What Students Say
Likes
- Aesthetics of the college campus. There are green trees all over the campus and the buildings are painted well.
- The availability of basic stationary and groceries in and around the campus. There are multiple stationary shops inside the campus and almost all daily groceries are available in shops and small supermarkets near the campus.
- College timings aren't too hectic or exhausting. You have alternating days with morning or afternoon classes and labs only once a week from second year onwards.
Dislikes
- Hygiene is really neglected both in and outside the campus. The roads and lobbies of university buildings are clean but small alleys and areas with less footfall are highly neglected and often stink.
- Teachers aren't very co-operative in terms of doubts, extra curricular help and leniency in marks. They rarely care much if someone is learning in class or not.
- The language barrier is too high here as in majority of the shops the shopkeepers only know Tamil and their English is too broken for normal people in a hurry to understand.
Course Curriculum Overview
Course curriculum is only relevant to placements and not the real world and job environment. Almost half of the subjects aren't even related to the degree we're persuing yet still we have to devote hours for it which leaves us with less time to prepare our CV.
Placement Experience
Placements are above average and are on par with the other private colleges. The median placement is around 7-9 LPA and the average placement is around 14 LPA. The highest package ever was a little above 1 CRPA about two three years ago from EEE department. The placement of EEE and ECE is a little bit above CS.
Fees and Financial Aid
The yearly fees is 4 lakhs. There are scholarships but only for top 100 rankers in the SRMJEE entrance test, and for people with family members in the defense forces. The registration fees for admission are 10000. The fees don't increase for a batch but every year there are some changes in fees for new batches. Fees are different for differnet courses like CSE Core has 450000 fees, some specializations have 350000 per year. There is management quota I think you have to pay extra 2 lakh for it.
Campus Life
Campus life is really good from my perspective. I've got really good friends and they help me in academics as well have a quality time. Classrooms are not that good with charging ports and air conditioning being the highest technological provisions. The wifi is pretty poor during the day due to bandwidth distribution as thousands of people use it. There is almost no scope of sports as it is dominated by the local students and crowd in public sports areas. There are several clubs covering almost every aspect of computer science and engineering with good activity.
Hostel Facilities
Facilities in hostel are just average with tables, air conditioning (if choosen) and toilets and wifi. Mess food is not good at all. It's just above decent in taste but the same mediocre food for months is very jarring. Hostels are not affordable at all with ac hostels being above 2 lakhs per year. There are plenty of societies for renting a flat as well as PG residences.
Admission
I didn't get any other better colleges due to lack of focus in the JEE preparation and SRM isn't too bad in itself either, the campus, faculties, curriculum etc are not very compatible but are okay in general and by working a little bit hard it is easy to get placed in a good company with a good package.
Faculty
Every semester you get 1-2 good faculties that are actually good help for classes and placement related stuff, 1-2 are strict like don't give marks, won't excuse for attendance if needed and would scold at everything. The rest are like NPCs that just come to class, read from a presentation they already made and leave.
Night Life
Nighlife is not much prevalent here as there aren't many things to do neither near the campus nor Chennai city. Hostels are very strict for girls with in time being 7:30pm and 9 pm for boys. Hangout places are Mahindra World City, and the Chennai city. Locality is really unsafe especially for women due to local people.
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