Internship Opportunities

Based on my jee mains rank I got this college in the 6th round of Josaa counseling. I scored about 97 percentile in my jee exam. Since I don't avail any quota and my jee mains rank was also not so good that i could expect a very good branch in the top NIT's but then i finally landed in NIT Durgapur which is among top 10 NIT's of India with a decent branch. The admission process was quite simple as we just needed to lock the allotted college after the Josaa rounds after which I got a bonafide certificate and admission certificate through the email with the semester registration details written in it. Overall a student from the general category with 96 to 100 percentile can definitely expect to get into this college. The above details that I provided are of online counseling done during the lockdowns in 2020.

I choose the chemical engineering course and also it has huge scope in research and industry. The faculty to student ratio in the chemical department is 16:420 which includes the overall chemical department from the 3rd to 8th semester. To be specific about mt my batch we have a faculty-to-student ratio of about 11 :77. The faculty members are highly learned and do tech really well. There are a total of 3 exams that are conducted in a semester. Firstly comes our continuous assessments(CA) which are conducted after a span of 1 month after the semester starts. CA 1 comprises 15 marks, CA2 comprises 25 marks and then, at last, we have our end -sem exams which comprise 60 marks. The pattern and marking scheme of the paper is completely decided by our profs. A student who follows the professor's notes and has attended all of his classes can easily pass.

Since I am currently in the 3rd semester i haven't applied for any internship however this year many reputed companies visited the campus and a lot of students grabbed internship opportunities in companies like MICROSOFT, Capgemini, TATA Steel, HAL, IISc, DRDO, NITI Aayog, etc. All these companies offered a good stipend to the students and some of our seniors also got PPO in these companies.

Students from the 5th semester can apply for internships and those in the 7th semester are eligible to sit in the campus placements. Many reputed companies visited last year in our campus include many reputed campuses like TCS, Infosys, Amazon, Gooogle India, Capgemini, Samsung R&D. Total 116 companies arrived last time. Total 506 jobs were offered and a total of 456 were placed. The remaining no. of students either went for higher studies or started their own startups. The highest package offered last year was 44LPA CTC and the average package was 8.5 LPA CTC. About 71.92% of students got placed last year. After getting the degree I want to pursue higher studies after qualifying for the GATE examinations.

Taking about the fee structure in the pandemic period we paid about 70,000 per semester which included the semester fee+ the hostel establishment charges. There are numerous opportunities for students who want to avail scholarships; firstly students get scholarships based on their category, then there are scholorships which various state governments provide to the students. Also, the National scholorship portal provides opportunities to the minority community students and the students with family income less than 2.5 lakh to avail the scholarship. one can also apply for scholorship from ONGC.

Although I haven't seen the campus yet because of the pandemic still I can give some insights about college life on the basis of the experience of my seniors. They told me that the best phase in the 4 years of engineering is the time which a student passes in 1st year i.e. in hall 11 (in case of boys). Our campus has a huge library with a large collection of books. This year college has also started an online library keeping in mind the need of the hour. There are several clubs and societies run by students in our college namely: CCA, SAE, MNTC, EDC, LC, Spic macay, Music club, Dnaceclub etc..