Remarks
NIT Rourkela promotes research mindsets among the students. Instead of spoon feeding, efforts are taken by the professors to let the students fights their own battle and gather knowledge on their own. The outcome is surely advantageous.
Course Curriculum Overview
Professors promoting research ideology prompted me to take up masters in NIT Rourkela. However, one must be ready to face innumerable challenges. Faculty student interaction is good enough. Not much should be expected from the faculties since reading out slides doesn't help. Exams are however timely conducted and scoring marks is quite difficult.
Placement Experience
As usual, recruitment for the circuital and software branches are quite good. Data analytics companies offer good packages and the pre requisite for these jobs is the knowledge of coding. However, one must struggle with low package or less options for the core branches.
Fee Structure And Facilities
Monthly stipend scheme exists for M.Tech students (12.4k/month) as offered by the Central government. Fee hike is a problem since many a times the fee is hiked without prior notices. One can expect a easy recruitment if he or she is willing to go into software jobs but getting into a core job is quite difficult. Pandemic made it worse.
Campus Life
NIT Rourkela is famous for its 800+ acres of green campus. The fests are quite good and attracts participants from all over the country. The library holds 65k+ volumes of different journals but what one needs is difficult to acquire. The digital library access is flawed and is often unreachable for the students. A number of clubs exists managed by the Students Activity Centre that are dedicated to a specific area of interest starting from photography, drama to hacking.
Hostel Facilities
NIT Rourkela is fully residential and is mandatory to reside in the hostels. The hostels are much much better than most of the other NITs. Meal quality is OK and one mustn't expect too much from hostel caterers. Night canteens are present in every hostel that remain open till 2AM and one can visit these canteen to avoid the mess food.
Admission
No. For M.Tech admission, GATE score is the deciding factor. However, for Ph.D admission, an interview must be cleared along with after being shortlisted based on the valid GATE score from previous three years prior to the admission.
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