Experience of SPAD as a planner

Since I learned about this course while filling up form of JEE. The concept of working at a city level fascinated me. Plus the carrier option I saw was pretty good there forever I opt this course and to be honest I don't regret my choice the course is very relevant and is actually the scales we work on is pretty important. Every sem we learn a different scale and dive into different aspects of city planning and development. Currently we are working on a regional scale. It is very important to understand what we need and what data we don't. So as far the course relevance, it's pretty good. The course can improve by adding more newer approach with the technology. Every year the course is getting advanced indeed but integration in the theory is important. The exams here happen per semester. Exam here is not that hard. Internals are important, doing assignments on time is important along with the regular reviews teaches u more than enough.

We get jobs offered from multiple firms different each year. The jobs roles are mainly GIS specialist, assistant planners, etc. I have interned in WBHIDCO and INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS PLANNING CENTRE, each for 6 weeks. We generally work on sectors like transportation, urban and rural, environmental and also work in regional level. We also get jobs as policymakers but reaching that stage takes time. With experience the growth in this field is exponential.

There are two internships (mandatory). One in the end of 2nd year another in the end of 3rd year. Both of them are of 6 weeks. It's all on us where we want to do and we select our best preference then college sends out letter of recommendation and then and if accepted good otherwise college will send u to DDA and other government offices. There are placements after bachelors but it's recommended to complete masters before doing job. It increases your market value exponentially

The tution fee here is similar as IIT, which is indeed high. It's lesser for EWS and reservation similar. The hostel fee here is arround 24000 and mess fee being around 30000(yearly). It is pretty affordable but getting it is hard. The hostel restrictions are very minimum and the culture is pretty good. We got a common courtyard and mess in boys hostel. There very few scholarship options, for masters u have the Gate Scholarship. The placement cell is pretty good and the allumni are good and getting jobs with average package is easy.

The campus life is pretty good. Indeed it lacks infrastructure but the college experience in hostel is pretty memorable. The college got countries largest library for the specific department ( architecture and planning) and considered the best. We have our annual sports fest known as athlos we also participate in conventions hosted by NASA and Nosplan and we also take part in MNIT sports and Interspa. We got our college fest UTOPIA and for the freshers MINI UTOPIA. We got 16 societies like drama, music, gaming, fashion, etc which hosts multiple events.

This course only takes JEE qualified students. There is a 2nd paper of JEE conducted specifically for this. The cutoffs for this university is too high, around 200 is the cutoff for generals. Me being a general and my rank was around 180 so got in the 2nd round. The JEE examination happens twice.

The faculty members are extremely qualified and are very experienced. Even the junior faculties are helpful. Our students to faculty ratio is pretty good of 1:7. Every faculty over here are very helpful and approachable. They are intimidating at times. But since our course includes a major portion of its project as group, it teaches us how an real firm or an office will be. Interaction here with others students, seniors and facilities here is very important