IIT Bombay Review by a Fresher

Civil Engineering is a very renowned course and doing it from one of the top institutes in India makes it very good. My interest in high-rise buildings, sea bridges etc influenced me to choose this course. The curriculum prepares us for real-world applications very well. You can also opt for some specialization after doing this course. Teaching methods of all the faculties are very good.

Internship opportunities are available for students. Students from third year (5th semester) onwards are eligible for internship. Many companies visit college with internship offers with a very good stipend.

Placements are very good. Students in 4th year (8th semester) are eligible for campus placements. 364 companies visited for campus placements in academic year 2023-24. 1650 job offers to students were made. Average annual CTC was INR 23.50 LPA and top recruiting sector was Engineering & Technology. 22 job offers of above INR 1 Crore was made. Around 75% students got placed in academic year 2023-24.

First Semester academic fees is ? 1,23,350 (in which 1 Lakh is tution fees) and second semester academic fees is ? 1,07,350 . So, first year fees is ? 2,30,700 . SC/ST students get 100% fee waiver on Tution Fees. General/EWS/OBC-NCL students whose family annual income is less than 1 Lakh get 100% tution fee waiver & whose annual family income is between 1-5 Lakh get 2/3rd waiver on tution fees. Hostel fees is ? 16,900 per semester and mess fees is ? 22,500 per semester. Many scholarships are available for needy students. Merit-cum-means scholarship is given to 25% of total students. Many other named & government scholarships are also available. Education Loan for needy is easily available on lower interest rates.

Fests here are very good. Technical festival of IIT Bombay is Tech-Fest which is Asia's largest college technical festival which is held in December every year. Annual fest of IIT Bombay is Mood Indigo which is also held in December every year. Talking about library, there is a very wide range and variety of books available and you can access them easily using your college ID Card. Here you get every sports and extra curricular activities being offered to you. Campus has indoor courts for every indoor games, a big cricket ground, other outdoor games ground and an olympic-size swimming pool. Talking about clubs, you get every club here depending on your interests.

From 1st to 3rd year, students are accomodated in double sharing rooms. Rooms are enough spacious for two people to live in it. Each student is provided with a study table, a chair, an almirah and an ethernet port. Mess food is good. Meal is given 4 times a day (i.e. breakfast, lunch, sancks and dinner).

You have to qualify JEE (Advanced) exam to get into IIT Bombay. Eligibility for JEE (Advanced) is you have to qualify JEE (Mains) exam, have greater than 75% in class 12th (or any other qualifying examination) / be in top 20 percentile of your board. Cut-off for qualifying JEE (Advanced) was 109 marks out of 360. Then you have to register for JoSAA counselling to take admission in IIT Bombay.

The faculty-to-student ratio is very good. They are very much approachable. They give us there email and there office location, where we can meet them. Prof. Swapneel who teaches us maths is very good. He gives very nice and detailed explanations. There isn't any faculty that I didn't like because everyone here is so nice and knowledgeable. We have one mid-sem and one end-sem exam in a semester. Exams are not very difficult but you need to understand the course content to get good marks. Most students clear all the courses. Course curriculum is very much relevant.