Arshdeep Kaur's Review On Guru Nanak Dev University - [GNDU], Amritsar

After the rank list of JEE came out, I applied for this university through PTU Counselling. But now the procedure is different. Anyone who wants to apply here needs to fill different counselling on gndu.ac.in. Admission process was not so complex.

I think the course syllabus is a bit outdated and it needs to be reviewed. All it contains is the study of the obsolete machines and technology. There is a need to add the latest technology as well. Talking about the labs, most of them have very old equipments and need to be replaced. Only some new equipments are there and so all the students of the group use the same kit for performing experiments.

No such internship is provided specifically by our college. It is only up to the companies to offer internships. Some teachers offer opportunity to work with them or to mentor us. No stipend is given for this purpose.

Our campus has approximately 100% placement record. TCS, Capegemini, Wipro, Software AG, Naggaro, Tech Mahindra, and many more IT companies. Most of them offer a pakage around 3.5 lakh. Some companies of dream slot like Software AG offer high packages from 4 lakh to 10 lakh.

The biggest cultural event of our university is JASHAN that occurs annually in the even semester. In the odd semester our university hosts the Youth Festival of Amritsar area. No technical events are funded by the University. Even Techfest happens once in 5 years. Means techfest is not an annual event as is in most of the colleges of the country. We organise some technical events at our level particularly for our department.

I have not availed any scholarship or loans but these facilities are available for the needy students.

Gender ratio is good. Campus Life is also good but not the best. Obviously it cannot match the life of the IITs. There is a lot of diversity on campus itself. With 52 departments in the university and near about 10,000 people studying, teaching, working in the campus. All are from different areas of punjab. Even some students are also from other states like UP, HP, Bihar, Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan and maybe more.

There are two boys hostels and four girls hostel. The Girls Hostel 1 and 2 have so suffocating and small rooms. It is very difficult to live in these rooms where no space is left after placing two beds and a table. Seriously it is so congested.

The day is not very hectic. The only thing is that we have exams 3 times in a semester. 2 minors and 1 major exam. Minors are of 20 marks each. Then is a assignment or quiz of 10 marks. Finally the major exam is of 50 marks. PASSING MARKS IS 31. We follow CGPA system here. We need to multiply our CGPA by 8.9 in order to get overall percentage.