
What Students Say
Likes
- Faculty, highly motivated, helpful and knowledgeable bunch of professors who love their subjects religiously.
- Infrastructure (labs, libraries, classrooms) are all well maintained, upgraded periodically.
- Curriculum provides you with enough knowledge on core subjects which will brick a solid foundation for aerospace engineering.
Dislikes
- Lack of focus on hands on activities and competitions.
- Curriculum may get better with inclusion of more project and practical based courses
- Exams could have been more application based rather than plain theory
Course Curriculum Overview
Curriculum is vast and provides a decent idea of how the aerospace industry will be and what does it demand of an engineer. The curriculum is revised every 4 years and upgraded to suit the industrial requirement and advancement in the technology. Aerospace is a multidisciplinary field being an amalgamation of mechanical, civil, electrical, electronics, computer science etc. so you need to be strong at the basics
Internships Opportunities
I have had opportunities at organisations like HAL, NAL, ISRO, DRDO some of my friends also did their internships at Skyroot, Bellatrix etc. only thing is that you'll have to reach out to the organizations on your own. Professors do help but you gotta be really good in order to get the professors to help you with it. Also one can carry out projects at IITs too.
Placement Experience
50% of the students don't sit for placements, those who do leave their jobs after a year or so and opt for higher studies or change their stream of work. The IT jobs are plenty but are not very fulfilling and have little scope of growth. You become eligible in 6th semester I guess I remember my friends from CSE got job after 6th semester. There are a lot of good companies offering packages as high as 24 lacs, 50 lacs, 60 lacs and such. I think last year Amazon offered the highest package. My plan had always been to go for master's since Aerospace requires specialization and a lot of study to work in a renowned organization in or outside India.
Fees and Financial Aid
The basic for my batch was INR 25000/yr which has now been increased to INR 350000/yr. However, if you perform good in AEEE then it can be brought down. There are basically 4 slabs with slab 1 being the lowest possible and slab 4 being the basic i.e. 350000. Apart from that there are no other scholarships offered by the university.
Campus Life
They're all inactive at the moment, but one can revive them with time and effort. Involvement of professor will go a long way and it is required for the club to breathe. Only club that is actively operating is SAE which is partially funded by students. There are a lot of other activities going on in the university though like gokulashtmi, diwali, onam, Pongal, amritosavam, anokha etc. which in my opinion is more than enough to celebrate cultture. There is annual sports meet and Amrita sends their teams for footballz basketball, swimming in other competitions as well.
Hostel Facilities
One of the cleanest campuses in india, cleanest water in india too. I have no bad things to say about the hygiene or infrastructure tbh, just that the walls could have been thicker (sound travels really smooth). Food is also manageable (believe me if a guy from north whose mom cooks the best food says this then it is really manageable). No power cuts, water shortage might happen though (it's all political).
Admission
Why I chose Amrita? Well it wasn't my first choice to be honest. Since I couldn't get a decent score in my JEE Advanced and didn't want to sit in for another year I had to look for Backups. I always wanted to pursue my bachelor's in aerospace at PEC, Chandigarh but I couldn't get a rank good enough for it. And the colleges I was getting through my Mains score were obviously NITs and they didn't offer aerospace so you see how Amrita became a choice automatically. But there hasn't been a day when I regretted coming to Amrita. NIRF rankings, campus, infrastructure, curriculum.
Faculty
Amrita's aerospace department, although well established, had been having a few rough years due to teachers reaching their retirement age and, inability of the management to keep the newly appointed professors happy enough to keep them motivated. The question papers are not set to torture students at Amrita, it's the assignments, exams are the easier part of the academics, Class notes are really important and most of the stuff asked in exams will have answers in class notes itself.
Night Life
No nightlife whatsoever outside the hostel but inside the hostel? It's Las Vegas kinda fun going on, Maggi at 3 am, movies to pull all nighters, ghost stories etc. it's really fun if you have the right people to enjoy with. Hostel doors open at 5 am and close by 10:30 pm. Famous hangout places? Um main canteen, main playground, music room, other places here and there youllfind on your own. Outside campus, I'm not sure cuz I had my weekends in Kerala mostly
Other Applied Colleges
NIT Trichy | Bachelor of Technology [B.Tech] (Mechanical Engineering)
I always wanted to go for Aerospace Engineering and NITs don't offer that so I thought it's better to get into a private institution right after 12th than taking a gap year to prepare for JEE Advanced again. My experience with JEE advanced wasn't good cuz
Chandigarh University - [CU] | Bachelor of Engineering [BE] (Aerospace Engineering)
The subject was newly introduced in this university and the university itself was new and I just found that Amrita was better in aerospace research and it actuall was so I just went there
Manipal Institute of Technology - [MIT] | Bachelor of Technology [B.Tech] (Aeronautical Engineering)
The fee for the program was a bit too much and I read reviews about the college culture and the decorum inside the college and just decided not to go there
Madras Institute of Technology- [MIT] | Bachelor of Engineering [BE] (Aeronautical Engineering)
I got selected in this college too and honestly there was nothing wrong with the campus or the curriculum but I just didn't want to go to Chennai, I couldn't bare the heat and humidity there
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