Faculty of Forestry SKUAST-K (benehama)

The forestry course itself is a unique course as it involves a major part that includes the practical stuff. The practicals aspect of this course attracts a lot of nature enthusiasts students. The curriculum helps a student for a a variety of tasks if he or she is from agricultural background. This curriculum should have some more importance to the upcoming technology such as AI. We have two exams and two classroom quizzes for each semester after every three months we have either end term or our mid terms.

Our college provides the internship during which we have department attachments for a complete semester. During this internship we even get a stipend of 21000 for each student. We have projects such as village surveys, industrial surveys etc.

The fee structure of the batch 2020 is very much genuine but ther has been an increment for the upcoming batches which i think should not have been. For batch 2020 the complete cost including hostel and other expenses is around 170000 for 4 years. Our university has recently started providing monthly scholarship to the master's students. Also the 5 topper ug students from each batch get the merit scholarship for every academic year. The only field our university is lacking is campus employment, our college does not have any placement drives.

Our campus life is very much nature oriented as our campus has a major part including natural structures rather than artificial structures. Usually the campus is closed during any festival. But we celebrate freshers party and farewell parties every year for the coming and the leaving batches respectively. Our library has a lot of books related to the course, it also has dissertations and theises submitted by the students. The classrooms have technologies such as projectors and smart boards. For the sports, we have a sports week every year during which the students participate for various sports such as cricket, badminton and volleyball. We have our students council which has a president which is elected by all the students every two years. This council is used to represent the students of the faculty.

Hostel facilities are average but the rooms are well structured A room is designed for two students, in a room we get two beds, two wardrobes, mattings, balcony, study table and study lights. Mess menu is designed by the students itself and the quality is pretty much good. Registration of the hostel is done during the semester registration itself. The hostels are very affordable. I have not rented a pg

The admission process is very easy! A student must have cleared 10+2 with science stream Admission process is completely online and the university advertises the admission notification during the admissions. There is reservation for various categories such as SC, ST, EWS, CDP. Entrance exams are every year during the month of may and the difficultly level is completely similar to other entrance exam like NEET-UG. The entrance exam should have negative markings. Which can improve the level of examination.

The number of faculty members is a bit less than the number required to run the academics properly, due to this a single member has to teach Multiple courses during a single semester. The available faculty members are very much qualified and provide us the required knowledge through various methods like practicals and on field experiences. We interact with our faculty members on daily basis, we interact during a lecture, during a visit or during a practical, the members respond positively.