Jamia Millia Islamia | Master of Computer Applications

I applied for Master of Computer Application at Jamia Millia Islamia and JNU & I opted Jamia because of its diverse environment & placement history. Admission criteria for MCA is BCA/Bachelor's degree in computer science/Engineering or equivalent degree OR passed B.Sc/B.Com/B.A with a minimum of 50%(45% for reserved category) with Mathematics at 10+2 level or at graduation level. There is no age limit for this course. The entrance exam consist of 100 questions of 100 marks(1 mark each) with a negative marking of 0.25 and time duration of 90 minutes, there are 4 sections : i) Mathematics - 50 questions ii)Reasoning - 20 questions iii)Computer awareness - 20 questions iv)English - 10 questions. Admission is purely given on the basis of marks scored in the entrance examination, generally cutoff for general students lies between 50-60% & for reserved categories, it is around 40-50%, also it can vary depending on the difficulty level of the question paper.

The course curriculum is curated in such a way that it meets the IT industry standards, courses includes Data Structure & Algorithms, Operating System, DBMS,Computer Networking, C++/Java language, Software Engineering, Machine Learning etc. Faculty:student ratio is about 1:15 Faculty are highly qualified, most of them have research papers published in National, International journals such as Springer, IJCA, New York in the field of Blockchain, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big data, cloud computing, Soft computing. Teachers uses both whiteboard & projector for the teaching purpose but there is the scope of improvement in the teaching methodology. Term exams happen twice in a year, odd semester in early December to mid-December & even semester from early may to mid-may, during every semester there were 2 sessional tests as well which covers half of the semester syllabus.

Chances of getting an internship is little difficult as compared to placements because less companies visits the campus for internship opportunities, however internship fair is also organised to invite companies to hire interns for various roles such as Software development, Business Development, Sales, Marketing, Content Writing, Editing and so on. Some of the companies offering internship roles includes Innovaccer, Trident Ltd.

From the second last semester, students become eligible for the campus placements for full-time roles. Some major companies such as Innovaccer, Springboard, American Express, Optum, OYO, Samsung, Comviva, EXL, TCS, Cognizant and others visits campus to hire Engineering & MCA students for full time roles, made more than 150+ offers. Highest package offered by Microsoft is 43LPA, Innovacce 20 LPA, Springboard 19LPA, Optum 13LPA, OYO 10.5LPA, Samsung 10LPA and the average package is 6.5LPA for software development roles for BTech/MCA students, Almost of 90% of students from the Department of Computer Science(MCA) got placed with the highest package of 15LPA offered by Unicommerce, 10 LPA by Wipro and the average package is 4LPA. I was also placed during teh campus placement and currently working as a Web developer.

The course fee is very affordable at Jamia because of it being a central university, yearly tuition fee is 8400 for the first year followed by 7500 in the successive year. Despite being an affordable fee structure Jamia also provides a various scholarship for underprivileged & studious students which include Topper's scholarship given to top 4 students of every course based on the grades on yearly basis, then there is another scholarship by Jamia Teacher's Association popularly known as JTA Scholarship given to hundreds of students based on their academic record & family income, However there is no on-campus job provided by the university for this course.

'Taleemi Mela' is the annual fest of the university which held during the month of October, there are other Techno-cultural fests as well such as Miraas, Safarnama organised by various departments of the University during March. Central library has a collection of 3.7 lakh books, e-books from sources like Oxford, Springer Nature, Wiley which helps students easily find a wide range of research papers, academic books & textbooks. Apart from this every department have their own library which includes books & journals of their respective subjects. Classrooms are well ventilated and equipped with projector for better teaching experience, departmental computer lab is fully air-conditioned & sufficient number of computers with high speed connectivity. University provides excellent sports facility which includes fully AC indoor stadium of International standards, Cricket, Football ground, Lawn Tennis, Basketball & volleyball court. Social groups such as Enactus, CRY Jamia run by its students.

Jamia provides 2/3 bedded well-ventilated hostel rooms which include a study table, chair, study table, personal wardrobe & attached balcony. Meal provided is good if not the best, breakfast such as Aloo paratha, bread butter, Puri sabzi, lunch includes Rice, Roti, Lentice & Chhole or rajma or any other vegetable, dinner includes both Veg & Non veg dishes such as Chicken, Egg, Paneer etc. Getting a hostel in Jamia is little difficult because of the shortage of Hostel, however, the university is building more hostels to meet the requirements, once get admitted into any full-time course, one need to apply for the hostel & appear for the interview which considers the Student's academic record, family's income & distance of hometown from the university & after evaluating all these parameters hostels are alloted to the respective candidates.