IIT Mandi, The best among the best

Based on my experience at other IITs, social life of IIT Mandi is far better. As it is situated in the hills so the environment is much better. The only thing people miss there is the facilities. Transportation to IIT Mandi is not good, as we have only one option to reach there. There are no nearby good hospitals, shops, theater and all.

In order to gt admission in IIT Mandi, you will have to qualify IIT-JEE. I blongs to OBC category and I scored 42% in JEE. At this score I had IIT Jodhpur, IIT Patna, IIT Ropar and IIT Mandi as a options. For admission in M.S or PhD you will have to write the written test and also clear the interview rounds. IIT Mandi receives around 10,000% (100 applications for 1 seat) applications for masters and PhD.

Academic curriculum is organised and divided nicely. For B.tech students courses are divided in core and elective. You will have to complete min 160 credits for degree. It involves courses from humanities ( min. 18 credits, around 6 courses), free credits (min. 12 credits, you can take any course like chemistry, biotech, physics etc) and core courses. Here is the more detailed explanation: The distribution of credits for each of the major components: Institute Core Courses (88 Credits) Sciences - 25, Common Engineering - 42, Design & Innovation Practicum - 6, Humanities +Management- 13, Internship - 2, Electives Courses (30 Credits), Design & Innovation Practicum (includes final year project) – 12, Humanities Electives - 5, Free Electives - 13, Discipline Core and Discipline Elective Courses (42 Credits) Discipline core - 30, Discipline Electives – 12

IIT Mandi had only three branches. Civil branch started in 2016 only. Package and opportunities follows: CSE > ME >= EE. In the top companies we have Amazon, Microsoft, flipkart and all. in 2015 one student also got placed in Google. Placement of ME and EE students in core companies is not up to the mark. Average is 10-11 lac for CSE and 6-8 lac for EE and ME.

The biggest cultural-technical fest of the college is "Exodia", Exodia has participants from all over the north India.

Fees structure is standard as decided by central government. Administrative people update the fee details before every semester. Fees for B tech students (GEN and OBC) is around 1 Lac.

There are two banks in the campus SBI and PNB. Both of the banks provide loan facility only in the starting of the courses. Ex. If you are in 4 year B.Tech then in only first and second year you will have to apply for the loans. If you plan to go for loan in of after 3rd year then they will not provide you. Also 25% students awarded by scholarship everyone year (full tuition fees except is refunded).

Gender ratio is worse. The max. gender ratio in B tech is 10% and the min is 5%. In M.S.C and M.S, PhD the gender ratio is quite good. IIT Mandi has setup all the labs to it's new campus and has all the required things there. This year they have made all the sports grounds. Capacity of the ground (no. of students who can play parallel) is not good enough right now. IIT Mandi seniors regularly organize technical competitions. Students from other colleges also participate in the events.

Mess food is not up to the mark as per day mess charge is 100/-. Around 70% meals will be good. According to my 4 year of experience breakfast is the best meal there which is much better than outside Dhaba or restaurants. Quality or taste of food in lunch and dinner is not that good. As IIT Mandi has shifted to it's new campus so it has very new hostels there. New hostels are more like beautiful hotels. Facilities in the hostels are far better than hotels. Microwave, Fully automatic washing machine, electric cattle, Cloths drier etc. on each floor. The most important is Every floor has a meeting room with the facility of projector and black board where 10-12 students can sit together. Hostels are designed in such a way that you will see natural lights coming every time. Every hostel has 3 floor only. The max. capacity of a hostel is 96 (2 sharing).

As the social life is too good there so the interaction among people is also good. We have mix hostels and mix courses with seniors and juniors. Alumni are friendly and we interact with them. College also invite successful alumni for any advice or guidelines to students.

IIT Mandi doesn't follow the exam structure of other IITs. As all other IITs have one mid semester exam and one final exam but IIT Mandi has 1st quiz, 2nd quiz and final exam. 1st quiz will be after one month of the semester starting, 2nd quiz will be around 40 days after that and then final exam at the end of the semester.

If you compare the faculties of IIT Mandi with other IITs then it is average. Most of the professors did their PhD from good universities of world. IIT Mandi has lot's of young assistant professors. Also some of the professors are from older IITs and very experienced.