Kevin Fertle's Review On Jeppiaar Engineering College, Chennai

College is a wonderful place if you can play some game especially basketball, but be warned they take in a lot of sport quota, apart from that its pretty good but very strict.

Common entrance test for engineering. Opted for ECE over Mechanical because ECE had more scope at that point in time.

The typical Anna University syllabus, in my time we had only semesters, it was tough and for people who don't like electronics it can become very dry and incredibly difficult, especially during the 3rd, 4th and 5th semesters. The college has good staffs to guide us through the tough papers, especially one Mr. Jesbastian.

We did not manage to get any internships with stipends, however, we did go to wide variety of organisations for internships, from BSNL to ONGC.

Placement market was below average that year however, in my batch we did manage to get around 150 students placed in the first two companies. Then there were some 15 other companies, from Renault Nissan to Wipro. Most of the first three placements was IT based, the following were core companies some took just 3 - 4 from whole bunch.

We have technical symposiums every year, all major festivals are celebrated well, hostel and college day has a week long celebration, then cultural and sports every year, the sporting events are pretty feisty I should add, then we do have a wonderful annual day, with some nice chief guests.

I should say it is mid range and pretty fixed, not very expensive. You do get the regular components of lab, books, exam and other fees, It can less expensive for hotel accommodation than arranging for your own accommodation unless your from Chennai. There is will be no negotiations what so ever in anything that i can guarantee.

Gender ratio is goof, however, everything is strict, and I mean STRICT. Unless you one of the few lucky individuals who can play some game really well. They have a ball of a time, for instance I played football and I rarely went to college, and they really take good care of their players, from kit sponsors to stipends.

I'm not sure of the strength of the alumni network, but you can get establish good contacts when you are in college and they can prove to be very helpful.

Not at all, exam structure was pretty standard for all colleges under Anna Univ. I JPR they do have model exams with a preset pass percentage, falling to clear the cutoff will end up making you cut short your study holidays, they do have study camps to hep students after regular class hours.

We approached this college as we had been informed by my father's colleague about the college being a good place. His son was studying Mech when I had joined. The college had just had one passed out batch and was 16th in overall ranking. We went our parish priest for guidance as this was a Christian minority institution.

During my time some staffs were really really good, some were below average. But the good ones make up for the slack, for instance DSP, Control Systems and Signals and Systems can be quite difficult, however, we did get through them rather comfortably. There was a Anand teaching engineering drawing, one work for him was pathetic good that he left the college.