DTU college review from the perspective of a student in his last year of graduation

The JAC counselling process was very time-taking. I had reached at 8 am in the morning, and my process got over at 5 pm. But thankfully, the subsequent rounds were online so that was a relief. Admission criteria were based on the ranking in JEE-Mains, and I don't think there was any minimum age criterion. I did not avail any quota for admission.

I got admitted into B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering on the basis of my rank, and it was as per my liking as well. Faculty to student ratio was fairly decent, and it varied from department to department. The senior faculty were highly qualified, while the assistant or associate level faculty were in the process of attaining the doctorates. Exams were held timely and the level of examinations was considered to be quite advanced as per engineering standards, equivalent to IITs. I believe passing the exams was not that difficult but scoring well was very challenging.

There were a lot of internship opportunities available for the coding, software and technical roles, so it was not very challenging to attain a campus internship opportunity for the students pursuing those field. On the other hand, branches like Mechanical, Civil, Electrical saw rare sights in terms of campus internship opportunities available for them, but it could also be due to the COVID scenario prevalent at that time. But to compensate for that, the college provided internal internship opportunities for the students (both paid and non-paid internships), so that was a good initiative.

Placement sessions start in the fourth year of graduation, while the internship placement session starts in the third year. The average package throughout the Btech batch was over INR 12lac per annum, while for my branch (Mechanical), it was over INR 8lacs per annum. Major tech giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon came to the campus, while in the Non-Tech field, the big 3 companies, viz Bain, McKinsey, BCG along with other equally well-reputed companies came for placements as well. Around 70-80% of students who applied for placements got placed.

The fee started from 1.5 lac and was roughly hiked by 10% for the subsequent years. It cost around 7.5 lacs for the 4-year course. Scholarship opportunities were available but most of them were for reserved quotas. Campus placement was good as the packages offered were commendable.

Campus life was very enjoyable, had a really good time. The annual cultural tech fest of DTU is called Engifest, which was conducted in the month of February, while the tech fest was conducted in the month of January. There was also a literature fest called Yuvaan, conducted in January, and a sports fest conducted in the month of March. Library mostly comprised of curriculum books, there was an apparent lack of non-curriculum books like fiction, biographies, etc. College wifi made most of the well-reputed journals available to the students. Sports and extracurricular was a major highlight of DTU as there were a lot of opportunities and facilities available for them. Similarly, DTU had a lot of clubs, societies and tech teams covering majorly every domain. For instance, TedX club, DelTech MUN club, Sports club, Fitness Club, Music Society, Gaming club, etc.