What Students Say
Likes
- The infrastructure - being the old and heritage college, St. Stephen's College is surprisingly modern in respects to being a modern campus
- classrooms equipped with modern projectors and screens and so on, hence making up for a comprehensive learning environment.
- Overall it makes up for the best place for an all round and holistic development of a student.
Dislikes
- The college campus is OLD and you will feel it as there are certain parts of the campus that could use some renovation as amenities
Course Curriculum Overview
Being a English Literature student, the course, as prescribed by the university, is comprehensive and detailed, the curriculum provides various opportunities for students to furthet their interest in the subject and move ahead in their careers. There is an abundance of readin material and course material which really does help in understanding the texts and related concepts in an in-depth way. The faculty at the college do make some of the most boring texts into interesting lessons by engaging us in various assingments and even extra curricular activities. The course ranges all the way from ancient greek epicsto moder cinema and literature. Exams are held at the end of each semester once in Dec/Jan and once again in May/June. They are midly difficult but a thorough understanding of the texts makes it easy.
Placement Experience
Various MNCs visit the college every year and it does provide very good opportunites for the students to get placed and get a fair enough starting positions. The average package is around 8-10LPA.
Fees and Financial Aid
The fee annually for a non-resident student (day scholar) is around 45k, which is to be paid in two instalments one in each semester. Resident members do have to pay extra obviously as they live and eat there. While being expensive the college does offer a number of scholarships and financial aid throughout the year on the basis of merit in order to help those with weak financial backgrounds. Most of the scholarships covers all of the fees including the fees of residence.
Campus Life
The college is an inclusive and safe place where people from all over the coutry with various skill sets and diverse backgrounds come together, it provides for an excellent opportunity to make real and irreplacable friends and social connections. Most of the societies have events year round which provides for a packed and enriching college life most of the annual (nig) fests happen in the months of winter from February to April. The college library has abundance of reading materials and books, thousands of them at least, along with that the college does also provide e library access to a bunch of sites. The college has excellent sports facilities we have a dedicated sports centre including a football ground as well as a separate cricket ground, basketball court, gym, badminton court, table tennis and much more.
Admission
All admissions to the college now happen through the CUET exam conducted by NTA, but as it is a christian minority college, 50% of the seats are reserved for the christian students, this along with the fact that there are very lmited number of seats makes the cut off very high. For UR(non-christian) candidates the cut off is usually around 780-790+ for arts courses and for sciences it is a bit low, the college does offer reservations for SCs AND STs and hence the cut offs for them is relatively lower but it is still 700+ in most cases.
Faculty
The faculty members here are very well qualified and learned and often present genuine interest and passion in their feilds of study, the average student to teaher ratio is 1:15 as often the lecture and tutorials are taken by separate members of faculty and hence the teachers are able to focus on the students individually and on a personal level. Most of the faculty are in one way or the other former students of the college or have associated with the college for a very long time and hence it allings with the rich stephanian culture. The teachers are very approachable be it a junior faculty mener or the HOD they are always open to discuus, talk and enage with the students.
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