Stewyn Chaudary's Review On St. Francis Institute Of Technology - [SFIT], Mumbai

I took MHT-CET to get into St. Francis Institute Of Technology (SFIT). My score was 90 out of 200 decent score considering results were very low during my times. I enquired lot about SFIT with former students and found out that it was a good college with very strict attendance policy. The professors had a good experience and willing to help when required. And that's when I decided to choose this college.

My course had 8 semesters, 2 per year. Course curriculum was very versatile and interesting. There were 40 subjects in total 8 semesters Some of the programming languages which I learned during this year of my B.E where Java, C++ and C.

To my knowledge, there are no internship programs held in college. But during my third year India Internet Pvt. Ltd., India had given its application for beta testing. And later many other companies followed, so students got some kind of exposure to testing application. They paid around 1000 INR for each bug found in their application.

We had top companies like TCS, Capgemini, Accenture come in for recruitment. TCS recruited around 85 students and gave package around 3.20 lacs P.A. While Capgemini recruited around 90 students and paid approx 3.15 lacs P.A. Other small companies came up for recruitment and paid between 2.40 lacs to 3.75 lacs package.

SFIT organised had lot of events. IRIS was main event where in all students from other colleges where able to participate in various sports and technical events. Robocon was one such technical event where students had to develop their own model of robot and present before the committee.

The SFIT is less expensive as compared to other colleges in the area. In the start of my first year, I had to pay 72,000 INR with no other charges. The fee increased by 10% every year. In the second year, I paid around 80,000 INR. In the third year the fee was about 87,120 INR and during my last year, I paid around 96,000 INR.

No to my knowledge there is no scholarship provided in SFIT for students with financial problems. Only the student who tops from each branch has his fee refunded .i.e only 3 students from 3 branch receive scholarship every semester.

Gender ratios are approximately 1:1 Males to Females. Workshops were very frequently conducted with wide scope of topics and cultural societies/clubs were diverse. Tolerance level was good in SFIT as we had students from all walks of life, belonging to different communities castes, demographics and yet there was no bias.

St Francis is minority college and has some seats reserved for catholic students. I had to collect an application form from the college and submit it before 05th June. In mid-June, all minority students were called and seated according to their score and were called one by one to select their streams of interest. And on the same day, my admission was confirmed in SFIT.

Most of the faculty has detailed knowledge about the subjects and are willing to go an extra mile to help the students in understanding the subjects by comparing the classroom concepts with a real-world example. Though there are few faculty who have their lecture's very boring and have limited knowledge. Most of the faculty are Ph.D or pursuing Ph.D.