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Whatever you did in your high school or before will not matter to you after 4-5 years, once you are independent in your life and you have settled in your career.
But a good College is really important. College is not only meant for graduating and getting a degree. It paves and directs your whole future. A wrong decision and all your potential and talent will be wasted.
In today’s blog I will guide you for choosing a perfect engineering college.
Below I will mention important factors for choosing a college and describe the importance of every factor.
Factors which make a college good:
1. PLACEMENTS.
i. Number of Companies visiting.
ii. Number of Offers made.
iii. Top recruiters.
iv. Number of students applying for a placement.
v. Placement percentage.
Placement is the foremost thing you should check while choosing a college for you because your ultimate goal for pursuing engineering is to earn.
Number of companies visiting a college gives you a brief idea of the college’s impression among recruiters.
Top recruiters are very important because they are the companies which offer students a good package, while 70% of the visiting companies are mass recruiters i.e. offer a low package and recruit a large number of students.
Placement percentage is not very important because if you work hard then you will definitely get a placement. But a decent college has a minimum placement percentage of 70%.
One important thing that you need to check is the ratio:
Number of Offers made/Number of students applying for a placement.
For example, in certain colleges like VIT, KIIT, there are 2000-3000 students pursuing a single branch, but a good company recruits a maximum of 15 – 20 students for a job.
Now, imagine the competition that a student faces for even landing in an average job.
Average and Median Package:
Often, students look at the average package of college as a deciding factor for college.
But this is an extreme mistake.
Let me explain this with an example.
Suppose there are 5 students who got placed from a college X
Student | Package p.a |
| |
1 | 40 |
2 | 17 |
3 | 10 |
4 | 9 |
5 | 8 |
Average package = 17 lakhs p. a
Median package = 10 lakhs p. a
The median package is a better option for selecting a college because it gives you an idea of the package that more than half of the students are offered.
Your college will be the place where you will be spending the next 4 years of your life. In these 4 years, you will discover the society and its working.
You will come to interact with people from all over the country and with different ideology and thoughts.
It is very important for everyone to be specific about choosing their surrounding and environment.
Factors to be taken care of while choosing a college:
i. Campus area (a small campus gives you very limited exposure. Choose a campus with a minimum of 25 acres of the campus area.)
ii. College Fests.
iii. Students variation (a mixture of people from different locations gives you a nice view of outer culture)
iv. Location of your college (a preferred location is neither too far from the city nor too close to it)
A common question that everyone faces is that should I go with NIRF for deciding the quality of a college??
NIRF stands for National Institute Ranking Framework.
NIRF allots colleges of India a ranking in the course they provide among all colleges of the country.
NIRF ranking depends on a lot of factors:
i. Number of research papers published
ii. The number of PhD faculties
iii. Diversity of the college
iv. Placements and Entrepreneurship
v. Budget of college and its utilisation
vi. Student-faculty ratio
The above six are the most important factor ranked in descending order of priority. As you can see that a college needs not to be the best in all the six factors.
Suppose a college with an excellent placement record may not be good at research work and hence its NIRF ranking will not be good than a college with poor placements but good research works.
So, NIRF is not a better option to judge a college
Choose a college which is:
i. AICTE approved.***
ii. NAAC approved.**
iii. NBA accredited.*
iv. NIRF ranked *
Many colleges do not come in the NIRF rank list i.e. they are not even approved by NIRF. Avoid those colleges
e.g. BIT Bangalore, Many State Colleges.
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