Dharmraj Jhatakia's Review On Institute Of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad

I joined the college in 1995 after the Gujarat State Boards HSC examination. I had a few options as far as the college and courses go. The key reason for me to chose the college was based on the primary research that I had done.

The course curriculum was nicely structured in the sense that there were lot of value adds provided by the college beyond the Gujarat University standard. There was lot of focus on project based activities. The other aspect was that unlike some other colleges, we got industry exposure as well. There was lot of collaboration with foreign universities and programs for part perusal of course abroad. That gave us global exposure.

Yes. The stipend at that time was zero but I am not sure on the current standards. However, I must say that I would not go by stipend, rather than the opportunity of doing some real work. For e.g. I was on internship at a gear manufacturing company and was able to do real good work of things like programming a CNC machine.

There were quite a few events covering the overall development. Technical events for projects and evaluation of them, cultural event were at large scale with very nice arrangements, participation. We had management address and guest lectures from prominent industry personality as well, which I would not classify as Management Festival , however, good events to give us insights.

There was a loan facility for international programme. No idea about any other such facility. I did not avail loan or scholarship.

Nirma had a very good and systematic exams as well as lab based assessment. We had assignments , tests and apart from that lab work based grading which was included as part of overall grades. We were perhaps the only college which had working Saturdays as well to allow us to do lab work. Attendance was mandatory and strict action were taken on lack of that or any other disciplinary issues.

The admission was as per the merit score of the Gujarat State Board exams at that point of time. The process in that regards was simple as we were required to chose the college and the seat available at that point of time. I chose Mechanical Engineering. I see that now, the process has changed and there are written tests / interviews etc, but in my times, it was not there.

The faculty was very well seasoned. Almost all were the best teachers from some of the best colleges of Gujarat who were brought together. Some of them were IIT graduates as well. The faculty had the passion to make this college a success, and following closely, I must say that they achieved their vision with Nirma being one of the top colleges in Gujarat now.