A Bitter Sweet Experience In SXUK

The curriculum of our course BA Psychology (hons) is really helpful for me as it's concepts give and syllabus give good perspective of psychology. For psychology it really prepares us well for the real world application by its well versed teaching methods and concepts and also by making us gain practical knowledge by conducting practicals. For me the areas of improvement could be it emphasize on more practical concepts than theory concepts. We get adequate amount of time for our exams to prepare and the difficulty level of the course for me is medium.

For our 3 year course in ug level there was no internship opportunities provided but for pg level there is a compulsory internship program which is conducted. But in the upcoming years which is the 4 year degree course there is a compulsory internship program.

From semester 5 the students are eligible for campus placements. The companies like Deloitte, PWC, KPMG, EY, HDFC Bank, IDFC First Bank, Axis Bank, Dabur,Godrej, Britannia, ABP, Reliance, Wipro, Flipkart and many more visit for placements in the campus. Post-graduate students are undergoing rigorous Internship with some of the leading organisation like, Balmer Lawrie, Tractors India Limited, State Bank of India, United Bank of India, Press Trust of India, Friends 91.9 FM, The Times of India, Coal India Limited, Tata Hospital, Hope Foundation etc. I will not be pursuing my line in corporate rather than on the path to be a clinical psychologist

In BA psychology hons for four year degree course the total fees per semester is ?58,000 which includes ?46,500 tution fees, 7,000 development fee , ?2,400 examination fee, ?1,200 library fee and ?900 sports & students' activities fee which totals down to ?58,000. For B.com (hons), B.M.S (hons) BA English (hons), B.A Economics (hons) it's the same fees as BA Psychology (hons). And for BA Mass Comm (hons) is ?66,700. For scholarship the Loyola scholarship is for all ug & pg courses except MBA from 2nd Semester onwards with an annual family income limit of ?3,60,000 minimum marks required is 60% and minimum attendance required is 75% total waiver granted is 100%. The second one is Britto scholarship for an annual family income limit of 4,20,000 all the other criterias are the same except total waiver granted is 50%. The third one is Rupa scholarship for pg students for families with income of 3,60,000 and the waiver granted is 100%.

The fests that are held in our college which is the Xavrang and Xavkala in december and march respectively. Our library has a wide range of books and journals available for the students and they can also sit there and study during there free time with computers with internet access. Our classrooms have both black board and white board which projector in it. The sports and extracurricular in our college is very well versed each year many inter college fests and tournaments are held here. There are many clubs and societies in our college. Students can join there whatever interest they pursue or hobbies they have.

I got selected in 2 colleges which is Sister Nivedita University and Shri Shikshayatan College I didn't get into these two colleges because I'm not the much interested in sociology , psychology was the main criteria for me to major in and also the second college was really far from my home. I also applied to Gokhale, Bethune and Loretto college but didn't really get there because of the marks eligibility. The admission process of my college is pretty simple we just had to fill up our forms and wait for the selection lists. For ug level there is no admission test but for pg admission test is required to get in there. The cut off for ug level is 60% and above in boards examination.

The faculty in my department which is the psychology department are really friendly and approachable. Not everyone but most of them are like this. Dr. Soma Pramanik, Dr. jhilly Das (Tewary), Dr. Moumita Mukherjee are the best faculties according to me in this department because they are very empathetic, friendly and approachable and they also teach concepts very clearly. I didn't like Dr. Anurupa Kundu as I find her not that approachable and also I had a hard time getting used to her teaching. There are 2 exams taken the first one is the Continuous Internal Assessment which is of 30 marks which is scaled down to 10 marks and the other one is the end semester examinations which is of 80 marks the other 20 marks basically consists of presentations and class discipline. Not many students fail to clear the exams atleast from my department. Our course which is BA Psychology is really relevant in the university.