Great opportunities for learning and your career.

You will hardly hear anything from college management once you get admitted unless you are on the hit list of a few senior professors in general they are cool and do not involve much in the day to day functioning of college.

I took CET-Karnataka in 2003 and secured an AIR of 1248. After, I got my results, I was pretty sure of making into some good courses in the top colleges of Karnataka.I atteneded a centralised counselling in Bangalore and managed to secure a seat in into the ISE department of "The National Institute of Engineering" which as per my liking was the course next best to CSE.

Curriculum was pretty detailed and exhaustive for Information science and Engineering Curriculum is pretty much similar to Computer science. You had an exhaustive list of electives to choose from right from Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning to cloud computing and advanced DBMS.

We had a mix of companies for internship opportunities some of them paid really well while some of them just offered you opportunity to work on real time projects. As far as the list of company goes, there were ANZ, Cisco, National Instruments and a host of top tier companies.

Placement and job opportunities are excellent in general, if you are studying CSE or ISE and you have a descent percentage (70%) of marks at your disposal you can expect to get more than one job offer.

Here are a few events that we celebrated with fervour while we were in college, TechNIEks - A three day cultural extravaganza held every year, teams from all over country participated in this event, ACEFest - For CSE and ISE guys held every yearApart from this we had n number of departmental fests from each department.

It was pretty cheap in comparison to colleges of similar stature and facilities you had to pay college fees once a year (Around 40K) and there were hardly any other kind of fees that we had to pay.

I did not avail of any scholarship, but I remember there were a few classmates of mine who availed of some kind of scholarship from Govt. Of India and Govt. of Karnataka. Loans arealso easily available from all the reputed Banks to finance your education.

Mysore is a relatively cool and calm city so don't expect a lot of happening places around (May be by 2015 it would have improved a lot). As far as your student life is concerned, you can have a fair share of parties and good times with your friends with night rides to chamundi hills on a cloudy day and chill out in a few not so expensive pubs in Mysore.

I stayed in Hostel which had limited accommodation and you had to be really quick in case you wanted a seat in the hostel. Hostel accomodation was relatively cheap and costed around 18K a year including mess charges. As far as food in Mess is concerned, it depends on individual's choice. But, in general if you are a north Indian you won't like it a lot.

Alumni network is pretty exhaustive and supportive you can always find an NIE guy boasting about NIE being alma mater of narayana murthy(Infosys Co-founder) which is indeed true. If you are lucky you can always meet him in one of the alumni meets.

While I was attending college between (2003-2007) NIE fell under VTU (now its autonomus and I assume it to be relatively chilled now). As far as VTU exam structure goes, only the first month of the semester was relatively chilled and the later part of the semester was all about Unit tests, Lab submissions and exams. I would rate it as relatively hectic until you reach final year.

In general computer science department suffers from quality faculty. In my case I would rate the faculty quality as a mix of good professors and not so good professors. A few faculty members were quite good at their subjects but their were also a few who had just finished their M. Tech and joined as Lecturers. As for other departments, I would rate faculty highly as most of them were quite renowned guys in their fields.