IISER Thiruvananthapuram Reviews on Placements, Faculty and Facilities

This course allows us to do 5 years of integrated BS MS. We only have to choose our major subject after two years of the foundation course. IISER allows us to do research-based education. All the faculties teaching us are top-grade faculties who have a minimum requirement of a Ph.D. and postdoc. They are each researching their respective topics. There are many professors and each has a group of Ph.D. candidates who are our TAs(Teaching Assistants) taking tutorials for us. We have mid-semester and end-semester exams along with assignments, group projects, labs, and lab exams.

I was interested in pursuing research in Basic Sciences. IISERs provide BS-MS dual degree in Basic Sciences and also provide full exposure to research from the very beginning. One can enroll for various summer and winter internships while pursuing the course which makes one ready for the real world of research.