Review of my college

JSS is a pretty great college to do your undergrad from. Be it academics,extra curricular activities, gentry, infrastructure,or faculty,it stands apart from the rest of the private colleges of UPTU. However,the college must improve its hostel facility.

Admitted through UPSEE entrance examination, I was allotted Electrical engineering department. There were absolutely no qualms whatsoever in the admission process. The support staff was overwhelming. There wasn't any interview process as such,instead it was a cake walk with a simple admission procedure.

The electrical engineering department that I was admitted in did boast of an experienced faculty and lab infrastructure. Most of the professors were well masters of their trade and there were plenty of labs for each sub trade with Control Systems, Electrical Machines, Network and Measurements,Power Electronics and Drives, Simulation and Numerical Technique labs to name a few. It also had an installed power substation by Schneider Electric with plenty of equipment for R&D. The environment was that of mutual learning and enhancement of ideas with various projects and mini projects encouraged by the faculty members and taken up by the students. The IEEE journals were free to be availed by anyone via department and college subscription. Several fests and inter college events and competitions pertaining to Robotics,TRAM design, Embedded and Control Systems were encouraged. All in all, one would experience a great time in the EE department in JSS,Noida.

Several companies visited the campus to hire students for internship with a handsome stipend. For example, MarkIT hired some students as interns with a stipend of around 20,000 per month. Students from streams other than CS/IT had to go for internships and industrial training on their own.

The training and placement cell did put in a lot of efforts last year to get the maximum number of students placed. Companies like Wipro (hired 98 students) and Tech Mahindra were among the mass recruiters with an average package of around 3.4 lakh/annum. Some IT based companies like iON Digital, Kronos recruited around 10 students combined,with packages of 12 lakhs and 9 lakhs respectively. Indian Navy, JSS's STEP, HCL, Torrent Power (for Electrical),Trianz,Maxim(for Mechanical) were among the other recruiters.

Zealicon is the annual technical and the cultural fest hosted by JSS. It is managed by Student Councils of each department viz, Oorja(Electrical), Nibble(CS), PSpice (Instrumentation),ACE(Civil),etc. Various events like tech quizzes, business quizzes, HuntIT, CodeWars, RoboWars, TRAM, Wirology, LAN Gaming, Dance competitions,War of Bands,Skits, Singing,DJ Nights,etc were organized. In addition to this an annual sports event named Mythri is also held in the month of October, annually.

The fee for a year was around 1 lakh rupees. Although, there was financial assistance by the UP government for the less privileged students by means of scholarships, every year.

Scholarship was provided by UP government to the less privileged students with parental income less than 2 lakh per annum. Education loans were also applied for by many students who were in need of some financial assistance.

The JSS football team has made a name for itself by winning various inter college competitions including the IITs. Other activities include music and arts with a varied band culture and club culture.

The hostel facility was limited to the first few admitted students. Others, including me,had to resort to PGs outside the college campus. Although, I've heard from many of colleagues who did stay in the college hostel that the infrastructure and food was great there.

There is an online portal for an alumni network. Each year, the Alumni Meet is held on the 7th of October.

Even though the first two years may get a tad too hectic for the students with frequent labs,classes and tests, the trend regresses in the 3rd and the 4th year where in you get plenty of time to do other activities as well,be it co-curricular, competitions or fests.

The faculty was quite impressive as far as my experience is concerned. They were all well qualified with many of them with PhDs and years of experience in industry as well as academics. They were always there for us as or what the need be. The teaching standards would gradually be set a level up as you keep on progressing towards the final year(where in the main emphasis is laid upon encouraging the students to get their research papers published or their projects patented).