Life of CUSATian

Data Science is a rising field in computer science. It has lots of oppurtunities in todays world and easy compared to other fields, which made me choose data science. The curriculum consist of various computer programming languages including Python, R and so on which are vital in the field of data science. There are also experienced faculties for teaching of the programming languages. I personally felt that lab hours are not adequate and also the available hours are also not properly utitlised by some teachers. At the end of each semester we have exams and results are published soon as the exams are over, no lagging compared to other universitites.

MTech Program has a duration of two years including 4 semesters. In each Semester, the semester fee is around Rs 20,000 and examination fee is around Rs 4,000. In total a semester costs around Rs 25,000. During the first two semesters, we have regular classes. In the second year, it is completely dedicated for project and electives. Students can also do internship during this period. There are reservations for EWS, SC, ST , OBC, OBH, Muslims and so on. Major Seats comes under the general category. Students can avail scholarship such as Egrantz that covers 100 % of their fees which can be equally applied by students belonging to all categories. Other scholarship such as NSP scholarship is available, but none of the students from my class got this scholarship.

The Annual Kalolsavan is Sargam, which is Held in the month of March every year. Apart from that it is a venue for lots of conferences, tech fests, scientific exhibitions, Concerts, Sports and tournaments and list goes on. The university library is consist of arounf 3 floors filled with vast varieties of books , that can satisfy the needs of all students from diverse branch of study. There is library lounge for students where they can study, do research, build project and do varoius things related to studies. The sports are also widely supported by CUSAT with best football grounds, basketball ground, badminton court and the list goes on. There are various clubs to support different talents of the student which is super active in the campus.

I have only applied to CUSAT, we i was not able to get admission there i would choose to work in a company. It was just a try from my side, but it actually worked out. For MTech, GATE qualifiers can direclty get the admission without any other exams. They can also avail monthly stipent of around Rs 10000. Other exam for admission is DAT exam which is conducted by the respective department of the course. I have taken the DAT exam under the Department of Statistics , where this MTech Data Science and Analytics is present. The eligibility includes BTech or MSc. Cutoff is majorly based on the number of students writing the exams and the number of seats. So cutoffs can vary. Students are selected based on the DAT ranklist. Spot admission is conducted for the remaining seats. There is also a least chance for students who didnt write the DAT Exam can also get the admission at the 2nd or 3rd spot admissions.

Our class size is 18. We have one teacher as class teacher. In the first year, each semester has around 6-7 subjects for each we have faculties. Inshort there as appropriate facluty for students. Best faculties Inlcude Sunoj Sir, K C James Sir, Irshad Sir, Ambili Maam, Asha Maam, Ex-Vice chancellor of CUSAT Sankaran Sir and the list goes on. Every teacher holds a doctorate degree and are well experienced and are supportive. All the faculties are really good, there are no one i dislike. Exams doesnt feel like too tough though. Teachers are helpful in preparing for the test, they also help us to improve our performance in the next exams. In my class, total 18 students are there, there is no one failed during the whole Course duration. Since everyone is pretty smart in my class , no one has active backlogs. The course curriculum is upto date and very relevant.

CUSAT has around 9 mens Hostel and 6 womens hostel that accomodates more than 1000s of students across the world. CUSAT has its own cafeterias called CUSAT cafe (known as CC among students) and CUSAT Restaurant (Known as CR among the students. I am a dayscholar so have no much knowledge about the timings and so on. The major hangout places include CUSAT park, Ikkante chayakada, Time pass Dhaba, Seaport airport raod and list goes on.