What Students Say
Likes
- The campus is very beautiful, with greenery on every side. Skywalk is a unique part of the architecture, its an elevated area where students hang out. The infrastructure is all over great too, witb buildings constantly being renovated.
- College life is pretty great, with activities held in freshman year to help students interact and events held year round to help students relax after a long day of classes.
- Certain faculty is good, with teachers willing to help students out separately even and teaching with dedication and consistency.
Dislikes
- The hostel in-time of 8:30 pm. It is very early and even though the campus is safe students are not allowed outside the hostel premises after 8:30. Its seems unnecessary to restrict students without any proper reason.
- The food options within the campus are very limited and hostel mess food is also not good, its good only in certain hostels.
Course Curriculum Overview
Subjects are mostly your branch related but certain subjects feel useless. Branch related subjects are mostly interesting with a lab component and they prove to be relevant in the respective fields. The college tries to improve the curriculum but all of this is mostly focused for computer related branches. The other branches are treated in a secondary way. Exams are held timely, 2 exams each semester, during, March, May, October and January. The teachers teach during lectures but eventually students tend to study on their own only before exams.
Internships Opportunities
The internships begin during 5th semester, but it is only for students who have a good CGPA. After covid the internship opportunities have decreased a lot, but still companies visit the college. Usually for electronics, companies like samsung, texas instruments used to visit the collegem. The college also funds research or practical projects done by students. It helps students build their resume.
Placement Experience
The placements are offered but they have dropped significantly since Covid. Their are still companies who visit but its mainly upto students to maintain their CGPA and work on their resumes. The cutoff for top companies is high and the college itself sets 9 CGPA cutoff for all students. Students are eligible for placements since 3rd year. Companies such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan and chase visit our college. Average packages is 7 to 8 lakh per annum. Around 60 to 70 percent students get placed.
Fees and Financial Aid
The fee structure is around 220000 each semester (6 months) fees. Additionally around 60000 + 25000 for hostel + mess each semester. The fees increases by around 8 to 10 thousands each semester. Their are scholarships for students who perform exceptionally well during the semester exams and get a high CGPA. You can apply for projects for the college but they don't pay much, they do help students build resume.
Campus Life
The college consists of clubs for each field of interest. Such as tech societies, art and photography, sports, literary and many more. Each society hosts events through out the year, providing fun and entertainment to the students. The annual tech fest of thapar is Saturnalia and it is 2 to 3 fun filled days with games, tech events, robot fights, a hackathon and concerts at night by famous singers and bands. The library is also a beautiful piece of infrastructure, with beautiful interiors and a huge collection of course book. The annual sports event is named Urja and it is open to all.
Hostel Facilities
The hostel facilities are okayish, the food is not that good, especially dinner. The cleaning of rooms is not regular and the laundry services allows limited clothes to be washed each time. The in time is also very early, other than that its fine only. The hostel nights are fun and food during those nights is also great. Registration needs to be done before start of semester, shifting each year is another headache, which is mostly compulsory.
Admission
The admission process was pretty straightforward. We had to submit our JEE scorecard and our 12th Marksheet. Based on both of these we are alloted our engineering branches. Branch can be upgraded later on during spot rounds. The cutoff for computer engineering is 95 percentile. All details regarding admissions are available on the website.
Faculty
The teachers are mostly PhD's from renowned colleges like IIT's and NIT's and are experienced in their respective fields. The ratio is one teacher to 90 students during lectures and one teacher to 30 students during Labs and Tutorials. Teachers are mostly helpful and willing to clear doubts even after classes. They can be approached anytime and they send the lecture PPT's separately too. But certain teachers just drone on during classes making it difficult to concentrate.
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