What Students Say
Likes
- The location of the college is quite easily accessible and the area around it, albeit a construction nightmare, has everything one would require for recreation and lodging
- The labs are well equipped and many more have been added over the last year due to redevelopment of the original building, this benefitting the newer batches
- The have also diversified the curriculum adding more valuable subjects providing life skills and have shifted the focus from delivering pure science to all round personality development this cultivating a well equipped individual
Dislikes
- The infrastructure for conducting large scale events in the campus doesn't exist, so freshers need to forget amazing college fests. Also there is no space for any sort of sports and students have to frequently rely on medical campus which is far.
- Placement drives can be improved along with more industry opportunity as it is disheartening to hunt for dissertation institutes without/ with minimal support from the college
- The process to get anything done in this college is overly time consuming and requires the student to wait after hours for days on end just for them to realise that it has been postponed to the next day, this is valid for every document.
Course Curriculum Overview
As far as teaching methods go, a more non-monotonus direction of teaching would greatly improve the retention of students, also repetition of topics in a few subjects was what I frequently observed during my time over there, which could take some work to be minimised in the curriculum as it breeds boredom and sleepiness as a student. The difficulty and the frequency of exams is all right it's just that majority of the course is taught during the last few days before the exam which makes us students feel overly stressed due to the load of not being able to plan and cover each topic that was freshly taught
Internships Opportunities
There are very minimal internship opportunities with maximum stipend being offered around 15k. Many companies seeking marketing oriented individual are available. Pure science roles are few and far between and the student has to search for them themself.
Placement Experience
I cannot give a valid feedback on the placements since I haven't been a part of one from our college. But I believe they have started it from this year onwards and will continue it for the foreseeable future. Our seniors have all been placed around the world with average package being 7lpa. Most of the students of my course have opted for further studies abroad joining other institutions as PhD scholars.
Fees and Financial Aid
Year wise fees that I paid were pretty consistent never exceeding 2 lakh, but have certainly increased a bit since I joined as during the 1st year it was 1.7lk which included the 28k development fee that they charge each year. In the 5th year the fee was 1.9lk including the development fee which remained the same. The fee structure for B.Tech Biotechnology course is also pretty much the same except for the fact that they only have 4 year instead of 5. The fee structure might have changed for the new batches. As far as scholarships go, at our time they used to conduct their own entrance exam or considered NEET/JEE/MHTCET marks, which I believe above 90 percentile used to give a certain scholarship on the 1st year fees
Campus Life
Cytosoul is the name of the cultural fest which is held every year during Feb and March. It is usually held within campus and is generally 3 days long with the final day being held in the Medical campus auditorium. Along with this a sports fest is also held which involves students from all DY Patil institutions in Pune, it is called UMANG as far as I remember. There's a Freshers held every year during August which is conducted to welcome the new batch. Finally there's also a Farewell held for the graduating batches during October. Clubs are varied ranging from Science club to Photography to Art to Gaming to Sports which are some of the prominent ones. There is no sports played on campus except maybe some indoor stuff All classrooms are equipped with atleast a projector if not a smartscreen for teaching and extracurricular purposes. Library is really well equipped when it comes to Biotechnology related books and one can find all of them related to his/her current curriculum.
Admission
I also applied for the DY Patil Akurdi branch which offered B.Tech in Biotechnology with a similar fee structure and even got into it, I changed to DYPBBI due to the unique Integrated course they offered which provided a Masters degree in a 5 years course. The addmission process is quite straightforward and is hassle free most of the time as the college looks after it with great interest. They mostly require the 12 pass certificate along with a minimum 60% marks in the 12 board exam. NEET /JEE/ MHTCET were also considered during my time of addmission.
Faculty
During my time here I have met some brilliant faculty members and each of them have been engraved in my mind. I have also watched them work on the criticism provided, albeit not always in a positive direction but have witnessed their growth as teachers. Contrastingly I have also seen some faculty more abstinent than plastic itself when it comes to degrading while not harming nature, what I meant to say was that overall about 30% of them are amazing when it comes to delivering knowledge and values whereas the other 70% can be considered sub par or lacking the fitness to be even teaching.
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