ISM in my opinion

I heard a lot about ISM before joining for being well recognised in India in earth science department and having a good placement in PSUs like ONGC etc. The department is rich in terms of apparatus and oldest in india and have bettar alumni connection. I was selected in the first cut off by JAM and assigned ISM and some forms were have to be filled before coming to ISM and the rest of the admission procedure was done on the day of physical registration that was 23 July and hostel was alloted on the same day.

There are 11 faculty members in geophysics department. In my batch there are 44 students (34 selected by JAM for M.Sc tech course and 10 from IIT JEE exam). All the evaluation of marks and placement is done combined for both the cources and classes are also combined. In one semester we have minimum three exams one being midsem, one endsem and one quize apart from that the quizzes depends on prof only he can take more than one quiz if he wants. All the profs are highly qualified and research oriented and teaching method differed from prof to prof. They mostly teach by PPT. We have gaussian system for evaluation of marks which is considered to be more difficult that normal one because all the grades are compulsory to be assigned even if the marks lie in the range from 80 to 85.

Some companies like vedanta gives the internship opportunities and also gives the PPO if the like your work but student can also approach for internships on their own.

Placement season starts from October. Companies like ONGC, Vedanta, exxon mobile, Halliburton, etc cames in placement season some also gives PPO. Apart from that we can go for other companies that comes to campus like flipckart, amazon, google, etc if someone is interested. The highest package in geophysics department goes up to 30 lakh per annum

The total fee is around 75k to 80k for one year. The fee for odd semesters are slightly higher than as compare to even semesters. There is many scholarships available for the students with different eligibility criteria the major being MCM scholarship. There is no stipend for M.Sc. tech course as such but students from M.Tech and phd students get the stipend.

Campus is filled with activities apart from acadmic. Many fests are organised during the semester mazor being srijan, concetto etc. There are different clubs and groups for different activities like singing, dancing, fine arts, literature, sports and many more. The library is the heart of the institute with good facility of books, journals. It is fully air conditioned with 6 floors.It has a good space and perfect environment to spent some time with books.

The hostel wich us assigned to first year students, named jasper hostel is really huge with five floors divided into 4 blocks. Each floor have one canteen, mess, and tv room. Every hostel has one accesory shop where one can get all the essential items used in daly life like shope, shampoo, xerox machine, oil, pen etc.

JAM (Joint admission test for msc) physics rank more than 400 for general category 2019