College-Mania!

Course curriculum is pretty relevant. I did my B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, so all the Programming language subjects had their respective lab subjects which made things learn practically too. We had three internal exams for every subject per semester before the final semester exams. We had internal exams for labs too. Difficulty level of the exams were average if you covered most of the part of the syllabus. Out of thr box questions were rarely asked.

Placement opportunities in the college are pretty good. Students become eligible for campus placements from the end of 6th semester. The companies which came for placements during our time were TCS, Infosys, IBM, Accenture, HP Inc, Razorpay etc. Average package was Rs 350000 per year and highest was Rs 800000 per year. Mostly the job profiles offered was Software Engineer.

During my year of admission, i.e 2017, the college fees was 75000 rupees per semester for students who did not get any scholarship (it was called management quota). Scholarships were present for only students who were from Karnataka. Hostel fees varied from 55000 to 65000 based on the hostel availability. The best hostel was the NRI boys hostel for boys. The girls hostel is inside the college campus but the boys hostels are outside the campus. Students can take student loans from banks for the college fees. The college accepts it. Campus employment facilities are above average. I myself got an internship opportunity with HP Inc during 7th Semester. The internship was of 6 months and they paid me 20000 rupees per month.

Festivals and college fests were celebrated every year in the college. The International students in our college held the SISA fest every Spring. Technical fests like Hackathons were also held in the college. Sports related activities were hardly held in the college. But extra curricular activities like Quiz, Dance Competitions, Singing competitions were frequently held.

I was accommodated to the NRI Boys hostel. The fees was Rs 65000 per year (meals included). I think it was pretty reasonable. The NRI boys hostel is about 3 km away from the main college campus. We were picked up and dropped by the hostel bus. The hostel provided four meals in a day: Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks and Dinner. Breakfast is available from 7 AM to 9:30 AM, lunch is available from 1 PM to 3 PM, snacks from 6 PM to 7 PM and dinner from 8 PM to 9:30 PM. The menu was pretty versatile for all the meals. Chicken was served twice a week (Wednesday and Sunday dinner) and we got egg for dinner once a week. Food quality was good but the taste overall was not consistent which is expected from hostel food. The rooms were cleaned twice a week. We had a attached bathroom in every room. Three students stayed in each room with each getting a wardrobe for keeping cloths and books.

To be eligible for the course, the college required an average percentage of 50 or above for Physics, Chemistry and Maths combined. I did not have to take any entrance exam to get admission into the college. For Karnataka students, a percentage of seats are reserved. The admission process was a little tedious which could be improved.

All of the faculty members were either M.Sc pass out or M.Tech pass out. Few teachers' teaching methods were effective. The teachers taught well by showing demos in the laboratories. Teachers encourage students to ask them questions. Most of the teachers were approachable. If a student has a doubt, they can approach the teacher during break.