Completely Honest and unbiased Review of A.P. Shah as a student studying for three years now

I chose this course coz data science is a very trending and growing field. I've been taught about most of the core principles of this field. I think improvement would be needed when learning about real world applications and presentations as a Data Science Professional. I feel like exams are somehow always about memorizing things rather than actually understanding which makes it really bad. Even if you understand most core principles you'll have to learn the book knowledge which isn't relevant to the field at all.

The annual fees is 1.15L there was no additional fee except the exam fee the students pay directly to Mumbai university for the exams. If u avail for EBC scholarship the tuition fee is cut half which makes it around 78K per year. The fees for EWC, ST, SC and other minorities is around 15K per year. There are also other technical scholarships available by the government but the college doesn't have any scholarship funded by the college and all are by the Maharashtra Government. I think the fee structure is good compared to other colleges offering the same course and the college facilities are very good.

there is one annual fest one tech fest every year and they're held during holiday periods. Library is awesome most books regarding the curriculum is available and u can take the books home to study as per ur flexibility u need to return books after a few days and u can take them back after it. Classrooms are well equipped great seating, great projectors and boards, Also good ACs in every classroom. Sports is very lacking their is one sports fest in december but barely anyone participates since there's no proper grounds for it. Clubs are good but most of the students don't get time to participate in club activities since the academics are already so time consuming and 75% attendance criteria.

I applied to 2 colleges LTCOE and AP Shah Institute of Technology since these were the only two with fair reputation and had Data Science in their curriculum, my first preference was LTCOE since it was nearby my home but unfortunately I wasn't able to get in the college due to their higher cutoffs I got my second college of choice. I got accepted by my CET scores but JEE scores are also valid for admission. The admission process was pretty simple, fill a few forms pay the first amount of fees and you're good to go.

faculty to student ratio depends on the Department, in my department there is a shortage of faculty currently we don't have any maths professor so a professor from another department had to teach in my department but the faculty for other subjects are abundant around 8-12 professors. Other departments have higher number of faculty. I like Prof. Darshana, Parvathy, Veena, Ujwala as they are very friendly and always there to support the students in difficulties. Some professors I've faced were not really helpful and felt like they were trying to punish me somehow for making mistakes though I don't know their names but they're very rare, most of the faculty is great. There are 2 internal unit tests and 1 viva/practical exam every sem and 1 sem final exam which is held by Mumbai University. Course is relevant but pretty outdated for sume subjects. Most students clear the exams but around 10-15% do fail in both internal and MU exams.

college doesn't have a hostel, college gate is closed at 7pm so there's no nightlife there. Locality is safe since its a very active area with many office buildings around, residential areas too. Living nearby is good but the area lies on a very Active highway so there's a lot of traffic.