College that helped me to shape my future

When I was a student of this college, this was under Visvesvaraya Technological University. I personally feel that the curriculum offered by VTU and the textbooks prescribed by them was better than the current autonomous syllabus. Nowadays, there are many new autonomous colleges that have come up which are better than NIE in terms of syllabus, infrastructure offered, faculties and campus placements as well.

I wrote Common Entrance Test conducted at the state level and i was ranked 1144. I chose National Institute of Engineering because of its sheer reputation. I is ranked one of best 50 colleges across India.

First two semester of Engineering contains basic subjects like Physics, Chemistry, Basic Electrical, Basic Electronics. This helps the student to get the basic understanding of all necessary subjects that are required for a student to make his/her foundation strong. In the final year, there will be a project where the candidates should work as a team(min of 2). At the end of 8th semester, the candidate is supposed to submit the detailed report.

No. My college does not provide internship directly. However, as part of campus recruitment that happens in 6th semester, students are provided opportunity to work in companies like Intel, Cisco, Philips etc.

During my college days, there was 100% placements in my branch. companies like Intel, cisco, philips, netapp, IBM, Hp, Thoughtworks came for recruiting us. Our starting salary was 3.25 Lakhs and there were some companies that offered us around 10 Lakhs as well.

There was a lot of coding competitions, cultural fests, sporting events (both at college level and at University level as well). Students participated in all the above mentioned activities and the TA/DA given to the participants was sufficient. There are many students from my college who has represented Nationals in various sporting activities like shuttle, cricket, chess.

When i joined Bachelors degree in 2006, fees was quite reasonable. For free seat (government seat) it was around 16000/-. For payment seat, the fees was around (86000/-). On top of it, college used to charge library fee, uniform fee, sports fee and miscellaneous which amounted to around 5000/- per year.

Unfortunately our college does not provide any loan facility nor scholarship(s) for students directly. But the best part is, if you get a seat in my college, irrespective of branch you will be getting the loan for all banks that will come in your mind.

Gender ratio varies with respect to branches. If one is planning to study in core branches like Mechanical, Electrical or civil, the majority will be boys(around 85%). When we consider computer science, Information science and Electronics & Communication it will be almost 50-50.

Our hostels are old buildings and students who come from a different place would not like to stay in hostels. Food is also average in terms of quality that is provided. Hostel fees comes up to 4000/- including food and it will be on twin sharing basis. If you want to have enough food, please make sure that you are in line within 8 PM. Same is applicable for morning breakfast as well.

There's no such official alumni network that is being maintained as of now. But if you meet any seniors who have passed out from NIE, they will be ready to help you out in case of guiding you for shaping your career.

As per VTU guidelines there were 3 internals held in a semester. Average of best 2 was taken into account. Every week we had to attend labs and write records and findings which was a bit tiring activities. One main drawback was that there was a set of pre-defined set of programs that we had to execute in our entire semester. This actually limited our scope of learning.

Based on my CET results and my 12th marks, I got direct admission (government seat). Admission process was pretty straight forward. It happens based on the rank that one has secured. This entire admission process happens in CET cell in Bangalore where the candidate needs to fill up the form containing his/her personal details like name, DOB etc. Once all the personal details are filled, he/she needs to enter the preferences. Based on the preferences and availability the candidate will be awarded

My college was known for experienced faculties who had in depth understanding and expertise on their subjects. Unfortunately, in recent times, this quality is decreasing as the subjects (that needs great level of understanding) are thought by new faculties.