What Students Say
Likes
- The course was structured really well, and its designed in a way that you have the option of pursuing other things as well or deeply pursuing your course
- The campus is really beautiful and has wonderful resources, like the library, and there are beautiful waterfalls as well. It even has a good hostel facility
- The staff take regular feedbacks after every fractal about our professors and we get to rate them. They take this rating seriously.
Dislikes
- The transport facility is really bad. They provide non AC buses and we struggle during summer
- Its hard for day scholars to travel to and from the campus everyday. Based on your location, the travel time is different but it takes me 2 hours everyday to and fro
- The mess food isnt that good sometimes, and gives me an upset stomach
Course Curriculum Overview
Its really relevant to whatever job requirement is there as of now. They update the course often too in order to meet the needs of today and focus a lot on real world applications. The course is highly qualitative. As i said, we dont have a lot of exams, but a lot of projects and presentations which improve our oratory skills as well
Internships Opportunities
The internship opportunities are many and only come rolling in after 2nd year is over. A lot of companies come and partner with the university for internships and some projects can be done from home as well.
Placement Experience
Campus placements starts from the last semester. There are many placements and the lowest package is 4Lakhs per annum. Since I'm still in my second year, i dont know too much about the placements, but they do get placed well. Some of the placements were in Delloite and JP Morgan. My plans after completing my 3rd year is choosing to do an honours in the university itself (there is an option), and then going for a job in the campus placement
Fees and Financial Aid
I pay 3 lakhs per year and this is not including the mess, transport or hostel fees. Hostel fees is around 1lakh, and transport fees is around 30,000 per semester. They take 10,000 for the mess food (including all meals). For any other immersion programme, they take extra fees for that. The cornell immersion in the first year was 10 lakhs for 3 weeks and the singapore immersion is around 3 lakhs. All of these immersion prices are including all charges (flight, hotel, tuition, etc) For scholarship, they give scholarship for the top 10% gpa in every course. So they pick 10% in Digital technologies, Economics and finance, and Computational business analytics and give them a scholarship of 75,000 for only one semester. If the grades drop then they dont get scholarship for the next semester
Campus Life
Day scholars dont have a lot of options to participate in events or clubs since they happen in the evening- night times (unless you can stay back). But there are a LOT of club options, like the music, dance, aerospace, etc etc clubs to choose from, and are conducted by the students themselves. The library is also huge and has a lot of books, educational and novels alike. They have a number of sitting areas and discussion rooms as well. Annual festivals are Airo and Aether. Airo being a sports fest and Aether being a cultural fest. They usually happen around February Theres also a swimming pool and gym, and theyre free to use by any student. They have good facilities
Admission
I actually went around to different colleges to see how the campus is, but i ONLY likes Mahindra University. So i didn't even apply to other universities. I only applied to MU and i got in. The admission process was really simple. We had to fill and application form, and after doing so we'll have an interview with some of the faculty including the dean. If we get through the interview, then we get through the admission. The interview was 5 mins long and not that complex. They asked general knowledge questions.
Faculty
The faculty are really good amd accessible too. We use outlook to reach out to them, and they respond within a few minutes sometimes. They're really friendly and answer doubts well. It depends from professor to professor though. Some are really friendly and some are plain rude. Although the ratio of rude professors to friendly professors are 1:5, so you just need to know how to deal with them. Mahindra barely has any exams after the first year- it becomes more project heavy. Their exams are so easy that if someone doesnt pass it basically means they didn't attend any classes and didnt study at all.
Interview Experience
We had an interview where we had a panel of faculty interview us including the dean. They first asked me my interests and then asked me questions about that. I told them i like music, so they asked me about the impact of naatu naatu on the world and my thoughts about it. I didn't prepare for this to be honest, i just answered to the best of my ability.
Night Life
Since I'm a day scholar i dont hang out around at night. The hostelers have a curfew time of 11pm, and must be in their rooms by then. The wardens lock the hostels from the inside so that no one goes out. All day scholars must leave the campus by 6pm, unless they have meetings or club activities. Gyms also have timings that update regularly, so its not fixed. For library, it closes by 10 pm as well.
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