Pritish Chakraborty

Review of MRIU

At best an average to above average experience. Fa...

At best an average to above average experience. Faculty is okay, most of them are nice to interact with and will help you in need, and a select few of them made my experience worthwhile. In other colleges they organize code challenges, hackathons, they have clubs for events like GSoC. But the college isn't really to blame here - the crowd takes very little interest in all this. Infrastructure is their main selling point - they have decent to good infra.

The administration sure likes their money - took 1k off our security fund as 'entry fees' into the college's own 'alumni group'. I haven't received my security fund money either. Every year, they make a lot of money off of students taking their backlog exams (although this ties back into the crowd). They have a weird fees breakup - for services students don't even use, like Email(??).

Placements were a mess during my time (have heard they improved on this in later batches). They had a hard time gathering companies, and at best we got positions in companies which don't care about software engineering in the least. Mostly small to medium service companies - not a single product company. In hindsight it was fine for the majority of students, whose needs they cater to.

I wish CSE fundamentals were taught better (outside of the few faculty I mentioned above). Lack of good mentorship cost us a lot. I should add that for quite a few of the core subjects they used standard books, which is a very good thing, but not all of it was taught well.