IISER Mohali : another home with love and science

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.

The fees in the colleges are increasing continiously due to poor policies of the government. The cost of survivng in academia for a middle class person has became very difficult and it keeps increasing. The cost of each semster is from 50k to around 60k, which differs in every semester. The significant scholarships are INSPIRE which provide around 80k per year. Also reliance foundation and other scholarships give few lakh as scholarship. Financial aid for sc/st student are avaliable in the campus. But any job or stipend is not avaliable for studnets during their course works.

The whole campus is very lively and continious. The anual fest of IISERM, 'insomnia' is held usually on month of Spetember in even spring semster. It is a 3 day long fest with all kind of games, celebrations, comptetetions. But even without it the campus is filled with all kind of celebrations from onam to saraswati puja. the bhangra night to prom dance night. Battle of bands to inter batch competetion. The celebration of the huge cultural diversity keep students engage is all kind of activity. Students are encouraged to participate in yoga and sports by the active team of iiserm sports department. The studnets could be seen playing vollyball or basketball even on the late night on the campus.

The rooms in IISERM is provided with 2 almirah and cupboard. A table and chair, a bed with fan, lam and a beautiful bed lamp. It's a residential campus so students are not alowed to stay outside of the campus without serious medical condition. The food is served by Student run mess which has great quality and food are choosen by student committe and suggestions. The hotel rooms are provided with affordable prices and there's no problem of power or water cut. Washing Machine and lifts are there to make life easier with RO+UV water supply.

Right now the students are only eligible for admission thorugh IAT exam. And they can apply for admission directly through the IAT website, and after booking seat then can register for the college in the link sent to mail by the dean of academics of IISERM. There is reservation for the SC, ST and OBCs. They also get benifit of less fee. The admission process could be easier with less lengthy forms and data could be directly collected from our admit card of the exams. Previously studnet could take admission through JEE Adv and KVPY too. The difficulty of these exams are moderate to hard.

IISER Mohali has one the best faculty in India. There are 97 faculty memeber from 6 different departments. and around 977 students, so the faculty to student ratio is 10 and one of the most significant among research institutes. Most of the proffesor has history of researching in internationally recognised lab or university around the globe. We have faculty of particle physicist from CERN to shanti swarup bhatnagar prize winner. All of the proffesors are well known faces of the leading research in not only India but world. The proffesors are famous to be very interactive and friendly here, they allow us to visit their lab and office more than official hours and interact very frequently. They guide us in understanding what;s right for our future research and work.