Average life of an IITMian

I would rate the course curriculum to be 8 out of 10. The relevance and comprehensiveness is quite good but the way it is taught and evaluation processes are not so good. Few professors give very easy grading whereas few professors give very low grades even after scoring good and doing alot of hardwork (sometimes because of relative grading). Learning skills to be able to be prepared for real life experiences varies widely from branch to branch like people from CSE get to learn alot of expertise and skills to solve real life problems but for other branches it is not so good because often people don't seem to be intrested in their course and try going for non core (software) placements.

Professors offer projects every semester and one can join the project by contacting the professor. Google STEP, JPMC quant Mentorship and many other start-ups offer hire interns with an average stipend of 10-20k. Google STEP pays highest which is 87k per month

In BTech, from 7th semester students are eligible to take up placements. If they are not placed they may go for startup or write GATE to get offer from PSUs or join IIMs or go foreign for MS or UPSC civil services. Good number of companies visit which includes top companies like Google, Microsoft, JPMC and many more. Around 60-70% of students get placed. I would like to join Civil Services.

I am not totally aware of the fee increase policy but the fee structure is like general category students pay around 1 Lakh per semester as tuition fee whereas people from reserved category have no fees or very less fee. And hostel fee is mandatory for everyone which includes mess fees. People from reserved categories get NSP scholarship based on the income of their family and also an institute scholarship which is also based on the income of parents. As I belong to ST category I am supposed to pay 33000 hostel fee and 15000 institute fee which includes other charges like wellness, maintenance, etc. And I am exempted from the tuition fee.So it takes around 4 Lakhs for me to complete my education from this University.

Saarang (annual cultural fest) and Shaastra (annual Technical fest) both held in January are the major events which gather very large footfall even from outsiders. The Central Library has quite a lot of books and is available for all on first come first serve basis as there cannot be enough number of books for everyone in the branch and there is no restriction on how long can we keep a book with us as there is choice of renewal. The infrastructure and facilities in the classrooms are all high class. Students who want to join sports have no barriers, they can just go and practice with the people but selections and high amount of practice is required to become an inter IIT player. Co-curriculars include clubs like CFi, Nirmaan, Programming club and tech related workshops which requires a lot of effort and skills and people are recruited through various stages like application, test, interview.MITR, Saathi are student wellness programs and also many other clubs like Acad buddy, Pragati.

Facilities in a hostel vary from hostel to hostel as new buildings come up and are equipped with the technology of that time. We are given a choice pf choosing mess once a month or 45 days which allows to change to any mess and the quality of the mess food will be good in the beginning of the mess period but it looses consistency as days go on. Registration and payment of fees is all done through ikollege, a webportal for the people of IIT Madras

The admission process was fair just like any other government exam. One suggestion I would like to give is about the syllabus of the JEE exam where I believe adding questions on topics of each broader division of branches (courses offered) and making the score in that topic mandatory to choose that branch helps students to get accustomed to their chosen branch in no time and can also help students realise whether are they interested in that course or not which would be very much helpful for them preventing them from suffering later. And the other thing is that Hostel fee in our institute is mandatory for everyone though they belong to the economically backward sections or reserved category.