What Students Say
Likes
- Faculty is highly qualified and are friendly towards the students and ensure that the learning environment is approachable.
- Crowd of the college is a blend of varieties of identities in terms of people from different backgrounds and mostly are good and helpful and do not have a snooty attitude
- Hostel facilities are good, in terms of space, rooms are small and are double sharing but in terms of food quality it's far better than PGs and tiffin services and other hostels.
Dislikes
- College campus is comparatively smaller, and there is a lack of good quality infrastructure especially for sports
- Principal is strict and therefore discipline needs to be maintained in terms of attending classes, behaviour within the campus, etc.
- Most likely hostel will be dismantled very soon.
Course Curriculum Overview
The curriculum of economics honours is highly quantitative and it has a very high mathematical orientation and such rigorous coursework requires students to devote good amount of time to academics as well and attending the classes essentially becomes very much important. The curriculum caters to teaching relevant things that can be essential for securing jobs and/or pursue further academics in the field. The curriculum is burdened with several subjects such as VAC, AECC, and SEC. They help in boosting and enhancing the grades overall but they mostly have proven to be irrelevant. The structure is that there are two internals depending upon teacher's wish mostly of 12 marks each and 6 marks for attendance. . This makes it 30 marks Additionally, 40 marks is reserved for tutorials which is mostly practicals or assignments. The course structure is as follows: 3 core subjects 1 ge AEC, VAC AND SEC
Placement Experience
Students sit for placements from the fifth semester onwards. Majorly placements are focused for students pursuing economics and commerce, comp. Sci. Hons. course, however courses of math hons., etc., also get placed at good companies. Some big names come to Hansraj including LEK, Goldman Sachs, BCG, BCN, Alvarez nd marsal, DeShaw JPMorgan, etc., the highest package is by DeShaw of 22LPA this year, and the avg. package is about 8 lakhs. There a. Lot of offers made students can check out the placement cell of Hansraj College for exact details on Instagram handles. My core plan is to sit for placements.
Fees and Financial Aid
There are several scholarship s for people belonging to different backgrounds such as some based on income, some based on caste, some are sports scholarship and private scholarship s are also provided by dell and reliance etc .
Campus Life
The annual fest is good nd lasts for 3 days within which all the societies of the college participate with celebrity singer coming in on the last day, in addition of it, the college has different events here and there which are conducted by college societies. For school students societies is like clubs for example, debate society is where people interested in creating come, similary others for others. The library is nice and has a lot of available books and are easily issued to the kids however the seating capacity seems to be less during peak exam timings. Hopefully, only a few colleges in du have AC facility nd Hansraj is one of it, all classes additionally also have projector access to it. Extracurricular activities are humungous and are catered by different societies. You can look up to your interested activity society on website or even Instagram as well. Sports activities are also good nd we even have an indoor badminton court which is not there in many colleges. Except for academics life on campus is societies so yeah they bring engagement within peerss, also all college societies are student led and have an assigned faculty as their convenor.
Hostel Facilities
The hostel facility is really good. The area of rooms is quite small but as time passes by students do get acquainted to the limited space and really enjoy the wholesome experience. Hostel facilities are quite elite and only have around one seat per category per course and yes allocation is via merit and you get hostel only for a year and then again merit lists are out on college website. Hostel application open soon when induction is done. The food at Hansraj hostel is literally incomparable to the nearby PGs, it is extremely good like it has lot of varieties that serve all cuisine styles from North to South and we have food thrice with dessert each day at dinner. The food is served in a mess. The room has two study Tables for both the inmates and one door shelf for clothes etc., and a common double door slab for books etc., additionally, the hostel also hosts a lot of tournaments in itself such as volleyball tournaments, etc., so in totality a very good nurturing environment and exposure and in short if you do get it take it.
Admission
For eco honors Mathematics is compulsory (applied and core both work) One language subject Additionally, two more domains. Cuet is the entrance exam Easily available on cuet website Application fee varies each year with around 1200-1500. Exam timings vary acc to subjects ranging from 45 min to 1 hr. There are no cut off released Once the results are out, students are expected to fill the preference sheet and college get allocated accordingly. Roughly for top colleges, the cut off for general category was 780+ for St. Stephen's 775+ for SRCC 765+ for Hindu 750+ for Hansraj. For reservation cayegories esp. In eco there's a huge disparity for OBSs you can get SRCC at 720 or even less and according ly the cut offs are low for EWS, SC, ST, Kashmiri Migrants etc.
Faculty
The teacher student ratio is around 1:100 for almost all courses. However, even though this number looks very large but teachers are mostly qualified and experienced enough to manage the classroom effectively and they have good attitude and do solve the students doubts and queries nicely.
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