A deep dive into the PES experience

In 2016, Comed K used to have physical counseling in Bangalore. So, I had applied for Dayanand Sagar, Nitte Meenakshi, and PES. I chose PES as it was the best among them. There were no such criteria as minimum marks in Comed K. According to the marks you have achieved, there will be some colleges in that marks range. The process was very smooth. They call you as per your ranks and then you get a big screen which shows live availability of seats. You just have to choose from that and make a payment to book the seat.

I basically chose this course because that was the only one left in PES and Mech from PES is probably the best you can get in Bangalore. Student to faculty ratio would be somewhere around 1:10. The teaching method is almost the same as all other colleges and it will depend on your teacher how he approaches the subject. Some teachers are highly qualified. For eg. I had a Physics teacher in 1st year who was a PhD holder from IISc and now he is doing Post Doctoral Studies in Ethiopia. Exams are conducted every month in the form of Internal Assessments. They have weightage in your final semester aggregate. The exams are generally moderate to difficult.

Students are generally eligible from the 7th sem provided they don't have any backlogs. Many companies including several big ones like Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Amazon, Google visit the campus every year. The main campus gets placed entirely in 2 months with most students having multiple offers. Highest packages offered usually stays higher than 50 lakhs. This year it was 1.5 crore. If you include all the branches, more than 90 % students get placed. I'm planning to enter the government sector.

Fees will remain same throughout the course Every new hike is generally implemented for the upcoming batches and not the existing ones. So, that is one good thing. My college recently became a University. So, they charge a lot of money now. But it's worth it because Placements have skyrocketed for PES as it has become a brand now. Anybody from the lower-income bracket or SC/ST/OBC is eligible for scholarships every academic year. Placements are exceptional for Computer Science with most of the students bagging 2 offers.

Maya is the annual college fest and it is conducted around the month of October. As far as other events are concerned. There is a department-specific event every year like Ingenius for CS, Kludge for ECE, Vinyasa for Mech. The PES library is quite big spread over 2 floors. You can find course-related books here. The classrooms have OLED TVs installed which the teachers use for presentations. Activity Day is conducted every year which includes many sports activities like Volley Ball, Cricket, Basketball, Badminton. The college has its own separate Cricket Ground. There are many clubs like Entrepreneurship, Automobile, and Aviation clubs like Avions. With the new curriculum, it has become compulsory for students to be a part of at least one club.. So there are even more clubs now.

The boy's hostel is inside the college campus whereas the girl's hostel is a few kilometers away. You will get attached bathrooms in Boy's Hostel whereas common bathrooms in the Girl's hostel. Four meals are usually provided in a day. There is a lot of variety though. Curfew restrictions might be a hurdle sometimes. The registration process is also a little cumbersome as they will ask you to get the signatures of your parents at the time of annual fees submission. So, you will have to send the forms by post to home and get them back. I moved out after 3 years and the area around college is good and well populated with many options for accommodation.