Prasanna Shah's Review On National Institute Of Technology - [NIT], Raipur

The college is very good, Like I said earlier you will Learn, Live and enjoy. The chances are you'll get placed or end up with a good GATE/CAT/GRE score. And at Last you'll remember NIT Raipur and its people for lifetime.

I took AIEEE for entering NIT Raipur, I scored 28668 AIR. I opted NIT Raipur since it was my home town but not only that, NIT Raipur is bigger than that,it has good academics and it has produced great Alumni who are successful in their fields.

The course curriculum is good, it gets updated with the current technology and there is a good focus on practical work.The mechanical branch of the institute is the best, at par with the best NITs of the country. The course curriculum is designed in such a way that it gets easy getting the placements in the TOP MNCs.

The college itself doesn't provide internship but yes it gives you a period or vacation for pursuing internship in other companies or IITs/NITs. This internship or vocational training is compulsory and is included in the curriculum, so one must go for internship in other companies/college or he must attend vocational course for industry exposure.

The placement of the institute is very good. Around 30-40 companies visit campus every year for campus recruitment. The placement percentage is also very good, around 70-80%. Most companies are software based which includes OFSS, HP, Polaris, Infosys, cognizant which are mass recruiters. Also there are some companies which offer high package around 10 LPA like YODLEE, PSUs also visit which offers above 10 LPA like coal India. So the average package is 4-5 LPA.

There's almost every time some event is going on in the college which is one of the best and interesting thing of the college. There's technical, cultural and literary committee for this in the college and they organize fun and educational events. For ex. ECLECTICA is the annual cultural fest of NIT Raipur which is very big and students from various colleges from CG and other states come to participate in this. Also there's tech fest AAVARTAN which is organised every year in which Robotics, coding and various events are included.

Yes, the scholarship is definitely provided. Actually for SC/ST/OBC candidates government gives scholarship by which they are almost free of paying any tuition fees. Also there's a departmental scholarship provided to scholarly students. And there's OPJEMS scholarship in which first they take online exam and then interview and based on that they give scholarship of around 80000 INR.

Campus life anywhere is always good Gender ratio is good around 6:4, while branches like mechanical, mining, metallurgy is male dominant branch. Being an institute of national importance students from all over the country takes admission here, so we can find peoples of various culture here we have various cultural, technical and sports fests being organised regularly.

Being a day scholar, i didn't reside at hostel, but yes, I frequently visited the hostel to meet friends and I also spent few nights at hostel. Hostel life is awesome. During my 3rd year only new Boys hostel was inaugurated which is very good. The thing about staying in hostel is you make friends for life. you interact with people a lot. Also food is above average in normal days, hygienic.On Sundays we get special meals which is very delicious.

The alumni network of the college is very good. The keep on organizing various various alumni meet and functions which involves interacting with senior colleagues.There is already a group: "Alumni Association of GEC-NIT Raipur" which looks into it and make sure juniors are benefited from this.

Exam structure is also very good. Its not hectic , yes but it makes sure student is not left idle so it continues to take tests on frequent basis. We have 2 CTs(Class Test) per semester, some assignments, Lab(practicals) test and then final End Sem Exam. There's appropriate weightage to all these and end result is calculated based on overall tests and exams.

The faculty of the college is good, but then again there are some faculties who are top class, well qualified and very interested in teaching but there are always some who are uninterested and their knowledge is questionable still, you will enjoy learning from faculties here.