BAU - Opportunity for Growth

Agriculture / Horticulture is totslly practical approach course. These courses demand are increasing day by day specially in themes and initiative taken by government related to organic farming, sustainable agriculture, climate resilence agriculture and commercial agriculture. For these moslty Agriculture / Horticulture graduates are required a lot. This course teaches you about the ground level management of crops at farmers level. There is going to be lot of opportunites created in this field in coming future. Exams are held regulary in this course semester wise. With daily study you can pass easily in exams.

When you come in 7th semester then you are required to an intership. Mainly students go to any diary company like Sudha milk, FPOs and FPCs and NGO's. Mostly they don't provide stipend but if they do then its around 5000 per month. Task to do in internship is mostly like giving crop advisory to farmers, preparing crop documents for farmers and some times desk jobs like working on excel.

Students after coming in 7th semester, they start finding job opportunities. Placement of BAU is not that good. NGOs like Pradaan offer jobs as well as banks like IDBI also come for placement. Their package is around 3 Lakh to 5 Lakh per annum. Students getting placed is also very less. Its around 20% of the batch. Most students prefer higher studies for better opportunities and package. You can pursue M.Sc or MBA after graduation for better opportunities.

As BAU is state government runed university so fee structure is also very nominal here. Per semester fee is around 3500 and per year around 7000. In this fees your hostel charge is included as well. Whole course fees would be around 30,000 for 4 years. You can avail for E-kalyan scholarship if you come under reserve category.

Overall campus life is good. In every 3-4 months some programs are held in university like Independece Day, Republic Day, Foundation Day, Christmas gathering, Kisan Mela etc. Kisan mela is generally held in Feburary every year. Its a 3 day event. Library facility is also avaialble for students. All types of books related to course is available for students. Most of the classrooms are now converted to smart classrooms with intallments of smart boards. Many extracurricular activities like Speech, extempore, essay competitons are held. Annual sports event is also held every year.

At the time of admission you are provided with your hostel accomodation if you wish to stay in hostel. Hostel fees is included in your semester fees which 1000 per semester. Regarding mess, private mess facility is available in hostel. Its fees is 3000 per month. Meal quality is normal. If you wish to stay in rented room or PG then you can find it in near by colonies of the BAU campus.

To take admisson in BAU university, JCECEB takes exams every year around may - june. You need to qualify the exam with rank under 300 to gain college under BAU. Syllabus of exam 11 and 12 PCM / PCB. Application fees is around 1000. Exam is not that much difficult. With good preparation you can qualify it. There is nothing like cut off. Everyone gets ranking in this exam but gain admission under BAU colleges you need to be under 300 rank. Councelling process is very slow. It should be improved.

The faculty and teachers are very good and highly educated in BAU. All teachers are prfessors cum scientists. Their level of teaching is very good. They make understand topics in good manner. There is no difficulty in apporoaching and interacting with teachers there. They are always ready to guide you.