My bittersweet university

The curriculum is relevant for the current day technology industry requirements. They teach in a interactive way making us take part in seminar and develop mini projects for internal marks. In the lab sessions for particular courses we learn and execute practically. Overall it's helpful and prepares us for real life applications if we also put in the work. The mid term exam(2 subject exam are conducted on the same day) is conducted after 2 months from the start of the semester and end term exam after 2 months of the mid term, with end term being fairly difficult.

The students in 4th year (from 7th semester) are eligible for placements. College offers placements and a number of companies conduct recruitment activities in the university. From Accenture, rtcamp, SOTI to Capgemini, etc...multiple tech companies conducted online recruitment process. Highest being 7-8lpa as of now and lowest is 4lpa package (I'm in 7th sem) . The eligibility criteria is 6.5+ cgpa with no backlogs so 70 - 80 % of the students are eligible. A few will get placed successfully. College also offers foreign intership opportunities.

My fees is 2,25,000 per year for management seat and my batch mates fees is 1,45,000 for CET management seat. There are no other fees for lab or such. But for transportation I pay 49k per year, distance being 28kms. No financial aid and/or scholarships offered by the college management. The eligible students are told to apply for the SSP scholarship which pays a max of 18k. I applied, but did not receive the scholarship.

University conducts a Fest and ethnic day every year. And there are different Student run clubs like dance, music, nss, rotaract, litrature, fashion etc. The uni also has a good basketball, badminton, volleyball court and a cricket playground. There are inter college sports competitions aw well. There is a gym area and an indoor gaming area with games like chess, carrom and table tennis. There are 2 libraries one for engineering and another for management. There is a vast variety of study materials available along with other genre resources like fictional books and journals too.

I joined the first college I went to! I wasn't planning on pursuing engineering, and I actually went to Presidency University looking for a bba course. But there I was convinced to take up engineering by the marketing personnel as it was and is popular and in scope. So I joined there immediately because I was also at that time impressed by the college infrastructure and the placement offers AND it was a popular and slightly reputed university among my colleagues. So I did not apply to any other colleges or even try to. In the admission process I submitted all th original documents necessary and paid a partial sum of my fees and registered.

There is 1:50 faculty-to-student ration in my section. And that's the max it goes. Most of the faculties are very educated and know what they are doing when it comes to teaching, if the students pay attention then learning will be easy...the faculties are approachable and try to solve any issues. But some professors are not keen on teaching well and they lack the ability to help students. There are 2 exams - Mid term (50 marks) and End term (100 marks) CA(continuous assessment) carries 50 marks which contains quizes, tests, seminars and lab record marks. Overall 200 marks is the total for a course.