I'm studying History and Archaeo and I'm interested in that field. The methods used for teaching are PPTs, Showing us various archaeological structures in our very own college museum, etc. The timing and syllabus for exams is based on what the professors teach and they prepare us well for it
There are almost 80-100 companies reaching out to the college for placements every year. This is a huge number and can be thus seen as a major highlight. Students from all departments become a part of the placement drive and get successfully placed in different companies.
The curriculam is designed for all round development of the student and to make that person an expert in that field, these aspects influeneced me to choose it. Very well, with extra paper of real world application on each subject it ensures that we take something from the course and become industry ready The teachings methods and cirriculam are excellent I don't think any changes are required Exams are all year round, every month and are extremly difficult to deal with, as Xavier's bar is very high.
The college has a placement cell that provides students with information about vacancies for jobs they might me interested in. The cell also organises for the recruiters of various firms to come to the college and recruite students.
The courses are updated every few years. The college has started with a feedback mechanism on the curriculum, which allows the faculties to decide if the curriculum and the way of teaching is up to the mark for the students.
The Bachelors programme did not have placements. There is no placement programme for Bachelors students
The curriculum is very well balanced in terms of relevance to current world topics. In the case of sociology I don't think it prepares you for real world jobs as the Sociology curriculum is very theory based and it doesn't teach a lot of real world applications, but it does thoroughly prepare you for further academic pursues such as purse using your masters in a different country. They teach you to write complex thesis and dissertations which are necessary skills to know. The teaching methods could be improved and a lot of teachers could work on the feedback that they received from the Student feedback forms, as several of the teachers are not good at engaging the students during lectures and often make them fall asleep. The frequency and timing of exams is pretty balanced, the difficulty is also just right but the marking system could be a bit more lenient.
It's was providing Masters in AIC that's why I went for this one. We have interview based selection under NEP but before that you've to fill the forms on Mumbai University website as well on St Xavier's website.
The yearly fee for the the first year is taken all together and that is around 40,000 and for the next year it's 38,000. Everything is added in this fee only like tuition, registration, admission and others. There's no category based fee structure. Scholarships are for people who yearly income is below 4 lakh and a resident of Maharashtra and other south India States.
In my course professors are very well know and have deep knowledge about the subject. They teach their subjects with passion and zeal. Curriculum is good but at times they include subjects which can't learn in 6 months or so. Exams and studies are so fast here that they don't even complete 6 months but in 5 months they are done with the semester.