Title- The NITR experience

The campus is certainly very beautiful. Nestled amongst the hills, NIT Rourkela boasts of a lush green campus, strong student strength of more than 5000 and an overall campus area of about 1024 acres (2nd largest campus in India, behind IIT Kharagpur). The campus is indeed wonderful and the stay here is worth remembering.

Selection procedure for NITR is through JEE Mains. Students need to give JEE Mains and depending on their ranks acquired in it...admission is provided. No separate interviews are conducted.

I chose electronics and communication engineering as my subject. It is a subject which is in quite demand. Electronics demands the student to be quite strong in mathematics and be practical oriented. Students who like physics rather than chemistry will be much more attracted towards it. We had two product development laboratories and a lot of lab courses which are practical oriented.

I personally didn't get an internship on campus but generally companies which come for recruitment drive take students for internship also. I did my internship in IIT Guwahati and it was a nice experience with all their facilities. The average stipend that the students get is 10-15 k per month for a period of two months.

Almost all the students except those who have a lot of backlogs get placed. So around 95% students have a job offer before they pass out from here. Companies recruit according to the branch. Some branches like CSE have very good placement scenario and companies like Microsoft, Amazon, c-dot, GS, Oracle, Qualcomm visit the campus every year whereas some other branch students like metallurgy and mining are more or less placed in analytics company and consultancies like IBM, Accenture, Wipro, TCS, Cognizant. Average package varies according to the branch you are in. For CSE it lies around 12-13 lacs and for the rest it is around 5-6 lacs.

There are many fests being organised in NITR. We have Innovision - the technical fest, Multiethnic festival, NU (Nitrutsav), ISM (International Students Meet) and Celebrity Night among the cultural fests. Fests are organised and planned properly and they are quite big. Celebrities like Sunidhi Chauhan and Sonu Nigam were also invited for the celebrity night.

The fee structure is generally 65-67 k per semester including the mess fee and hostel rent. Students can avail bank loans to pay the fee also.

There are ample opportunities for one to discover and develop oneself in the field of extracurricular activities. More than 70 clubs operate and organise workshops and events in which interested students can take part in. From robotics to painting, automobile designing to dancing, debating to cooking, not to forget singing, the clubs offer a wide range of interests the students can choose from and explore their hobbies more.

NITR has 2 girls hostels, 8 boys hostels and one married hostel for married scholars housing all of its students. It is a completely residential campus. Rooms are allocated on sharing basis, generally double seater rooms are given. Fourth years and post graduation students are given single rooms. Quality of food is quite good.

Exams and daily schedule of NITR is quite hectic.Classes start at as early as 8 in the morning and might continue upto 6:15 in the evening if you end up having an extra class. There are both lab and theory classes to be attended in a day. We have two exams conducted in a semester...mid sem and end sem of 30 and 50 marks each plus internal assessment of 20 marks.So all in all it becomes quite tiring from the student perspective.

Faculty here are very experienced and highly qualified. As for interaction with students, varies from professor to professor. Some of them are very interactive and even know about their students' backgrounds while others may not even know you are in their class.