Swarnim Srivastava's Review On UPES, Dehradun

CAT score as the qualifying criteria followed by UPES Interview. I chose UPES as being an engineer by profession, I wanted to leverage those skills as well, hence went for technical MBA. I had a passion for Energy Industry since I feel it is industry which is always in demand Interview mostly test on motivation to join college, why domain specific MBA.

The course curriculum is highly concentrated on your domain, leads to a lot of core competency in related to your sector. However, business acumen, problem solving skills are not focused on. Unlike most business schools where curriculum is pivoted around case studies. The main mode of teaching in UPES is classroom lectures & Power point.

Internships are required to be done by students at the end of first year. However, it has to be taken up by the student themselves and not provided by the college. Thus, it depends on the network students have access to and often the student have to settle for less interesting opportunities.

College is not able to provide ample placement and job opportunities to the students. Also, college focuses only on the quantity and not the quality of jobs i.e. they are not concerned about the packages, companies, profile etc. Though college focuses on domain specific courses but it has not able to create enough market demand for the same.

College do host various technical and cultural fests through out the year but lacks the magnanimity in terms of participation from colleges all over India. However, students are not promoted to participate in national & international business based competition.

The college offers encouraging scholarship to meritorious student, top 3 students in each batch are awarded with support in fees.

Campus life is peaceful as it is situated far from the populated city, beneath the foothills of great Himalayas. It is at a peaceful & highly picturesque place. Every students heart would always belong to the campus. Student from diverse backgrounds from pan India & even in exchange students from abroad study here.

A strong network of alumni network, since the students are passing out since 2005 therefore they are placed at high positions in power sector.

College follows half yearly semester pattern and exams are evenly distributed i.e. each semester consists of mid semester exam, minor/major project, internship and final semester exam. All the above mentioned exams are strategically positioned throughout the course so as to achieve maximum learning.

The college has hired some of the most experienced professionals in the Indian power Industry & teachers with specialisation in power industry. Also, guest lectures are conducted at regular intervals in the college, wherein people across the industry value chain from generation, transmission & distribution as well as ministry, trading , financing, & consulting are invited for interactions with student.