NIT Rourkela on your platter

Pros:1. NIRF Ranking is superb for NIT Rourkela. 2017 was the first year NIRF rankings were out for India and NIT Rourkela ranked amongst the best engineering college in India2. Huge and attractive campus.These were the two primary reasons to join NIT Rourkela.Other than this, the placement is also amongst the best one can expect.Cons:1. The teaching staff is not up to the mark as one would expect. But the club culture and environment that the institute and its people provide help students excel nevertheless.

Course Curriculum1. Course curriculum is one of the most updated curriculum on would find for colleges in India. 2. Curriculum is revised once every two years with introduction of new courses.3. Courses are also restructured to keep up with the industry demands.4. Every theory course has a practical course running in parallel. This provides a complete outlook and coverage of the course.Academics:1. Academics is rigorous2. 4-5 Theory courses + 3 practical courses each semester3. 85% attendance is mandatory or else student will face gradeback. 4. 2 semesters per year.5. Two examinations mid semester and end semester each year. With 30% and 50% weightage in final grade calculation. 20% is for internal teacher's assessment.6. Semester papers are difficult but depends on your preparation. If you focus on class and cover syllabus and practice previous year papers you can easily score more than 85%.7. Pass percentage is more than 35%Faculties:1. Faculties are ok.2. Some are two good and some are just lame.3. Don't expect too much on this front.4. Faculties will have great qualifications with PhDs from renowned institutions and will also have commendable research profile but it boils down to the fact that not every person with a prestigious PhD can teach.Student faculty ratio in CSE department is around 25 faculty for around 600 students.600 students includes Bachelor students of all years + masters students of various disciplines and PhD students as well

Internship is compulary after 3rd year.Companoies which come for placements also offer internships with stipendsStudents also opt for offcampus reseach internships in india and abroad as well as in corporate through referal and linkedin or through company portal directly.My Internships:1. IIT Bombay: Applied on their portal myself (2nd year)2. One Plus India: On campus opportunity (3rd year)

The placement is close to 100% in each departmenthighest salary offered have been 45 lpaCompanis like Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe, SAP Labs, Udaan, Barclays, Exxon Mobile and 300 more come to hire every yearPlacement season rum throughout the year unlike IITs where placement season is in DecemberAverage package varies by departmentfor CSE its around 15 lpaon Avg it will be around 12 lpaHigher education is also taken up by students with more thatn 50 students having foreign admits for MS every year. Further MBA in IIMs are also common. Foreign internships through MITACS and DAAD are also common.

Fee structure is as follows:1. Course fees: 67000/- per semester2. Mess fees: 18000/- per semester3. Hostel Fees: 5000/- per semester4. Medical Fees: 2000/- per semester5. Other fees: 5000/- per semesterFees comes to around 97000/- per semesterDuring first semester there will be some additional admission fees. So the fees would boil down to 800000 for the period of 4 years.Students from ST and ST categories do not have to pay the course fee of 67000/-. Hence it boils down to 30000/- semester.For OBC students 50% waiver is available on Course fees.A variety of other national and state level scholarships are available which anyone can find out from the national scholarship portal.Some scholarships are also sponsored by the alumni of the institutions.If student need education loan they can apply through the SBI Branch at the institute. They have made the process simpler and is a guarantee free loan.Student jobs on campus are not available. But some students go outside the institute for some kind of teaching jobs but that too is rare. Further the institute tends to change is policies for students going outside campus, hence such jobs are risky to undertake.

Campus life is preety awesome. There always some or the other activities happening throughout the campus.There are 4 scocieties:1. Sports Society2. Technological Society3. Cultural Society4. Literary SocietyWith more than 60 clubs functioning across the year from dramatics to debate, from sports to dance and music and from web development to security and what not.The best of them is:1. Monday Morning: The e newsletter run by students2. Institute Counselling Services and Student Mentorship ProgramThe annual fests include the following:1. Innovision: Annual technical fest of NIT Rourkela2. NITRUtsav: Annual Cultural fest of NIT Rourkela3. Vriddhi: Annual Sports fest4. Cosmopolital: Annual multiethnic festOther than these there are TechX and Innovation Carnival which are technical talks and Startup carnivals respectively.Apart from these some branches like Chemical, Metalurgical, Mining and Ceramic do orgsanise their branch fest once in a while.Library is pretty big with almost every book you would need.Class rooms equipped with projectors and whiteboards, greenboards and blackboards.The newly innaugrated lecture Annexure 2 is equipped with state of art audio visual and digial classsroom facility with every equipment you can possibly imagine you would need for teaching and learning experience.There AN Khosla center for technology enables learning for creation of MOOC courses as well.For Sports:1. PT Usha Sports center for lawn tennis, basket ball, volleyball, kabaddi, swinning pool and gymnasium2. Dilip Tikrey Stadium for field hockey and football3. Sachin Tendulkar Sports Complex for Cricket

There are a total of 11 hostels in the campus with combined capacity of around 10000 students.For Boys1. GDB and MV are for first year students and is served by a combined RN Patel Cafeteria which is the mess.Students are allotted double room for first year in these hostel2. There's MSS, DBA, HB, SD, VS for students in second year onwards and is served by their own separate messes.Boys are allotted single rooms from 3rd year onwardsFor girls there are CVR and KMS For Married couple there are two separate hostels which offer 1 BHK and 2 BHK flats.Mess food is pretty good with non veg being served 6 time in a week.Further there are a number of food outlets like Dosa Plaza, Hexagon, Rengol and Calorie Canteen.Each hostel has its own day and night canteen along with juice centers and stationary.Hostel accommodation is compulsory for student at NIT Rourkela. Even if a student is from Rourkela itself he / she has to take hostel accommodation.

For Bachelor admission the process is pretty simple:1. Appear for JEE Mains2. Apply on JOSAA based on your ranking3. If you get NIT Rourkela go for counselling and then admission