IIT Kharagpur and Life there

The robotics and mechatronics are the future in the tech world and mechanical engineering is an integral part of these tech domains. The training here will encourage all of us to make significant contributions in this field. There are mechatronics labs also in the curriculum and embedded systems can also be taken as elective which has many real world applications. The areas of improvemennt relies upon the fact that the teaching could be more practical and real life application based rather than just based on marks and gradings. The exams are quite good and will test throughout your understanding of the concepts of the subjects.

There is an internship at the end of 3rd yesr and from 4th year students get PPOs and get placed in various colleges. Almost every tech and other comapanies visit our college ranging from google amazon to reliance , adani industries.The Highest package of mechanical engineering ranges from 80-100 lacs and the median package is 18-19lacs. The percentage of students getting placed is about 75 percent whereas many other get to higher studies or UPSC. I am aiming for higher studies after graduation.

The fees include Tuition Hostel and mess fees and some overheads. The fees for general category is 149000 including all expenses. There are several fees benefits for EWS category and tuition fees for general is 100000 whereas tuition fees for family whose annual income is less than 500000 there are some reductions. HMCFees is 36500 and there are no fees reduction in HMCFEES.

There are many fests organised. Annual fest Springfest is organized in the spring semester in the month of january whereas techanical fest Kshitij is also organized in january. The books and journals are availabe throughout the semester. There are many clubs and socities in the college. There are more than enough opportunities to explore in the campus life. The campus has a vibrant student community and many student run organizations are also there in the college. There are many sports tournament such as GC between the halls and Inter IITS.

The hostels are allocated by the HMC department. Hostels can be singly,double or triple accomodation type. Each hostel has a mess allocated to it. The quality of food is great and sanitation is also good. Taste may not be very good. There is no separate procedure for hostel registration. It is done along with admission. In the 2nd year hostel is changed and it remains the same for 2nd,3rd and 4th year.

The IITs are the best we can get in our nation. I did not apply to any other colleges other than IITs. And I had confirmed admission in the same branch from IIT Kanpurs and all other lower IITs. I was also getting other branches at IIT Bombay and Delhi. No i did not get rejections from any college. The admission procedure follows after the commencement of JEE Advance and after announcement of the result based on the rank you get in JEE. The Josaa Counselling process is initiated and all qualified students sit in the counselling and based on opening and closing ranks, we get our college allocated.

The faculty to student ratio for undergraduates is 21:1. The faculities are approachable and you can connect with them anytime through your official email. There are some faculities that are very much cooperative and will help you in every possible way to achieve your goals. There are some faculities who are much too concerned about attendance and unintentionally they become a burden for the students. There are Mid_sem and End_sems exam and two class test. Generally the marks distribution is 30 for mid sems , 50 for end sems and 20 for two class tests. It also depends upon professors. The grading can be absolute or relative. The bottom 5 percent fails the course in case of relative grading and in absolute generally those who obtain less than 33 or 35 fails.