My experience at IISER Bhopal

The curriculum is versatile, it gives student enough time to decide which field they want to go into. in first year all the students have common courses, in second year we can choose pre majors as per out wish, further in third year we have to choose Majors, this way students can slowly shortlist areas of their interest. Although i feel there should be more engineering related courses in the engineering department, which the curriculum lacks, also each sem is of just 3 months which leads to tests after a very short period of time, semesters should be longer.

Students get internships at various fields, including colleges like IIT Bombay, IIT kgp, IIT Delhi, IISc bangalore, many student also get interntional internships in institutions like Caltech etc. Mostly people go for reseach internship, cooperate internships are very low

IISER does not release offical placement data, but placements are low as most of the students go for higher education. Avg package for BS students being around 7lpa, and for BSMS students it is around 19lpa as per 2023

Semester fee is Rs 36700, Hostel fee is Rs 6700 per sem, and User charges/other fee is 9700 per sem, mess charges are around Rs 3500 per month. For first semester extra charges of rs 15000 are taken as caution money. So total yearly fee is 1,06,200 + mess charges. There are no fee waivers for SC/ST/OBC candidates, although scholarships are given on various criterias. All the Bachlors courses have similar fee structure. Inspire scholarship is provided to non droppers, on the basis of merit Realiance scholarship is also provided to candidates on the basis of merit and income.

We have an annual tech event called Armageddon held in february. We have another annual event called Singularity. There are many small scale events which keep going on thorught the year. The central library has a wide variety of books. IIISER Bhopal has the best sports facilities among all IISERs. we have multiple badminton cours, tennis cours, basketball court, both indoor and outdoor, football grounds, cricket grounds and many more sports facilites. There are many student run clubs, suiting to interests of all the individuals, ranging from EECS(Electronics and computer sci) club, Physics club, Chemistry club to Arts and litereature club, book club, photography club and so on

We have double occupancy rooms, we are given a bed, a cupboard, a lamp and a table for each person. Mess food is decent, not great, with charges being Rs 3500 per month. Registration is done at the time of admission in the college There is no PG facility in the locality

I gave JEE mains, and advance and IAT, i qualified all three of them, although i was not getting an IIT, and i was getting so called lower NITs with non circuital branches. IISER being a well knows institute for research, with iiser bhopal having engineering course as well, i decided to go for iiser as I believed i will get a better enviroment and peer group here. IISERs take admission through IISER Aptitute Test (IAT)

Faculty to student ratio is around 1:40 in first year, although in further years it gets better. I personally like Adarsh Vasista sir as he is easily approachable and he seems really interest in Physics. We have a total of 4 quizes, one midsem and end sem. two of the 4 quizes are conducted before midsem and others are conducted after midems. Difficulty levels vary from professor to professor, overall quizes are easier to score on. There is relative grading, and 75% attendance is compulsory.

There is gym within the campus, we also have CCD (Cafe coffee day) and several other resutaunts withing the campus. There are no hostel timings, but for first year students there is a 1am curfew for hostels There is a 2am curfew for entering the campus. Famous places near the campus include Upper lake in bhopal city, bibedka caves, Van vihar national park