IIT Guwahati, one of its best

The particular civil engineering programme involves design and entrepreneurship opportunities where students can exhibit their prototyoes and business ideas. The curriculum teaches the finite element method (FEM) which is useful in analyzing complex structural problems.Using computer aided design we are taught to create sustainable efficient creative and durable systems. The exams are conducted on a frequent interval with end semester and mid semester with short-term quizzes and surprise exams. Lab exams are also very efficiently conducted.

The internship interviews normally start in third year of admission with companies like JPMC, Standard Chartered, WellsFargo , Deshaw, BPL, BPCL, Infosys, Reliance, Nutanix, Microsoft, Google and Amazon appearing to hire. Mostly Software developers are hired in mass with core job opportunities and management and consulting analyst roles offered fairly well.

Students normally appear for placements in fourth year with two placement seasons namely from december to january and february to march. Companies include quant companies and tech giants like JPMC, Reliance Industries, WellsFargo,Piramal, Standard Chartered,Texas Instrumentation, walmart, Microsoft, Amazon, Deloitte,Oracle, HCL, Barclays, Tata steel, uber, legato, Mastercard, Nutanix, BPCL, BEL,PWC, Socgen, etc. Almost 80% students get placed every year with the average package ?1,60,000. The highest package was 1.68 crore per annum from the branch of Computer Science.

For the btech course fees is 1,32,000 per semester with a tuition fee of 1,00,000 and the rest contibuted by gymkhana fees, mess and hostel fees if applicable. Student may avail tuition fee waiver apropos of their income from whole to a complete fee waiver if the income falls below 1,00,000 per annum and two thirds of tuition fee if annual income falls between 1,00,000 and 5,00,000. There is the merit cum means scholarship for students of ST/SC categories with 1000 per month and tuition fee waiver upto 25%.

The annual techno-management fest Technicge us held every year oragnised by IIT Guwahati during the month of October. It is north east India's biggest techno-management fest with tech enthusiasts from all over the nation and abroad gathering for various activities like robowars, robi exhibitions, technothlon examination. There is North East's biggest cultural Fest Alcheringa organised by IIT Guwahati displaying all talents with games and lots of fun. The fun nights with celebrity pronites, concerts, speeches from heavyweights, parties, DJ nights and stalls. Held in the month of February it is a cherry on winter season of Guwahati.Udgam, the annual entrepreneurship fest conducted by e-cell IITG is also a main attraction. The Loknath Bezbaroa Central Library is a repository of books acroos all genres from svience, fiction, technology to psychology, literature, management, business studies and humanities from history to evolution the library has over 2,00,000 booms with excellent air conditioned seating halls

The rooms are two men sharing for the first two years and then single shared rooms. Rooms are provided with beds almirahs, cupboards and shelfs. Fans are provided in each room with router ports and two charging portals per person. The rooms are accessible to high speed internet with nearly 100mbps. Meal quality is average with meals being catered to groups. Breakfast has continental essentails with bread, jam, butter, beverages and the main course with sprouts available. The menu varies for each day of the week. With regular reviews every month, menu is varying for each month which is very good including a monthly review by students of the mess. The hostel facility comes alongwith admission for required students. Hostel are very much affordable with reasonable prices.

Various other colleges I received based on my JEE rank was IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Hyderabad and oher tier 2 and 3 IIT's. But IIT Guwahati had a better course option for me and known for its efficient alumni network, teaching department, ambiance and college life prospects I chose IIT Guwahati over others. Other colleges I opted to join were not available due to my JEE rank. The eligibility exam is JEE Advanced after JEE Mains which is considered one of the toughest exams in India. Rank varies for courses, normally an All India Rank from 400 to 8000 will permit you to take admission on general category whereas the limit pushes a bit further for other categories. The cutoff varies from year to year depending on difficulty of the JEEA. The admission procedure was excellent with JOSAA facilitating the choice of colleges and courses with priorities filled in accordance with ranks secured by the student.

The facutly to student ratio is 1:18 with faculties fluent in English Hindi and their region of language. The relationship is very good when it comes to faculties with them very open to new ideas and doubt clearances willing to uplify students at every point. The attendance policy prescribes 75% per course and students will have to reappear failing to comply with the above.

The gym facilities are very good under gymkhana facilities with all core workout equipments including central gym and hostel-wise gym facilities. Cafeterias and canteens are provided in ever hostel apart from the hotels stalls and restaurants within the campus run by privates providing various options for food and beverages. Public and hangout spots include serpentine lake, thihor lake, machanical hill, suryamukhi view, brahmaputra ghat, etc. Hostel has no out timings allowing free-stroll even during nights to enjoy night life and campus beauty. The campus in timing is 10:30pm when all gates close. Famous spots nearby include shillong, sikkim, Bhutan, Umiam lake, Darjeeling, kaziranga wildlife sanctuary, assam state zoo and many hidden waterfalls and hiking spots. The locality is super safe for night roams in the city while rural areas might be risky.