My experience at Vijayapur college

All the subjects that are included in the course are really important to survive in the agriculture sector if someone wants to build career. These courses teaches from fundamentala to advanced technology covering each and every aspect of this field. I think practical experience plays very important role in preparing students for the real world challenges rather than theory. So college has to give more importance to practical classes and conduct field classes more often rather than classroom teaching. Exams schedule and difficulty level is at par

Fee has to be paid semester wise and it used to be within 20,000 , sometimes 16,000 and sometimes 18,000. This fee might increase every year by certain percentage not very large. Hostel is free since government bears it. For mess, additional fee has to be paid. It varies according to the ration / food consumed, used to be in the range 2000-3000. Scholarships provided : 1.SSP - 20,000 /yr 2.NSP - 10,000 - 12,000 /yr 3.Merit scholarship based on 12th score for 4 years Mess is free of cost for sc/st. They also get additional facilities of laptop, pendrive etc.

The library is well equipped with all books necessary during the course and accessible anytime till evening 5 pm. All festivals are celebrated in the campus. Annual sports meet which conducts various sports competition, youth fest includes all cultural participation, etc A study club is run by students where everg week students who are interested meet and dicuss on various current affairs and general knowledge, improves ones knowledge drastically.

There are 2 girls hostels, and 3 boys hostels. Rooms are well equipped with bed, cupboards, mirror, large windows, curtains, attached washrooms. A safety deposit of around 10k has to be paid for hostel which will be returned back while leaving the college. Registration process for hostel is simple and is done on the first day after arrival. Its free of cost for government seat. Breakfast, lunch, eveng snacks and dinner is provided every day. Quality is meal is good.

In Karnataka, one can get seat in agriculture college through K-CET. We are supposed to give priority order for our colleges. So my priority order was - 1.University of agricultural Sciences, Dharwad 2.College of Agriculture, Vijayapura 3.University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur 4.GKVK, Bengaluru.. So i got into college of agriculture vijayapura. I couldn't make it to UASD dharwad since the cut off was a big high. I put vijayapura college as my 2nd priority because it is the sub campus of dharwad university itself. Uasd was my frst prefereed university because i have heard a lot about its reputation and faculty and campus life. Once I got selected for the college i had to visit college for further admission process by submitting all the necessary documents, filling out the admission form, paying the 1st semester fees.

College of agriculture, Vijayapur, has great faculty and infrastructure. There are separate departments for every subject and ecah department has an HOD and 4-5 lecturers. All lecturers are very well experienced and teach very well. To take the name of best faculty, I would say Dr. Vastrad sir, HOD of Plant pathology, he's great at teaching and always available for our doubts and approchable. Also Dr. Prakash, faculty of plant entomology, he teaches the best I would not say i hated this professor but i never liked her teaching style - Dr. Vasantha kumari, she is very knowledgeable though and I have a huge respect. The only thing is i never understood. There are 4 semesters and in each semester we have one internal assessment and one external assessment. The question papers difficulty level i would rate 7/10. The course curriculum is very relevant and mostly everyone passes the exams except few.

The college is located in the outskirts of vijayapura, so its 7kms away from city. In between city and college theres hypermart where one can spend their time and hangout sometimes for lunch, snacks or dinner. College has a canteen and a xerox shop. Usually students spend their time in farm fields. College is covered with full of fields so, it feels good to hang out in the evening.