"Engineering at AOT(Academy Of Technology,Hooghly) Good or Bad??"

Entrance Preview- I appeared for the state-level engineering exam i.e, WBJEE(West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination), in which I scored 12000 ranks and had ample choice of colleges in my hand. I choose this particular college because the course I wanted to pursue, i.e, ECE(Electronics & Communication Engineer), is the best in the Academy Of Technology because of its infrastructure and faculty.

Course Curriculum Overview-So, In our college the course I m pursuing, i.e ECE has a pretty much similar curriculum to any other college in India but the thing which made it different is the professors especially the mathematics professor. The syllabus of the college is decided by the MAKAUT board. ECE course has many practicals which are done efficiently in our college, none of the labs is treated as unimportant, The faculties make the student fully Industry prepared so that none of the students gets unemployed which is a major plus point. The course ECE has a total duration of 4years with two-semester in each that is similar to any B.tech Branch. Our final CGPA is counted on basis of the internal, assignments, internships, and projects. Each semester has two internal examinations. Apart from the course syllabus our college also focuses on each student's problem solving, communication, leadership skills. These all things make the student get fully prepared to crack any company interview.

Majorly students from CSE, IT, and ECE get internships through college while the core branches get these things off-campus but yes college provides full assistance especially the faculties guide the students about internships. The most common internship in our college is of TCS as our college has a tie-up with TCS so select the students by taking a small aptitude test. During the internship period, the student gets a stipend of around 5-8k. Many students get a pre-placement offer from the company which is a great thing, especially in TCS. Also, TCS organize the codevita platform through which they select many students and offer them jobs and this thing is quite popular in AOT almost every student is encouraged to learn Programming so that they could crack codevita and secure a good job, which has both pros and cons as the non-cse branch students has to learn programming along with their core subjects. Overall, the college provides ample internship opportunities.

Placements-In AOT, there is a separate committee to brush up the students for placements. The internship starts from the 5th semester and the placement on campus starts at the end of the 7th semester. The student needs to score a minimum of 7CGPA to sit for placements. Many companies visit for the on-campus recruiting some of them are TCS,Wipro, Infosys, Amazon(majorly for sales), IBM and many more.The avg package offered by these companies is around 4-5LPA and the highest goes up to 12-14LPA. Our college doesn't hide any information regarding placement It always gets updated on their website along with the student's name and branches those who get placed which is a good thing and every college should do this. Around 99% CSE , IT and ECE students get placed if not core then in I.T companies but the core branches like mechanical and civil have placement percent of around 75% but it is increasing every year. overall what I have heard from seniors is that placement is quite decent.

Fee Structure- This is the best thing in this college, So the total fee for my 4year B.Tech(ECE) only cost me 324000/-. This fee structure for any other college in Kolkata is quite impossible and this stands out from our college from other colleges. In each semester we need to pay around 42k which is highly affordable apart from it our college provides scholarships for meritious students based on their CGPA, also bank loans are easily available apart from all these there is one best scholarship named Swami Vivekanand Merit-cum-means Scholarship, our college has a tie-up with this government scheme which makes easy for any student having more than 75% in HSC and from West Bengal Board can get a yearly scholarship of 60000rs. The highly affordable fee structure encourages many students to get into our college especially the economically backward class of people which is the best thing. Overall, the college fee structure is feasible and has a great education.

Campus Life- The campus of our college is much big than any other college private college except Amity University in Kolkata. The campus size is 10acres with greenery everywhere, when we enter the college the first thing we notice is a big lake in the middle of the college with trees around it and this increases the beauty of the campus exponentially. Our college also has a library with a varied collection of books anyone in their free time can read them. Apart from studies the faculty members also encourage the students for physical activities for this our college has a basketball ground and also a football ground which is located near the hostel. Our college organizes two fests each year called Arcadia in which many celebrities perform and is quite fun to see them performing live apart from this our college also organizes Tech Fest in which many students show their talent in robotics, machine learning, and A.I. Overall we can enjoy but also need to keep mandatory 75% attendance.