What Students Say
Likes
- The campus is great, 250 acres around. It is still developing but is mostly already fine. The curriculum is nice and research focused. It also focuses on student's overall development and helps building a scientific mind while also being conscious.
- Was quite smooth to fit in here. The seniors are nice. There is no ragging scene and a strict anti-ragging cell.
- As this is a research institute, IISER Bhopal does not have a significant number of students getting placed into companies from natural sciences. However, there is a good number of Ph.D. placements made from here.
Dislikes
- There is no night canteen and both the market complex and everything to shop closes before 12am. only vending machine left in some hostels and that too empty at night mostly.
- many students come here choosing this as a backup which ruins the quality of peers sometimes.
Course Curriculum Overview
I wanted to pursue Research as my career. The professors here are some of the best in the world. The teaching is International level. Courses are designed inspired by World's top univs. Lab facilities are amazing. Even the undergraduate lab has so many high cost equipments and institute is ready to spend as much needed to produce good output in students' studies.
Internships Opportunities
you can apply under any company or institute you wish to for scholarship till they provide value in your career, institute is open to it institute has student development council, which as well is run by students, who develop an internship compendium by researching.. so thag is there too
Placement Experience
4th and 5th semester students can get ready for placements. There are no such companies actively participating directly. Its a kind of informal communication that the institute makes to companies and vice versa. Placement cell is not much active here. But the reputation helps you get a good deal yourself when you reach out.
Fees and Financial Aid
Tution fee is waived off for SC/ST and for low income students on producing relevant documents. *Fees breakdown per semester is as follows : Tution fees : ?36700 User charges : ?9700 Hostel and Dining Facilities : ?6700 *Scholarships : INSPIRE on eligibility, other scholarships if you're able to claim them, institute scholarship for low income there is no merit based scholarship offered by the institute itself
Campus Life
Science fest, Tech fest, Cultural fest, Art fest, Festivals like Diwali, Holi, Mahuwa, Chath Pooja, Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi, Navratri... and so on, everything is celebrated greatly. Classrooms are equipped with high quality speakers and screen and projector and professor teaches on their tablet and that is presented on the board. But there are these classrooms and also the the chalk and board ones, according to whatever suits the teaching style of professors. Almost all sports are available here like basketball, football, cricket, badminton, lawn tennis, table tennis, squash, kabaddi, kho-kho, volleyball etc.. other than this, there are so many clubs formed and managed by students like dance club, art club, music club, decoration club, astronomy club, chemistry club, ecology club, debate society etc..
Hostel Facilities
there is cupboard, cot, windows and a power socket in the room. meals are nice and edible, not trash and menu changes every month and consists of variety affordable living outside campus is mot allowed
Admission
I applied for IISc but couldn't get it. I cleared JEE Main and Advanced and was getting good engineering colleges as well but wanted to pursue basic sciences. I was getting good pvt colleges as well. Overall, my interests were aligned to research.
Faculty
Professors are open to everything. They help students in every kind of doubts. If they're not free, they assign their TAs to solve them and they're just there to make you fully enlightened but you gotta choose to approach them. the ratio is good in later year when you choose your specialisation. In first year its around 400 students because all disciplines are taught together. Exam pattern is Quiz 1, Midsem, Quiz 2, Endsem and there are two semesters in a year. You study everything in first year then choose three premajor subjects in second year and then choose major subject in third year. I'm willing to choose Physics but am still exploring and open to choose any other if I get inclined towards it. But I'm particularly fascinated by physics a lot.
Night Life
Great Gym There is CCD and ICH and a Nescafe and other than this a canteen named ideation hut and an amul kiosk. hostel entry timings are 5am to 1am and other than that you'll have to make entry in the register. campus timings are the same as well. Bhopal is a beautiful city and has everything you can think of except beaches lol.. mountains, lakes, markets, malls, karting, boating etc
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