Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology B.Tech Review By Sravani Isvi

As it has been a long time since I passed out of GRIET, I am unable to give a very detailed review, but I'll do my best. To be honest, it has not been a life-changing or enlightening experience for me. Great placements and good infrastructure are their strongest suits, which keeps it on the list of top colleges, I believe. Poor quality of faculty, lack of encouragement towards extracurricular activities, separating students on the basis of gender are some of the major downsides of the collage. To be blunt, I had lost my interest in the subject and the enthusiasm to become a software engineer, after the first semester itself. I personally rate my overall experience as 3 on a scale of 10.

I have opted for computer science during my engineering. We needed a higher Emcet ranking to take up computer science, amongst all the other groups, at that time. I have joined the collage through the Management quota though, which cost us a bomb. The management quota students were called to start college a month before the actual college started. We were taught basic subjects like C-language, before all the other students. The course subjects were initially very appealing to me. I dived into it with a lot of eagerness, but the zeal to learn the subject kept dropping eventually.

Faculty is one of the major shortcomings of the collage I could say. More than 50 per cent of the faculty lack subject knowledge are poor at communicating in English and have bad teaching skills. Most of them made the subjects seem very uninteresting. Even worse, sometimes the faculty's voice would not even reach all the students. For such obvious reasons, students often lose focus and interest in the subject. As the semesters pass by, it gets even more difficult to keep up with the poorly taught subjects, and one might end up losing interest in the course itself. The faculty might be academically qualified, but most of them do not seem to have any kind of passion for teaching or towards the subject.

On the upside, the college provides a great placement opportunity to the students. They have decent tie-ups with a lot of great companies. More than 70 per cent of the students get placed by the end of the course. At that time, TCS had taken a major chunk of students, on board. However, placement training lacked in quality again. I don't remember receiving any training neither for preparing a resume nor handling the interviews effectively.

The college campus is spread over 18 acres of land. It has a superior infrastructure, which is very spacious with a great architecture. There is ample space for students to walk around, play sports and organise huge fests as well. The classrooms for students in different groups are located in different buildings. The cafeteria has its own 2 storey building, which is in turn divided to separate girls and boys - which is a weird policy they have. The campus has enough space for different kinds of laboratories required for all the subjects. It also has a decent sized medical support department, where any student who falls sick can rest. Students who drive their own vehicles need not worry about the parking space, it's huge.

My overall campus life experience was very average. There are huge playgrounds, but we never got time to play unless we bunked classes. There are huge fests like pulse, but the participation is low, as the classes will go as per regular schedule, until the day of the fest. So if we want to participate and practice for something we will again have to bunk classes. The college has this retrograde policy of gender-based separation. Guys and girls have different cafeterias, different collage buses, seated on different sides in a classroom and also have separated seating during a fest. Which I personally think is absurd in today's progressive world.