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Name: IISER Mohali, be ready to get introduced to academic roller coaster:)
Item: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - [IISER]
Rating: 4
Author: Arka Dutta

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Course

3.5

Campus

4.5

College

4.0

Hostel

4.0

Internship

4.0

Arka Dutta

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - [IISER], BS + MS, Physical Science

Reviewed on Sep 28, 2023(Enrolled 2018)

What Students Say

Likes

Cultural diversity, as there are people here from all over India everyone gets to learn and be part of other cultures while still being able to celebrate their pwn.
The exposure to research opportunities are huge here everyone tend to do an internship from their first year with the 3 months holiday and be around labs from all over the world.
The course curriculum is very research focused. Compared to other universities you actually have to have good understanding to do well in the exams.

Dislikes

The administration is kind of rigid when it comes to be flexible for students.

Course Curriculum Overview

3.5

This course mainly focuses on building foundations for basic science among students. As I always wanted to become a scientist I chose this institution. In my opinion, IISERs are way more research than other Indian Universities because of the following reasons 1. Course structure focuses a lot on building up essential skills for both experimental and theoretical sciences. 2. The extensive summer internship culture in IISERs helps the students to get introduced to research from their very first year. 3. The professors have connections with other scientists worldwide which can help students explore research in a lot of advanced laboratories and institutes. Talking about the course structure here1. Courses are usually pretty extensive as every course includes a lot of assignments, quizzes, two mid-sems and one end-sem. 2. As the core courses here for the first two years include all four subjects (PCMB) the core courses don't go that deep which makes the major courses pretty extensive.

Class Size: 209Course Fees: INR 71000 per year

Internships Opportunities

Here internships are research internships mostly where students go to other university labs or our uni kabs to explore research methods and all. This starts from the first year itself. They are expected to submit a report by the end of summer where they get 3 months break for this internship.

Fees and Financial Aid

Fees are being hiked every year which almost increased 50% in the last five years. Scholarship options are available like Inspire and institutional scholarships for the EWS category. For Inspire scholarship you need to have your class 12 score in the range mentioned by DST.

Campus Life

4.5

We have insomnia (cultural fest) around October. Our library is one of the best university libraries for sure. Classrooms are well equipped with great sound systems, and good desks. The sports facilities are quite good. Our club culture is really active. Starting from academic clubs like physics club we have clubs for loads of extracurricular activities. Our institute is very diverse culturally as there are people from all over India.

Admission

I got admission via one of three possible channels (KVPY, JEE advanced, IISER aptitude test) for admission which is KVPY. It's an exam that used to provide students with seats in IISERs, and IISc along with scholarships until their masters.

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Course Curriculum Overview:

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An Institute of excellence in Science

Placement Experience:

Students get eligible for placements in the 5th year. Deloitte, mckinsy like companies come to campus placements. Highest package is 18lacs pa. Very less number of students sit for placements. A large number of people go abroad for phd.

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GLIMPSES OF IISER MOHALI

Course Curriculum Overview:

The course structure now concist of one core year, one pre-major year and three major years. In the co year we have to study all the subjects available, in pre major two of them and in major, one. For now we are the first batch to have pre major(before it was two core years). So its experimental and hence we get delayed response from the admin. This should be improved. This curriculum teaches well enough to get on with the modern day research problem from the bachelor years only. And abou the exams, we have continuous evaluation, three major exams per semester.

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ANKIT SARKAR

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Course Curriculum Overview:

The curriculum is set in a way to encourage for further research. It does prepare for real-world applications and future academic persuit. In general the courses are quite interactive but sometimes if feels like it's running faster than what an average student can grasp. Sometimes there are problems with exam since there are three exams in semester of four months and at the end it feels like we are only studying for the sake of exams

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Soumendu Jana

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IISER Mohali : another home with love and science

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The curriculum of IISER mohali is very different from any other college in India, it is designed to give students real life application with understanding of fundamental concepts of all the subjects. The most interesting part of the curriculum is inclusion of social science with traditional science subjects, so that students stay conscious about real life problems and society, and help to remove the problems. The labs cources are well designed with problems from ongoing research. The teachers use interactive boards to elaborate us topics with audio visual medium. There are 3 exams in a semester, two mid semster exam and one end semester exam. The student who might fail a course given chance to pass it in summer. The difficulty of exams depends on proffesor. But most of the exams in first two year are easy to moderate but from third onwards its moderate to difficult. The curriculum is designed to specifically who want to persue research in future and provides really great foundation.

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