Subrata Dey's Review On Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College - [JGEC], Jalpaiguri

'West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination' is the required entrance examination for entry in Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College.

The course (Mechanical Engineering) was overall good. The first year is based on general engineering subjects. nd and 3rd year are pure departmental subjects and 4th year is mix of departmental, industrial and environmental studies. It is in general not research focused, but fulfills the engineering requirements.

No, college does not provide internship. Instead they provide vocational training from different companies which is mostly stipend less.

Almost 75% to 80% students were placed in campus recruitment. Companies like Larsen & Toubro, Blue Star, Tega, West Bengal Power Development Corp. Ltd., Hind Motor etc came. Some software companies like Cognizant and TCS also recruits mechanical students. At 2013, the average CTC offered by those companies were nearly Rs. 3.5 lakh.

Technical Festival (Tech Fest) is organised once in a year, which runs about 3-4 days. A huge number of students from JGEC as well as other college participates in different technical events like robotics,coding, computer gaming etc. A lot of cultural festivals are organised in different times of the year. The cultural festivals are very nice and the main cultural festival is the biggest in the whole North-Bengal.

The fee structure is very much feasible. Tuition fee in only Rs. 500/- per month for Mechanical, Rs. 1000/- per month for Computer Science and Engineering and Rs. 2000/- per month for Information Technology. For other streams, it in between Rs. 500/- to Rs.1000/- So, it is not at all expensive.

I personally do not know about any loan facility offered by the college. But they do provide scholarship like half or full free of tuition fee for the students belonging to needy family.

In streams like Mechanical and Civil, there is very poor gender ratio, maybe less than 30% girls. Rest of the streams are okay in gender ratio, but not good. There is huge scope for extracurricular activities and sports. JGEC have one dedicated club for robotics.

Hostels rooms are in between okay to good. Beds, tables, chairs and cupboards are available they are mostly on sharing basis. 3 to 4 students share a single room for first to third year, but in the fourth year students get single room or room shared by 2 persons. Most of the students stay in hostels, very less in PG.

Yes, the alumni network is strong and quite helpful. JGEC has a very big alumni network. The alumni senior students take a lot of participation on social occasions.

The four course consists of 8 semesters. All semester exams has 6-8 papers and 3-4 practice/lab. Previously JGEC was under WBUT. After being autonomous in 2012, JGEC making its own question papers. Papers are not easy, but moderate and based on syllabus.

Most of the teachers are very kind, knowledgeable and helpful. They are enough qualified and very interested in teaching. But the faculty lacks in strength. In most of the streams, the available strength of professors are much less than the allotted numbers.