What Students Say?
Likes
- Cultural activities keep happening whether its from the department or college level. Theres always something to do and clubs to join.
- The seniors are really friendly and somewhat inclusive according to my experience there's no case of ragging and such.
Dislikes
- We have 3 internals one for each month and then an external. When the internals are conducted there are 2 subjects per day with no holiday between which makes it difficult to score really good in all the subjects evenly.
- The hostel is not worth paying so much for, it doesn't have so many amenities and the warden doesn't take his job seriously. The food is ok though but that's it, they put 4 people in a room and make it cramped.
Course Curriculum Overview
The present curriculum has a lot of room for improvement. There are relevant subjects being taught to us that'll help us greatly in the real world companies but there are many irrelevant subjects as well. There are subjects like Social Connectivity & Responsibility (SCR) which isn't taken seriously and made us do activities unrelated to the course like planting a sapling, or going to a food Street and taking pictures there etc, there are subjects like Biology as well which have no connection whatsoever to our course and doesn't help us in any way to apply for real world instances. Like I said before, during internals 2 subjects are conducted per day which is too much for the students. Gaps could be given in between exams and more subjects can be introduced that are relevant to our course.
Placement Experience
The placements currently, in my college and as per my knowledge other tech colleges are not that great. In my college we receive placement training from 5th semester and are eligible for interviews from the 6th semester since we're under the VTU board, its compulsory for the students to have an internship in the 7th or 8th semester. Some of the companies that have visited our campus are Nokia, LG, Bosch, HashedIn, Adobe, Maersk etc. As of last year in my department (Information Science), there were 305 job offers and 140 internship offers. The average salary per year was 3-4 Lakhs and highest was 14.86 LPA.In the current batch of students there are very less placements as the market is not so good at a very rough estimate I can say that 10% have only been placed till now.
Loan/ Scholarship Provisions
I've taken management seat and haven't applied for any financial aid or scholarships. My fees for Information Science course(ISE) is 5.5 Lakhs per year. My friends who gave gotten in through KCET exam pay 1 Lakh every year as fees.
Campus Life
The overall campus life here is above average. There are several clubs here for people with different interests. CAT (Cultural Activity Club) for conducting college festivals and Karnataka Rajyotsava. RSC(RNS Sports Club) for conducting various sports games and inter department sports competitions as well as Marathons every year that is open for everyone including outsiders. Dhwani which is the singing club holds evening concerts every month, Aura the fashion club, Synapse and Natarang which are the hip hop and classical dance clubs respectively. There are many clubs started by students themselves as well like MUN club. Most of the fests in Bengaluru colleges are held in even semesters which are in months from October, Nov,Dec. There anre many hackathons organized as well as blood donation camps. The library was recently renovated and has been made bigger,the books are easily accessible but less in number so not available all the time. Each class has a projector+ each dep have 2-3 labs
Hostel Facilities
I stayed in hostel for an year before moving out. The room has one fan and three cots along with a cupboard for each person. 4 people are made to stay in a room which makes it pretty cramped. Theres an attached bathroom but it doesn't have hot water. If u want to take a bath you need to use the common bathrooms of the floor which gets really crowded in the morning. They don't offer laundry service from the hostel, the campus has a separate laundry person who you have to pay extra money per kg to get your clothes washed. The food is basic and decent. They provide with Breakfast lunch & dinner and only tea/milk/coffee in the evening. The menu is different everyday but repeats the next week. The warden & management are lousy and don't listen to complaints if any and try to cover the situation without doing any work. The fees when I was there was 1.5L but it's increased to 1.45L per year which is not at all worth it. The PGs in the area are much better in terms of cost & living.
Admission
I didn't score that well in my entrance exam and got this college through management seat. I chose this college because compared to others it has a good infrastructure and the campus life is good. There are rules here but not so strict that makes a student hate the college. Placements also are good(not the best but still manageable) and importantly it was in our budget. The hostel is present inside the campus so there's no issue of travelling from the hostel to the campus in the morning or evening. Its in a quite developed area so there are many amenities present nearby including grocery stores, pharmacies and hospitals all in walking distance. The admission process seemed quite ok since mine was through Management and it got done in a day without us having to come back again and again. The exams accepted for my course are JEE,KCET,COMEDK the most popular one that students get in here is KCET followed by COMEDK.
Faculty
We have 3 internal exam one for each month and in the 4th month we have our externals. In the middle we have 2 lab internals and a final lab external before the theory external. During internal exams we have 2 subjects' exams per day one in the morning and one in the afternoon. There is not a single day's gap between the exams which makes it feel rushed and not be able to perform equally in every subject. Many of The faculty members from my experience are nice in class but not so nice when you have extra doubts & you go to the staffroom. There are a few teachers like Hema ma'am, Aishwarya ma'am who explain willingly outside class but teachers like Janardhan sir are rude outside class and seem offended to clear doubts.
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