IIT Hyderabad Rocks

Positives: Good Infrastructure. Great Teaching Staff. Good Food facilities. Good transportation services. Negatives: Away from the main city. Still under construction. Mess food quality is deteriorating.

The Biotech IIT Hyd course curriculum is good as per the standards of Indian education and the professors are highly adept and qualified. The courses in Biotechnology Dept. for M.Tech are the same for PhD students. The only improvement required is the addition of Bioprocessing course in the curriculum.

From the Dept. Of Biotechnology, placements are not easy as core pharma or biotech companies do not come up for campus placements. But once you qualify and get your degree, it is easy to get a job when you go out and apply individually to companies like HiMedia, Pfizer etc. Internship is available upon directly approaching the professor.

Elan is THE fest of IIT Hyd. It is a grand event with events cultural and technical. You can check out by googling it 'IIT Hyd Elan' and also check out in YouTube. From events ranging from Robot wars to Band competition, Elan is all that a college fest can hope for.

Feasible, I would say for PhD as we get stipend money. But for the B.Techs it is expensive as no scholarship or stipend is available. Even for MTech peeps, there is a minimal stipend money to care and fend for the expenses.

GATE scholarship or CSIR NET scholarship or DBT scholarship. These are the thouree common scholarships for PhD students in IIT Hyd. Other than that, loans can be taken from YES bank or AXIS bank. I have not availed of any loans.

Cultural activities like dance and band competitions are always encouraged. Even coding and riddling competitions are quite often held to encourage students be happy aside from their studies and daily life.

5 stars are not enough to describe the hostel facilities as these are new IIT hostels and have good infrastructure. Each student is alloted one single room and it has pod system where each floor has four pods. Each pod has one common washouroom and 8 single rooms.

Yes. Not only the alumni network but the management facilities are also very helpful. The college authorities do listen and try helping. Seniors are friendly to the juniors and the cultural activities going on, help in this fine bonding.

I had qualified GATE 2015 (Biotechnology) and was selected for an interview upon application to the PhD program. I cracked the interview process and was accepted into PhD course in Biotechnology Department of IIT Hyd.

In one word, Awesome. The professors are really good and interested in the welfare of the students. They are very helpful and always available for clearing doubts. I have very good experience with the professors.