Clarissa's Review On S K Somaiya College, Mumbai

I had heard about the college having esteemed professors and also having flexible college hours, because it would have been easy to take on an internship. Another factor that drew me to this college is that it is closer to the place I live, making it a short-distance to travel and to concentrate on other activities.

Honestly, I am not to impressed with the curriculam or for that matter the academics. As someone getting into the media field having subjects relating to the name of the course would be more relevant. Subjects like in the first year- economics, cultural studies and political studies that have not one bit anything to do regarding the media was included in the academics. I am from the last batch of bmm before the mumbai university changed it to Bammc last year. The course Bammc has vast subjects including visuals and sounds which are very reliable and accurate to media studies than what I had. I had to apply for a separate sound and editing course and a digital marketing course outside college just to learn the basics of marketing and the media industry. I am in TY now and it feels a lot of stress to study complicated theories and to do practical material when the clear basics could have been solved in the earlier years of college. A few faculty members are good at teaching and are well aware of what the current industry is and what the students need. Professors are good with theory matter but for the practical part, it is absolutely pathetic. We had a subject computers and we had to learn editng softwares for our projects in the FY and the professor clearly did not know a lot about it, as she did not have a computer nor editing background and eneded up teaching us photoshop through powerpoint, there was no physical interaction with students while doing so. When I contancted a few of my friends from other colleges they had learnt about 2-3 editing softwares with a proper guidance. The college also provides with outside faculty with more experience but sometimes they tend to miss lectures and then at the end of the academic year try and rush with the portion. Also, when a lot of professors are given feedback from students, it is not taken well and the students tend to get the brunt of it. The college for the bmm course has good professors when it comes to teaching theory material but not so much for practical or interactive subjects professors for subjects like - photography, computer/editing. Also, the subjects like- economics, political science, cultural studies and psychology does not make sense in media studies unless it is related to the media which it clearly wasn't.

There is a placement committee that conducts interviews and prepares the student for the interviews with companies. Sk somiaya also has a placement fest, where various companies are invited and students are given a chance to interact with them.

I wasn't really involved with a lot of activites within college, so I can't speak much if it. But there are some informative, educative and fun activitives, clubs, events and fests in the college. Mediatheque is the bmm annual fest of sk somaiya and also the students are involved in going to different college for their bmm fests for competitive activities.