Master's in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University

To apply for a Master's in Jawaharlal Nehru University, you have to be a graduate from any recognisable University with a minimum of 55%. The admission process could have been a bit more organised in the sense that they could give us proper dates for result announcement.

I have taken up Linguistics as my course, Linguistics is the scientific study of language, where we get to explore the similarities and differences between world languages, and try to find out the endangered and extinct languages of the world, we then try to revive the extinct languages and try hard to preserve the endangered ones. It's an interesting subject because it tells you how important and unique every language is. We have 6 faculty members in our department right now, 6 more to be recruited this year, whereas we are almost 80students including both 1st and 2nd years. For now we have limited choices to choose among professors, but hopefully we'll get more recruits later this year Faculty members are well qualified, they are PhD holder. Some of them also have very well reputations in their fields. I have only had my 1st semester till now, the exam happened 2 months before its due time since our course is running late because of COVID 19 pandemic.

There is no campus placement in my course and department. But the professors do recommend us to get internships from Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore where one can easily earn 800 per day. These internships help in gaining knowledge about different languages and as a stepping stone for higher studies like MPhil and PhDs.

The fee structure according to me is very affordable for a normal citizen. I had to pay an amount of 268 for the admission and for the second semester 108 as the semester fee. There was a talk of fee hike in the last few years but the students of JNU went on a mass protest to stop the fee hike. A scholarship named MCM is available for EWS students, in which if the students' parents earn less than 2.5lacs per annum then the student is eligible for the scholarship. Through this scholarship the student get 2000 per month. None other scholarships or financial assistance available for students except for PWD students

I don't think there is any annual fest & tech fest in the campus but many cultural functions happen by different political organisations, for example Bengali New Year, Kerala Day, Utkal Divas, Ambedkar Jayanti, Gandhi Jayanti etc in their respective months. All sort of books and journals are available in the library. JNU library is one of the biggest libraries of this country, it's a 8 storey building with reading rooms attached to it. There are different sections in the library for different subjects. Classrooms are well equipped smart classrooms, some of them have ACs as well if not all, there are projectors, whiteboards and podiums for the professors. There is a stadium in the campus, and coaches available as well. There are badminton courts and basketball courts all around the campus, and if you need to play any particular game you can always go to the stadium and play. There are many social groups available in the campus and online, Jnu roundtable, jnu updates are 2 of them

The rooms are well equipped with everything that a student needs, for masters students, it's a 2 seater room. Equipped with 2 wardrobes, 2 study tables, 2 chairs, 2 beds and a balcony, students can decorate the rooms as per their need, students can also keep coolers for summer or heaters for winter. The meal quality is really good, we get nonveg thrice a month it includes, chicken biryani once, chicken curry, fish/egg once, in veg there's paneer and seasonal vegetables, for breakfast there is bread, butter, jam, poha, dosa, idli, chhole bhature, etc. There's a system of special dinner, which happens at the end of every month. For the security deposit of hostel, you pay a ?6000 which is refundable when your course gets over. You can take rented rooms or PGs outside, they are almost 2 kms away, and a monthly rent varies from 5k to 10k for students.