IISER PUNE Comprehensive review with insights.

The IISER Pune BS course builds a strong foundation in science, fostering critical thinking and hands-on research skills. In first three semester you would be learning all subject of Science like physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and environmental science. From 4th semester you chooseparticular subjects in which you want to do your major and minor , culminating in a final-year research project. Though comprehensive, the curriculum could improve by incorporating more industry-oriented skills like computational science and data analysis. Exams are well-timed but challenging, requiring conceptual understanding over memorization.

The college is reserch oriented and promote natural sciences, so you will not find any industry related internship . The students do reserch here and students do internship here but reserch oriented, students do internship in the college itself or go to other University like Iisc bangalore or IITs for internship. Here proffesor will guide you and help you regarding internships.

The course fees per year for general and obc students is 80,000 and for sc/st/pwd is extremely low around 25,000. The fees remain same across course. The scholarship are of 2 type 1) through National Scholarship Portal , from which you can get your tution fees back. 2) Merit base scholarship , the most popular here is INSPIRE Scholarship, students who are in top 1 percentile of their class 12 board and under 10000 rank in jee mains and jee advanced.

The course starts in August and first semester ends in last week of November, in December there is winter break than from January second semester starts and it ends in last week of april. In month of may,june and july for 2.5-3 months you have a summer break. In campus there are no fest or tech fest conduct here. In library you will find books towards science in large amount. You will also find reserch paper publish by students studying here . There is also a web portal of library where you can found almost all books digital version. The classroom are highly technological, you have camers , projectors and screening helping students . There are sports facilities both indoor and outdoor. Every year in month of December there is a sports compition take place between all 7 iisers and iisc bangalore. There are many students run social groups and club are there. There any group in which you teach school students who cone from under privileged background snd csnt afford good level of education.

There are 3 hostels, 2 for boys and 1 for girls. Every student who get admission here get a hostel room alloted. In room are of 2 sharing, there are 2 beds,2 cupboard, 2 study table with lamp,2 chair,1fan and extra shelf for storage. There is 4 common bathroom in every floor. The fees is 4000 for hostel per year. The mess year has not senester wise fees . You have to pay for every meal you take , from my experience the average food monthly cost is around 4500-5000. The food taste and quality is surprisingly very better than other government colleges. The variety of food is good you will get both veg and non veg.

I chose IISER Pune over NIT Surat because of its dedicated focus on pure sciences and research. While NIT Surat offers a strong engineering program, IISER Pune’s interdisciplinary curriculum and research-driven approach align better with my career goals in science. I am here surrounded by a passionate people about discovery, it was a major factor. IISER’s labs, faculty, emphasis on critical thinking truly inspire me, while its environment is very reserch oriented which is essential for my growth in the sciences.

In each course there is 1 main faculty and 6-7 Ta's. Ta's are actually students how are doing phd here they take tutorial and doubt clearing session every week. The faculty are quite approachable you can email them and most of time you will get response within 48 hrs. In terms of naatural sciences the course curriculum is very relevant. About exams there are 2 main exams in 1 semester m8d sem and end sem both carry around 70-80% weightage overall and rest 20-30% are of quiz that happens weekly or 2-3 times in semester according to faculty. Around 10-20% students fails in exams.

There is 1 night cafeteria, which opens at 10 pm and close at 5 am. You can get tea,coffee, Maggie, sandwich and some snacks. The library timings are from 8 am to 11 pm from Monday to Saturday. There are multiple study rooms and discussion rooms fir over night studyies. There is not timings restrictions for hostel or for campus . You can enter at any time and leave at any time. You will find people all over night in campus walking, talking and studying. There are not many hang out spots but at late night students hangout at cafeteria or near sport campus .