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Faculty
4.5
Social Life
4.5
Placement
5.0
Course
4.0
Campus
4.5
Hostel
5.0
Rahul sharma
Rahul sharma
Chitkara University (Chandigarh), B.Tech, Civil Engineering
Reviewed on May 3, 2017

Remarks

An essay. Everybody in college hates papers. Nobody hates writing papers as much as college instructors hate grading papers (and no, having a robot do it is not the answer).

Entrance Preview

I have given jee mains entrance exam and I got admission in this college. I score 150 marks out of 360 marks and my rank was 26000.

Course Curriculum Overview

4

Assessment is an ongoing process aimed at understanding and improving student learning. It involves making our expectations explicit and public; setting appropriate and high standards for learning quality; systematically gathering, analyzing, and interpreting evidence to determine how well performance matches those expectations and standards; and using the resulting information to document, explain, and improve performance.

Internships Opportunities

Yes, students who are selected receive a monthly stipend that is based on education level and experience. ... If a lab does not have the funds to cover the stipend, they may invite you to join the lab as an unpaid volunteer. Is summer housing provided by the NIH? The NIH is unable to provide housing for summer interns.

Placement Experience

5

Online work placement resources. The Association of Graduate Recruiters site contains advice, events listings and research results. The AGR run a bi-annual survey of the graduate jobs market, the results of which are published in the papers. The National Council for Work Experience is another great place to start.

College Events

4.5

College cultural events are some of the most happening events in the city. The inauguration of Swayam 2013 — the annual intercollegiate cultural fest organized by MVJ College of Engineering — that took place recently had a filmi touch, as Sandalwood actresses Pooja Gandhi and Aindrita Ray were present at the event.

Fee Structure And Facilities

What fee structure of college (undergraduate course) will be considered as expensive in India? for example, a college has fees of 6 lacs per year (does not include accomodation) . Will this college be considered as expensive or not ? 1 ANSWER Anonymous Anonymous Written May 4, 2016 Expensive or not will vary greatly from one family to another. I will take my family and my very close friend's as an example. My family's annual income is about 21L INR. My father took a loan this year to buy an apartment and he took a loan two years back to buy a car. Annual payments to the repayment of both the loans amount to a total of 8.4L (approximately). That leaves 12.6L out of which if we deduct 6L as college fee and additional 1.6L as accommodation and every other college expense, the family is left with 4L per year for everything else (food, electricity, petrol, gas, clothes, entertainment etc). Apart from that we have total savings of about 13L. I believe that 6L per year without accommodation is a borderline expensive college for us, we can afford that college but will like to have some cheaper and equally good alternatives.

Fees and Financial Aid

Few college-bound students have the financial resources to pay for their post-secondary education entirely out of pocket. Even students with substantial college savings plans typically find that they are left with sizable amounts of unmet need. The average total cost of attending a public four-year college is more than $20,000 per academic year. Students planning to attend a private college or university can expect to spend more than $30,000 per academic year. A college education is a costly proposition, and all indications are that those costs are only going to increase.

Campus Life

4.5

If you are looking for world class facilities and the ability to use them, you have come to the right place. VIT has very good lab facilities and students are encouraged to use them as much as they can for projects (there's a caveat here which i'll get to later) and other non-curricular activities. VIT is increasingly orienting itself to a more research focused college with CoE's and other interesting lab facilities coming up all over campus. There's also a conscious shift of focus from purely academic subjects to more research based learning. The experiment is in its initial stages and may yet fail, but its a step in the right direction. For all this shift of focus however, the majority of the faculty in VIT is mediocre at best. The professors know laughably little about the subjects they teach. More often than not, they refer books of foreign authors and teach the same concepts to students verbatim. If a student can parrot out the same stuff in the exams, full credit is awarded. There isn't much scope for learning. There are some faculty who are truly amazing, but its a select few and you'd be lucky to have any interaction with them in 4 years. Another thing that is wrong with the academic system is the incredible frequency of examinations in VIT. Quiz 1,2,3 CAT 1,2 and TEE in just a six month (or less) time frame is a bit too much. VIT needs to drop an exam or two to increase learning and reduce rote teaching. Students need to have more time to focus on the subject rather than just the exams. The FFCS system is a double edged sword. Its very good and quite efficiently managed, considering the sheer number of students that it serves. On the flipside, if you happen to have a bad time slot in your lottery, you're basically screwed. The system is meant to be used when the teacher student ratio is decently balanced and there are sufficient courses on offer for all. This is far from being remotely true in VIT and this is why FFCS fails miserably for a number of students every year. Coming to the non-academic aspects of VIT life. The hostel facilities are pretty great all things considered and even the mess food isn't as bad as it is in many other colleges in the country. There is room for improvement, of course, but all the messes serve palatable, good quality food in hygienic conditions which is a pretty good deal. Student life in VIT is probably the worst that can be encountered in college campuses throughout the country. A huge proportion of the administration's time and energy is wasted in concocting ludicrous and plainly outrageous rules for the student community. I won't waste time listing them all out, but there is a massive list of these. There is a huge suppression of student expression and freedom in general in campus. With patrolling by guards as if it were a high security prison, limited areas for students to just sit and relax with friends and severely limited places to even stand after dark, VIT campus is probably the worst in terms of student friendliness. There is a whole posse of guards with whistles whose job description is too shoo people away from places and generally provoke angry reactions. There is also the all pervasive fear of reprisals from management. The guards and any other persons are quite quick to grab and snatch (quite literally in some cases) ID cards from students and then threaten them with consequences and action. is turning into a morbid police state with little respect for individual privacy or freedom of any kind. The management has a medieval and parochial mindset which it seeks to enforce on a student body of 20000 which is extremely diverse. Moral policing and enforcement of "Values" is more important to them than keeping out of students' private lives and letting kids make their own choices. Gender inequality is the norm in Girls are regularly and constantly discriminated against in all aspects of college life from hostel curfews to excursions outside campus and on and on it goes. Girls have an extremely restrictive and policed environment which does not teach them any independence at all. It only makes them more and more dependent on the system for each and every need that they have. I cannot stress this enough: NEVER SEND A GIRL STUDENT TO THIS UNIVERSITY. There is another major aspect that is going to cause a rapid decline in everything in The massive numbers of students that it takes in every year. The batch size alone is causing the teacher-student ratio to plummet and diluting everything far more than is good. I have not described all aspects and categories mentioned in the question above, but i feel i have covered the most important areas of university life in In sum, its not worth it. Edit: Adding my (brief) answer(s) on placements Karan Gupta's answer to How were the placements uring 2014? Karan Gupta's answer to Is it possible forB.Tech graduates to get non technical jobs during the campus placeme

Hostel Facilities

5

The conversation which I have had about mess food with couple of my friends who are from different colleges has brought me to the conclusion that mess food served in my college is much better than other colleges!!! Special mess is pretty good!!! However , most of the Vitians including me complain about mess food because ghar k khane ki baat hi kuch aur hi hoti hai. However generally speaking mess food in my college is pretty good!!

Alumni/Alumna

The percentage of alumni in management positions was taken from LinkedIn users who identified as having attended the school. Michigan State University. Syracuse University. University of Florida. University of Alabama. Clemson University. Boston University. Brigham Young University. University of Minnesota.

Exam Structure

) Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) carrying 1 or 2 marks each in all papers and sections. These questions are objective in nature, and each will have a choice of four answers, out of which the candidate has to mark the correct answer(s). On test day, you have three and a half hours to complete the four sections of the GMAT exam – Analytical Writing Assessment, Integrated Reasoning, Quantitative, and Verbal.

Admission

I have given jee mains entrance exam and I got admission in this college. I score 150 marks out of 360 marks and my rank was 26000. On the bases of jee mains entrance exam I also got schoollership on the jee mains exam of fifty thousand rupees for jee mains exam

Faculty

4.5

is very easy to become disheartened by student complaints, lack of administrative support, budget cuts, and job insecurity. However, what is it that drew you to your discipline originally? For most of us, it was a true passion for the subject, a desire to learn all about it, and a further desire to then share that knowledge. In higher education, we have opportunities to learn, research, teach, and shape the future of our disciplines and influence the larger world through our disciplines. Successful college teachers recognize that many of today’s college students have learning needs. Taking actions like these helps them to meet those challenges successfully.

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