What Students Say
Likes
- You get to learn a lot, not just the academics, but they provide you with lot of extracurricular activities.
Dislikes
- The college hours becomes really sometimes, you get to stay from 9-6 in college for presentations, lectures etc.
- The balance between co curricular and curricular is not maintained, lectures get frequently cancelled due to one or the other activity.
Course Curriculum Overview
The course curriculum for each semester provides you with varied subjects of all the fields of biotechnology, each semester you get a number of choices to opt for elective subjects and if you go with the same track in all the semesters you can get a specialization in that particular field along with your masters degree. The curriculum involves various academic events which includes RIDE, this helps you to interact with various succesful people from all over india. There are two exams scheduled every semester, mid term and end terms which are going to test to understanding of the course.
Internships Opportunities
Companies like medline, greenaraay, synergen , NCCS pune etc. offers internships to students, but the stipend is unknown to me as I'll be getting the interships from the next semester. There is a mini project in the third semester and a dissertation in the fourth semester.
Placement Experience
From the second year students are eligible for placements. There are various companies like serum institute, but it has a major drawback that it only give placements to the male candidates, sun pharma, marketandmarket, future market insights, medline, lupin etc. which procide placement opporunities to students each year. In the batch 2022-2024, most of the students in a class of about 40 students got the placements. If no placement is offered, one can go into the reasearch field.
Fees and Financial Aid
The total fee of the course is 2,60,000. There are scholarships for students who get above 90 in the entrance test. Otherwise, there are no such scholarships for the students, even if they hav meritorious marks or any achievements.
Campus Life
There are various fests, which are being organised very frequently like AAROHAN it is a completely cultural fest, RIDE was an event focusing on the research, innovation, development and entrepreneurshi. MIT organizes a hackathon every year with various tracks for the students to showcase their talents, represent their problem solving skills. Classrooms have smart boards and the learning is completely digital. Sports tournaments are organised throughout the year in a inter departmental level.
Admission
An undergraduate degree in biotechnology or its allied fields is required with 55% marks for general category students. Application form, dates and fees will be available on the official website of mitwpu. The questions asked in the entrance had intermediate difficulty level. You have to fill an application before the last date and pay the fee, for me it was around 1500. there was a computer based MCQ test and a personal interview round. After that you will receive a email notification regarding your marks. There were three admission rounds in total, I got selected in the second one.
Interview Experience
Yes, there was a computer based Mcq test which included 50% portion for biology, 25% for logical reasoning and 25% for english. After that was a personal interview round of about 10 minutes, which was all about your extra curricular activites, your achivevements, recent advances in your field and the previous internships you have done. You cannot prepare for these rounds in a night or two, it was test of your knowledge from the beginning till now.
Comments