NIT Patna

College management is generally good but can sometimes be very rigid on certain things which is unpleasant.

The course and curriculum is pretty standard for an engineering college. The course is regularly updated and professors encourage research under them and even independently. It has several clubs which organize workshops and technical seminars for the students to get familiar with professional skills. Industry people have been invited to groom students as well. Industrial visits are taken by the clubs in the campus.

Placement is good compared to NITs. The CSE department sees the highest placements in the college. The common companies are Adobe, Mu Sigma, Sabre, Amazon, Vedanta, Capgemini, Infosys, KPIT, L&T, Oyo, etc (Companies vary a lot every year). They usually have a Presentation round, GD and personal interview. Institute recommends preparation courses for the placement season.

Eccentrica : Interdepartmental cultural fest, once a year in autumn semester. Corona and Melange : This is the intercollege fest consisting of many events under both technical and cultural domains. It has several sub categories like Robotics : for robotics events. Aayam : for architecture specific events. Ohm : for electrical and electronics related events. Concrete : for civil related events, etc. Similarly they have sub events related to Computers, General Science and Mechanical.

There is full transparency in the fee breakdown. Tution fee for parents with income over 5 lac is around 62000. (Fluctuations occur every year). Fee for underprivileged students is 1200 (Fluctuations occur here as well). There is a certain admission fee of 5000 during admissions. Mode of payment is online.

Yes, the eligibility for getting scholarship is parents income being less that 1 lakhs per annum. The scholarship isn't given out as money but as reduction in the fee for the said student.

Campus life is amazing. The campus being small, the students interact with each other a lot. The Student Activity Centre has all the extracurriculars a student can dream of. It has the Dance Club, Music Club, Literary and Arts Club, the Gym. Other technical clubs are IEEE, Robotics Club, ASME, SAE, Backslash, etc. All of these clubs organize events and workshops related to their fields. In sports, Football, Table Tennis, Badminton, Volleyball, Squash, Track events have a court and a coach coming in on weekdays for training. We send teams for InterNIT events too.

Yes, the hostels are great in this college. The rooms are shared with 2-3 people depending on the size of the room. Single rooms are given to PhD students. The mess is okay enough, the food is of quality standards. Regular cleaning is maintained and hygiene is good. Hostel is guarded and there is an entry time of 9:30pm. We pay 15000 per semester for hostel rent and 9000 per semester for mess.

They are extremely helpful. We're mainly connected through LinkedIn and the annual Alumnus Meet that occurs on the campus. The Alumni have valuable inputs according to corporate life and lead you on the right path.

Admission through this college is from JEE Mains. After giving JEE, we had to do our counseling from the CSAB website and choose various courses from the different NITs and GFITs. According to your preferences, you'd get a seat on the college of your choice on the basis of your rank.

In my course, that is, ECE there are at least 25 professors having varied level of specializations. Most of them are PhD holders from various IITs and NITs. They are extremely skilled in their domains and manage to be very consice in explanations of their subjects. Many of them have worked under RnD departments of organisations such as DRDO, etc.