Inside Look: A Student perspective of IEM

The course is quite relevant to today's market.The college administration has added a lot of extra subjects like aptitude, english, economics, managment, history and civics on top of the AICTE prescribed curriculum to keep the students well rounded and their options open. While it does increase the academic pressure it is manageable. They have included matlab in the last few years which is a fairly new software and has extensive uses in various fields and is notably used by ISRO. They could improve the curriculum by giving students optional courses like ML or DL or prompt engineering instead of making it mandatory for them to study history& civics. The frequency of exams is an area they need to work on in my opinion. The exams are conducted too frequently and the teachers don't get the time to complete all the modules.

IEM offers in campus placements. They have a very good record of placements with nearly all its graduates getting placed and the have been doing it consistently since the turn of the century. Students are eligible to be placed from the 6th semester. The average package is 6-7 LPA.

Since it is an Engineering college the fees is taken per semester. The per semester fees for the 2023-27 batch is 85000/- so the yearly comes to 1,70,000/-. While admission they take 25,000 as caution money. The trend for the past years is that the semester fees is increased for every upcoming batch by 10,000/- so for the 2022-26 batch the fees was 75000/- but it was increased to 85000/- for our batch and further increased for the current first year to 95000/-

The campus is not that impressive if compared to most engineering colleges. There are no playgrounds except a basketball court. The building sometimes feels cramped during breaks and after college gets over. In terms of fests and events, there are a plethora of events happening every week. There are various student chapters and clubs one can be a part of such as the IEEE or the GDG. The library is open 24/7 and you can get all course books from there. All classrooms have projectors, speakers and microphones. The Gymkhana is the most prominent student run initiative in the college.

I chose this college over the others since I wanted to stay in the city. I did get into KGEC and I visited the campus but I did not like what I saw so I decided to go to a college in city. I chose IEM specifically because it is the best private and the 2nd best college(after JU) that you can get from WBJEE. The admission process is fairly simple, you just have to fill out the form, bring supporting documents that you will be asked to bring and pay the first sem fees + caution money. You can get an admission through WBJEE, IemJEE. The prime reason for choosing IEM is its placement record and its consistency.

As mentioned earlier most of the faculties are quite good. All professors have a good understanding of their subject matter and the good ones convey it in a simple understandable manner. We have multiple teachers for the same subject teaching different modules thus the faculty to student ratio is quite good. All faculties are approachable and warm, they try to inculcate a good relation with the students. We can call or text our teachers without hesitation. There are 2 midsem theory examinations, 2 midsem lab examinations, one endsem lab exam and one endsem exam each semester. The midsem examinations both lab and theory are easy and can be aced with a few hours of preperation. The final lab examination is mid difficulty as you have to go through the entire semester's assignments but if they have been done regularly, it is relatively easy. The endsem theory papers are mid to high difficulty depending on the subject and student. The course curriculum is quite relevant to today's day and age.