Known for discipline and placements

The overall experience was just crap. The quality of professors needs a hell lot of improvement. The infrastructure both in terms of academic and extracurriculars needs to be improved a lot. Research needs to be encouraged a lot more.

The admission process is Joint entrance exam(IIT-JEE). There is no interview process. We get it through counseling. We list all the courses in all the IITs according to our priority and we get the top most choice that has seats unfilled for our rank. I am interested in engineering in general but I ended up in electrical engineering by pure chance as I said according to my rank. But I enjoy doing it.

The curriculum was outdated. We were not being introduced to the latest trends in technology. We were at least I guess 10 years or more behind in terms of what we were taught. The labs were a joke. They haven't been updated in a long time and the student to equipment ratio was not good. 7 to 8 students has to work on a single piece of equipment. There wasn't exactly a lot of research being done at least by the students. I have no idea about the professors. Even if we were interested in research, there was a lack of equipment. For my own research, all I needed were a solar panel and power electronic converter which were not available or accessible to me. So I ended up with having just simulation results. And I had to attend the conference using my own money to pay the conference fee and travel costs. The university should pay so that the students feel encouraged to pursue research.

There were almost no internships provided by college. A few of the students secured internships by applying on their own. The rest of us had to go to companies like Vizag steel plant and pay a fee to get the mandatory summer internship/training.

Placement scenario was pretty bad in spite of being an iit. In my course, only 45 students got placed out of 108 students. And that too most of us got placed in companies like TCS and IBM for a ctc of around 3.5 lakhs which we really don't expect from an IIT graduate but is the sad reality.

The cultural and technical fests were good although there was a lot of corruption involved. The student government bodies involved used to swindle a lot of the money received as funds for the fest.

It was quite affordable during my time. It was just around 18000 per semester plus mess fee. But now, I believe the fee has been increased and is about 50000 per semester as far as I know. I don't know the amount exactly.

I didn't have any scholarship but the scholarship was offered to OC people only if the income was less than 1 lakh per annum where as the income limit was a lot more relaxed in case of other castes which is not fair. Money is the same for everyone no matter what the caste is. So the income cut off should be the same for all castes.

The facilities weren't really good compared to other IITs but we did have free time to pursue other interests.

I was residing in the hostel. The hostel rooms were decent. We used to stay in double rooms. Not too bad. But the mess food was complete crap. Far from any standards of hygiene or cleanliness whatsoever. Sometimes not even edible. The rice wasn't properly cooked. The roti were really hard to even tear them with hands, so even more hard to chew and eat. The curry was tasteless. Most of the time we used to skip meals in the mess and order outside. In spite of all this, we had to pay 15000 every semester for food. It was mandatory even though we had to order outside most of the time due to the extremely bad quality of food.

There is an yearly fest organised by the college to interact with all the alumni.

That was the one good thing. We didn't have as many exams and quizzes. So it wasn't as stressful. We were pretty relaxed and we had time to pursue our other interests as well.

Apart from 3 or 4 professors, at least in my department, the rest were complete crap. They had no idea what they were doing. Sometimes, they just used to recite stuff straight from the text book instead of teaching us. I never felt that they had any interest in the students. They weren't very cooperative with the students. My head of the department refused to give a recommendation letter to my friend because apparently he had an accident which hurt his leg a few months ago. I am not even sure why or how that's even a reason. The standard of the teaching was very much below par if you ask me. In addition to all this, some of the professors were really egoistic. Right now, I am doing my masters abroad and the difference in the quality of teaching and the standard of professors between here and my bachelor's in India is like night and day.