Sahil Chalana's Review On BITS Pilani (Pilani Campus), Pilani

The Management is very conservative. There have been cases of the senior professors beating up the students at the campus which is pathetic. The School of philosophy which they come from seems like they have been trained by RSS on "Indian Culture" Ethics.

I got around 314 in BITSAT and 9000 in AIEEE. From AIEEE prespective, I did not get any good colleges and was lucky enough to get IT (Information Systems) at BITS Pilani. Although the course is called MSc.(Tech) Information systems and seems like a masters course, its a Bachelors course as the College is deemed.

Frankly, the best thing at BITS Pilani was no attendance because is amazing as it helps you to do what you like. Like a lot others I did not take a lot of interest in the course though I must say the faculty also didnot take a lot of interest in teaching the course or making it better for us. As far as the curriculum is designed, at BITS, for the first two years its a general course with even a course like Management principles, Psychology being compulsory for us. Third year is Completely IT course, and 4th year divided into 1 sem Internship which I got at BSchool INSEAD, getting paid 1500 Euros a month and 2nd sem was 6 electives which range from IT, Finance, Management and even Film Making. So I took interesting courses like Film Making, Stock Markets making my experience decent.

My internship Experience was good. First was after the 2nd year at a Social MediaMarketing Startup out of Bombay. I loved it and taught me naunces of a startup. The 2nd Internship was at INSEAD based out of France (Rank 5 Business School) where I worked with Their IT department. It was a lovely experience and truly Golbal.

I am sure BITS Ranks in top 5-6 Colleges in India when it comes to placements. I guess the Average CTC (for my course) was around Rs 7 Lakh / Annum. The Top Companies were Amazon, Google, Bain offering from 10 Lakhs - 18 Lakhs but I have lesser idea since I did not sit for placements.

OASIS - The Cultural Festival was pretty amazing. It has a participation from more than 300 colleges and is one of the oldest cultural festivals in India. APOGEE - It was the technical Festival and ones of top ranked festivals based in India. CONQUEST - It is one of the biggest Business Plan Festivals in India with a prize money of more than 3 Lakhs. No wonder Startups are Hot at BITS Pilani.

I only know Merit Cum Need Scholarship which was around 50% of tuition Fees with the Parensts income is less than Rs 3 Lakhs/Annum. I think there is also Aditya Birla Scholarship but don't have much idea about that.

Campus life is lovely. I can proudly say its one of the most culturally rich campuses in India with big diversity. To be honest its the only college in North India with the very significant South Indian Population. Labs are well equipped specially the Electronics ones and Bio ones. A lot of cultural Associations have their cultural night, food tasting nights. Debates and these competitions happen during the technical festivals. Robotics is also big and it has produced India's biggest Robotics company Grey Orange Robotics.

To be very honest the hostels are bad and during my Course,Washrooms were not good but considering the fact that we paid Rs 500 per sem, it was a great deal. Mess food especially for boys was bad and I ended up having food at small restaurants in the camp

I would rate BITS Alumni Network in the Top 3. BITS has one of the biggest Alumni days celebrated on the 7th August of every year when all Alumni Globally organise Local Meetups. There are google Groups and help specially for students who are travelling for competitions abroad and Seed Funding for entrepreneurs.