What Students Say
Likes
- The infrastructure is of world class and constantly evolve.
- The faculties are friendly and if you are willing to interact and learn from them, all of them are mostly available to help you anytime.
- The diversity in campus is quite great, there are people from almost all parts of INDIA which makes you learn about different cultures and make you comfortable with all the culture. UNITY IN DIVERSITY.
Dislikes
- For few people, the academics might be hectic as there are exams going on throughout the semester. And you have to study constantly to get decent grades
- The connectivity to main city especially at night time is not very good.
- The food outlets available at campus are not sufficient and can be more for sure.
Course Curriculum Overview
One of the best thing about BITS is its curriculum, the curriculum is too good. Courses are finely structured and syllabus is modified constantly according to current world's need. Also, as mentioned earlier about PRACTICE SCHOOL it is one of the best thing to exist which also connects you with industry and helps you in learning from real industry experts. Exams are conducted at regular and are of moderate to difficult level, since relative grading is followed here the difficulty can vary depending on the course.
Placement Experience
The placements of BITS are well known CSE having the highest package. Median package can be anything near 20lakhs. Also many students gets PPO from PS-2. Also apart from the IT domain many opportunities are available in all the field. Comapanies like Google, Microsoft,Amazon, Adobe, Goldman Sachs, Etc. visit the campus regularly. From 4th year 1st semester single degree students become eligible for placements.
Fees and Financial Aid
The fee structure is clearly available on the website which many feel is on the higher side. You can apply for various scholarship like Merit, Student Aid Fund and Merit-cum-need scholarships which are available to almost 30% students of the batch. The amount of Scholarsip can vary from 25% of the tuition fees to 100% of tuition fees. Also you can take the role of Teaching Assistant which can make you earn about 12-15,0000 per semester.
Campus Life
There are three fests conducted- technical, sports and cultural. All the three fests are quite popular and there are very good DJ nights, concerts, comedy nughts, etc. during those time. Library is well equipped with a lot of resources lots of journal,e-journals, etc. are accessible to students. The lectures in classroom are recorded which helps mostly all the students before exam times. The club, sports and extra-curricular culture in campus is top notch.
Hostel Facilities
The hostel facility is good as it is compulsory to take accomodation . The meals are much better than most of the other hostels mess. You are provided with breakfast, lunch,snacks and dinner in mess. The hostel and mess fees cumulatively costs about 1 lakh a year,
Admission
The exam conducted for admission to BITS is BITSAT and you should get the decent enough marks above cutoff in order to get the admission. They don't publish your rank it is purely on the basis of one's score. There are 2 sessions conducted for which the application fees is 5400 amd after both session gets over. There are about 7 iterations conducted and in every round admission letters are issued. The cutoff is not officially published until all the iterations finish, this thing can be improved.
Faculty
The faculty to student ratio is quite good. Most of the facyulty members are always there to help students. All of them have lots of research going on and you can easily work with them in their research if you show enough interest to them. And mostly all of them loves to interact and teach with enthusiasm. There can be few professors which might not be liked by many but there are very few.
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