term exam happens at the end of the course for each of the subjects along with presentations & bi-weekly/tri-weekly quizzes. You can manage these quizzes if you've listened carefully in the class & revise them at regular intervals.

Various companies come on campus for summers such as Tata Steel, TCS, Deloitte, ICICI Bank among others. So the college is able to place all the available candidates. But the huge batch size of 360 causes some problems as many people don't get their preferred roles as the roles are mostly sales & marketing oriented. The competition also becomes really high with the huge batch size.

The total course fee is 20.3 lakhs (which is quite high w.r.t to the college of the same tier) & is about 22 lakhs if you include mess & hostel charges. This will also increase this year most probably. So decide properly before joining here. then your personal expenses are also there. There is no scholarship offered by the college; so you need to bear these costs yourself. You can get study loans from all the banks to fund your education. Regarding the final placements, the college achieves 100 % placements each year. So yeah you'll get a job from here.

The annual cultural fest is known as expressions which is a 3-day mega event & it happens in the month of November. The library is good hosting thousands of books & access to many reputed journals. The classroom is well equipped with A/C & projector etc. There are a total of 19 clubs & committees that the students can be part of depending on their interests.

There are many hostels inside the campus for both boys & girls namely GR 1, GR 2, Cenderate, Studio, RMH, etc. Some of them are having single rooms with shared bathrooms & soma are having 2-sharing rooms with attached toilets & bathrooms. The mess food is good & you've to stay in the college hostels only as it is compulsory.

There are total of 3 rounds i.e GD-WAT-PI. Gd topics are generally from CA, some economics-related topics & sometimes some abstract topics. So you need to prepare accordingly. The WAT topic is the same as the GD topic. For PI, freshers will get questions from acads; so prepare some of your undergrad subjects well. For people with workex, you must also prepare for 1 favorite subject of yours from UG as you might also get questions from there apart from being well versed with your work-related things.