Mini Antony's Review On St Josephs College Irinjalakuda, Thrissur

Course curriculum of our institute is good. The course is well maintained and much focus on research and practice in biotechnology. We have both theoretical and practical classes, and have equal importance for both. We have six semesters and we have practical exams with them. We have complementary course of chemistry and environmental biotechnology.

Job and placement opportunities are less from college, but there are more opportunities in research labs and we can find on our own. There are more scope after doing MSc and higher education. Research opportunities are available with us. Internships at research labs are available.

College hosts various events from time to time. They are of international and national level by the department, International seminar on Trends in Microbiology and Molecular Biology,International seminar on "Interdisciplinary Developments In Cancer Research", National seminar on IPR-Tool to Protect Inventions and Creations in Biotechnology, etc. National events and festivals, cultural events are also organised.

Fee of the B.sc biotechnology comes under Government aided so the fee is less. Tution fee is 3000 for this course, special fee is 1455 and caution deposit one time payment is 360. The fee is feasible to all and has to be paid during admission.

The department has different extra curricular courses like ICT oriented classes, Remedial coaching, GD, Industrial visits to KFRI, seminars, Virtual lab and Wall magazine. We have various clubs which are for students to enhance skills and interest.These activities also enhance the social responsibility and creativity of the students. Gender ratio is of girls as it is women's college.

I got admission in BSc biotechnology course through merit. I applied to the course through online application and was given admission through merit according to my marks scored in 10+2. One should have studied 10+2 with Physics, chemistry and biology.

Faculty of our department is good, they are good in teaching the course. They have experience in teaching the course from many years. The faculty has presented many researcher papers, have won many prizes in seminars national and international level. They come from good education background.