Remarks
My overall experience was great. There’s a LOT for all engg colleges in India to improve on the education aspect. I learnt most of my real engineering knowledge at the place of my internship/job.
Entrance Preview
I qualified through the Common Entrance Test (CET) of Karnataka State. MSRIT ranks among the top 3 in the state. There was a CET Counselling session held, where one gets to pick the college/department depending on one’s rank. That’s how I picked EEE department in this institute (always liked the subject). There was no interview process held.
Course Curriculum Overview
I wasn’t happy with my department at all. My teachers didn’t have industrial exposure, were pedantic, paid attention to theory and marks and grades, and very little practical knowledge was taught. There were exceptions too, of course. There weren’t any research initiatives as such. If any, they were definitely not pursued well. The options for electives were good though (even though most professors were mediocre). I picked Solar and AutoCAD as my electives and I’m currently employed in the domain of renewable. So the existence of those choices helped at least in initiating interest in me.
Internships Opportunities
Again, the internships were mostly in the software sector. Monthly stipend would be around 15-20k. In core departments, it was compulsory to have done internships though. We had credits allotted to it. After my batch, the placement department took up internship-hunting far more seriously. For my internship in TATA Power, I got paid 15k a month in my Final Year.
Placement Experience
I think we (genuinely) had 100% placement. Software placements were GREAT. Core placements were very few, and bad. So the average would depend, actually. Software placements would have an average of 7-8 lakhs PA packages. The overall average would be lower.
College Events
There was one Annual Cultural Fest (Udbhav), Annual Tech Fest (Avishkaar), many department fests, many other clubs having an annual event, one major TEDx Event. TED and Udbhav were pretty big, and very well organized. A lot of festivals were celebrated in college. We had a department for this, called DECA (Dept of Ext-Curricular Activities). Students and teachers were elected to be on DECA and the committee would take care of budgeting and events planned for a year.
Fee Structure And Facilities
It was pretty affordable for my family. I got in through a merit seat, paying a fee of INR 39,000 yearly to the State and approximately INR 10,000 to the college, yearly. This was the best I could have gotten for the socio-economic status of my family (we belong to General Merit, and not categorized as financially backward either).
Fees and Financial Aid
Yes. Mostly for people belonging to categories (SC, ST, OBC, etc). Some scholarships were available also for economically backward families. I never availed any of them, don’t have the best idea of it.
Campus Life
There was no lack of opportunities in any way. Be it debate, drama, music, anything – there was always a club for it. A very happening one. Most department (NOT Electrical) would support the activities. The only problem was funding for international tournaments. Some teams did avail it, but there was never a fair metric of getting it. It was more about who has more influence with the admin.
Hostel Facilities
I was a day scholar. However, I have some idea about the hostels. MSR was a huge township. So there was pretty much everything available: hostels of no sharing, 2-sharing, 3-sharing rooms. There were fancy ones plus cheap ones too. There were dorms as well. Plethora of PGs and food options available. There was something or the other available for everyone, depending on how much they can afford. Not much idea about the hostel food.
Alumni/Alumna
Not too strong as of now. But the college has been making active efforts to improve it.
Exam Structure
The exams and assignments were very frequent and taxing. But that was the culture only in my department ( EEE has this fame for being really hard). Mechanical and Info-science departments were damn chill.
Faculty
Most professors were qualified in terms of knowing the theory. But most were idiots otherwise. The younger professors were more interactive, less knowledgeable. Standard of teaching would begin great in the start of every semester. But the department was always so occupied in conducting 50 surprise tests, 100 assignments, 3 major internals, mid sem, final sem exams, that they ALWAYS missed the point. The focus would all be on “how to clear exams,” over “how to be an actual engineer.”
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