ITER, SOA: might not be the best out there in Odisha!

Name: ITER, SOA: might not be the best out there in Odisha!
Item: Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University - [SOA]
Rating: 2.9
Author: Rajeev Acharya

2.9

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Faculty

3.5

Placement

3.5

Course

2.5

Campus

2.0

College

2.5

Internship

3.5

Rajeev Acharya

SOA University, B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

Reviewed on May 11, 2024(Enrolled 2021)

What Students Say

Likes

It has a reputation in the market, so that provides a good background to your career education
Exam system is quite student friendly.
There was a time when the placement ratio here was 90%, so i hope this season atleast it may go close to that.

Dislikes

Average infrastructure. The campus is highly saturated. Lots of buildings in a relatively smaller campus. No open spaces/grounds. Infrastructure is below par at this level.
Management is highly unpredictable. Exam notices, notice regarding any holidays come very close to the concerned dates.
Campus life and college events are just miserable. Only classes, assignments and exams, no sign of any cultural events or programs

Course Curriculum Overview

2.5

The curriculum is quite relative to the standard curriculum around such colleges but the real world application oriented knowledge is poor here. The semesters are short, they randomly cover some portion of the books according to their wish, and conduct exams on those concepts. The timings of exams can be very unpredictive. Sometimes the gap between sem start-midsem-endsem might be around 2 months and sometimes the midsem is from 2months from sem start and the endsem is from 20days of midsem.

Class Size: 71Course Fees: INR 940000 per year

Internships Opportunities

3.5

During 3rd years, a few companies will be coming for interships. Getting selected for internships for completely on your skills. Each company on an average takes about 2-3 students. Highradius Corporation took the highest no of students(65) for internship(Both paid and unpaid) this year, providing 3 PPOs of 8LPA.

Placement Experience

3.5

It has had a good reputation regarding placements. However, the placements also highly depend on the current market scenarios. Avg Package: Rs 4LPA Wipro, Cognizant, Deloitte, Accenture, Mediamint are among top recruiters. Infosys,Volvo, L&T and many more such companies also participate in placement drives.

Fees and Financial Aid

Fees is just above market rate. Fees during my admission year was Rs 235000*4, but now has it has had an increament of Rs20000 for the next 2 admission batches. In my batch the schlorship was Rs35000, Rs25000, Rs15000PA ( 90%,80%,70% in 10th and 12th, respectively ). No financial aids or assistance.

Campus Life

Campus life is poor. There are a bunch of clubs but mostly they are self engaged. No college level large scale event takes place. There is annual sports meet, that can be considered the biggest event of the college but that is small compared to other colleges' events.

Admission

As it's a private college, technically everything who has passed 10th,12th can take an admission. Admission process is simple, it has an free examination of its own called SAAT, through which it takes admission. Students can take admission through jee scores. And of course by giving donations!

Faculty

3.5

Faculties can be considered decent. Around 60% of faculties are PhD scholars. Majority of faculties are cooperative, can be reached out to even after class hours. But some teachers can be very mean, but that happens everyone, right! Faculty can be rated above average

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Dislikes

As for me their are no flaws that I can say I dislike in KIIT.

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A journey that will help you learn a lot.

Likes

The infrastructure of each campus in the college is very pretty and it's a green campus
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Dislikes

The crowd of students here is too much which feels too much chaotic and disturbing .
The hostel management here as they don't give importance to the major issues here.
The hostel mess food. The quality is degrading day by day

Placement Experience:

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Md Sheezan Qumar Raza Khan

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Best college in Bhubaneswar

Likes

Beautiful campus with lot's of space and with good computer labs
They conduct exam in very smoothly manner

Dislikes

Need to improve administrative building while submitting fees many students face problem
Lab session of some subjects are too long which is around 3 hrs which need to reduce for atleast 2 hrs

Placement Experience:

Placement opportunities in my college are good, with students generally becoming eligible for campus placements from the pre-final or final year, depending on the course and company criteria. The college has an active placement celll that supports students by Organizing training sessions, resume building and also mock interviews.

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International Institute of Information Technology - [IIIT], Bachelor of Technology [B.Tech] (Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering)

Reviewed on Dec 29, 2025(Enrolled 2025)

Review about IIIT Bhubaneswar

Likes

Have collabs with IBM, Samsung, Capgemini for RnD and NUS singapore , University of North Texas
Our college has hosted International Conferences like IEEE InGAARS 2025and Indocrypt 2025, where scientists had came from NASA, ISRO, all IITs, Foreign Universities, etc
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Dislikes

Few teachers speak in Odia accent, so it takes couple weeks to adjust
Campus is kind of small (36acres), but its good area for a IIIT, considering IIIT delhi is just 25 acres
3 occupancy hostels for 1st years (same goes for any other NIT/IIIT), but they have a option of single rooms from 2nd year

Placement Experience:

from 6th sem, students are eligible almost 100 companies visited including IBM, VISA, Infosys, DE Shaw etc. Highest is 63 LPA and avg is 12-13LPA 90% placements I may consider doing MBA if I dont get very big package

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Likes

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Dislikes

Lab facilities of this university is not good and ordered
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Must of faculty members are belongs to home state

Placement Experience:

From 6th sem of completion eligible to sit in placement called by campus placement in university. Companies like accenture, techmahindra,tech bee,and wipro comes for hiring. Highest package till now is 29 lpa and lowest is 1.5 lpa. Average package is 5lpa. Mostly 80 percentage of students getting placement from campus drive. My plan after getting degree is getting job from campus drive.

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Goutam Dash

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Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology- [IGIT], Bachelor of Technology [B.Tech] (Electrical Engineering)

Reviewed on Dec 1, 2025(Enrolled 2020)

My College Experience

Likes

College Campus , Placement ,Faculties, Lab Avilibility,Library,Digital Library

Placement Experience:

There Are many Placement Offer in This College. The Average salary was 9.8 lpa per Annum . The Student Placed Ratio Was 7:10 In Our College. Some Companies are Excited To Visit This College For Placement Drive .

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Subham Muduli

4.4

Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology- [IGIT], Bachelor of Technology [B.Tech] (Computer Science and Engineering)

Reviewed on Jul 23, 2025(Enrolled 2024)

Excellence IGIT

Placement Experience:

From 7th or 8th sem students are eligible for campus placements. The companies visited are wipro,tcs and many others like this. Percentage require for getting placement is average of 8.75 My plans after getting the degree is secret.

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Gamer

Likes

I liked the cultural activities and various fests.
I liked the college campus and placement.
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Dislikes

I disliked the water supply to the college and hostel.
I disliked the food that serves in the hostel.
I disliked the college placement and management

Placement Experience:

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Reviewed on Mar 1, 2024(Enrolled 2023)

An Unknown Boy

Likes

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Dislikes

The campus is very vast, and you have to walk for every minute of work.
The are very serious about your study and what you are doing
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Placement Experience:

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My Review

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