The Joint MSc Ph.D. Mathematics program at IIT Bhubaneswar is pretty good, in fact, it is one of the very few IIT that delivers this specific program. From the academic year, 2013-14 IIT Bhubaneswar is offering this program. You can take admission through a valid score in JAM. The minimum educational qualification required for this program is a bachelor’s degree with Mathematics / Statistics as a subject for at least two years/ four semesters. There are in total 20 seats available for this specific program.
Any student admitted to a Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D. are eligible for consideration to take admission into Ph.D. programs provided the student obtains a certain minimum CGPA at the end of the fourth semester. Otherwise, the student will have to leave with an M.Sc. degree. One can also on their own, decide not to continue with the Ph.D. program and leave with an M.Sc. degree after successful completion of all the academic requirements for the first four semesters.
The School of Basic Sciences in Bhubaneswar has good and experienced faculty members. It has received various research and consultancy projects funded by agencies like DST, CSIR, DBT, BRNS, as well as industries. The research focus for Mathematics at this IIT is mostly on, Optimization Techniques, Transport Phenomena & Molecular Dynamics, Queuing Theory, Applied Probability Models, Biomolecular Transport Dynamics, Soft Computing, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Methods, Combinatorial Matrix Theory, Graph Theory, Complex Dynamics, Fractals, etc.
Although IIT Bhubaneswar is among the new IITs, it holds a good placement record. According to 2019 placement highlights, the average salary package offered at this IIT was 11.44 lakh per annum. And a total of 89 companies visited for recruitment last year.
So, if you want to pursue Joint MSc PhD Mathematics, IIT Bhubaneswar is definitely a good option.
The college in the whole is a great experience for a student. It make a student independent and ready to face the challenges of the world. The education system is well structured and helps every student.
The college has very scholarships for students. Some include most deserving student, best student, student with the highest marks in a year. These scholarships help students to continue scale heights in their studies.
There are a lot of opportunities for a Biotechnologist after and in this field as we get to play in real time research playground with gaining the knowledge of various different companies and research going on around us
Students become eligible for placement in the last year. Before that, there are paid and unpaid internships students can do. The placements are average. Highest package is around 20lpa and lowest might be around 3lpa. Average package is around 8lpa.
Specific aspects of choosing the course was the love and passion towards nature and plants with environment. The faculty and students should allowed to play all together and try to spend time with each other. In this way a student and faculty will have a good bonding and connection. The area of improvement in course curriculum and teaching methods are very good and likely to get better. The frequency and timings of exam along with perspective on their difficulties level are moderate level and provide each types of questions and try to solve each question with little amount of answers correct.
The college has a Placement Cell where a student has to register. Companies come to college and conduct interviews. College does not provide internship. Depending on the course the package given by the companies vary.
The course touches on all the aspects that is needed for industry purposes completely. There are two CIAs and one end semester exam. Each CIA is of 20 marks each. The first one is written while the second one is either objective type questions, projects or presentations. The end semester exam is of 60 marks. The student needs to get a combined of 40 marks to pass the subject in a particular semester.
There are only a few companies that visit college for job placements in the field of Microbiology. The alumni networking for job referrals is very good. They help you understand where and how to get the desired job in their particular fields.
The syllabus of the course is a little vast as it covers a wide range of topics. But it is well up to date and includes topics such as recent discoveries and the latest techniques used in the field etc. Due to the ongoing situation we didn't get to visit any industrial areas, but there were visits scheduled. The previous years batch did visit a couple of industries and also got to carry out their internships at some of them.The faculty is really good and do their best to give us the best learning experience.