The study here can be a boon or a bane, depending on your perception

Management is one of the worst I've seen. College is great in the part of educational tours thourough which you'll cover almost all Forest types of the country. Also some scientists are amazing. And there are lot of opportunities for relevant projects. The worst part is university's unsupportive attitude, and bad management.

Course curriculum, for MSc forestry is quite outdated, not upto the present need, and teaches you methods and techniques which were in use some 5 decades ago or so. Present equipments are either unavailable with them or they are just not enough for their use in educational purposes. Not research driven, and even if you want to do some research work on your own, you'll be deterred from it by the university administration. Few placements, but not significant enough to mention (the university website's information on placements is misleading). And, the best part of studying here is, visits. Both, in the fields, and industrial visits. Which is quite frequent, and most finely managed. Rest of the university is run by few people only.

The placements are not so great. Also there are no great prospects in forestry in private sector in India. There are few in agroforestry and relevant fields. Few of my mates are placed in JK papers, which is a paper manufacturing firm. Of the class of 40 students, 2 got placed. So 5% placements (here, I'm taking about forestry. In the wood science and technology course, placements are 100%). University, quite unexpectedly, do not allow its students to do an internship, and often discourages the students to join somewhere as intern. Though few of the students do internship, without the knowledge if university. And if asked the permission to do internship, the dean, and university administration refuses, usually the reason being, it may lead to missing few classes which is not acceptable to them.

One, quite formal, cultural festival. No other such event. There used to be celebrations of various Indian festivals amongst students, and also festive celebrations of farewell and Freshers which, quite contrary to students choices, are strictly restricted by the dean of the university.

Fee are feasible, compared to private institutions. Though, is expensive if compared to government colleges. Paid per semester. Average, it is INR 40000 per semester. While securing admission, fees for 1st semester and some security deposit are made.

Only one scholarship per course is offered to the one getting highest marks. In 1st semester it is based on entrance exam results. The scholarship amount is INR 13000, which is about the fifth of the annual tuition fee.

Campus life is good, only if you're one into nature. The campus has some amazing, biodiversity, including the highest diversity of birds in any college campus in India, a great plant diversity, and some splendid diversity of butterflies and moths and snakes. But if you're more is party kind of person, there are not good options. You like practically in a jungle. Just a bit more equipped jungle. One annual sports meet, one cultural festival annually, and few activities by students groups. There form some good birding and nature walk groups. The hostel life, dorm parties are, as anywhere else, quite great, unforgettable experience.

Yes. Full hostel facility is there for all students. There are different hostels are girls and boys. The food in the boys hostel is terrible, and usually not quite edible. One in girls hostel is pretty well. The food is unhygienic, cooked in not so comely conditions. The hostel rooms are quite good, but the conditions of toilets are deplorable.

Not so strong alumni network. Not is forming gradually, and alumnus being helpful. There is some interactions with college seniors, but again, there isn't that much time for good bonding.

The admission us thourough a common entrance test, conducted in may and merit list released somewhere in june,and admissions happen in early 2nd week of July. For the admission procedure, some list of documents are required which are listed on the notification. The merit list has the names of the selected candidates, and also accompanies it a waitlisted students' list, who usually gets the admissions, as the few students in the main list either do not consider for admission or withdraws it for some other options.

The faculty is quite good. As there is no formal faculty in the university, and the scientists from the FRI and WII and other relevant institutions teaches us. Which is a better part, as they have more field exposure and better practical experiences to teach. The negative part is, few scientists, despite being quite good ones, aren't so good at teaching in the class. The university administration is extremely unsupportive, often assigning the classes to those scholars or scientists.