Meghnad Saha Institute of Technology B.Tech Review By Pratyushmita Samanta

I chose this course because my rank was not that high to get pure CSE and CSBS was my second preference and I got it in the round of counseling. There are many facilities and you won't face any difficulty if you want to learn something. Join this college if you only want a degree and are not expecting a great on campus job.

For getting admission, you must have Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in your classes 11 and 12. Then you have to sit for the WBJEE exam. WBJEE is conducted once every year around April-June. Earlier it used to take place around Feb. Well, this year they also took some students who didn't give wbjee, but they were few in number. The cut-off for CSBS was somewhat around 30-36k ranks, but they all took direct admissions in all the new courses like cyber security, Data science, and AIML even without donation. I am referring to the admission of our batch 2022-2026. Maybe as it was a new course introduced in our college, that's why they took students with direct admission to fill the seats. Talking about reservation benefits, yes there are benefits of TWF, i.e. Tuition Fee Waiver. Only 5 per cent of students can avail benefits of TWF. Under TWF, the total fee for 4 yrs would lie around 50-60k excluding the exam fees and other charges.

Faculty: Student ratio would be around 20:1. The teachers are well qualified. Many of them are PhD holders, some are even for IITs. So they are not at all under qualified, Regarding the behavior and teaching method, almost see all the teachers are good in behavior, except the mechanical workshop teachers(yes, all the first-year students have mechanical workshops in their curriculum). Those mechanical teachers can teach more or less well but are intolerable when we talk about behavior. All the other teachers are friendly, and some of them also teach well.

Our college has a placement cell. From the 7th semester, students are eligible for placements. Earlier than that, we can do internships. There are many companies that come but most likely you would be placed in common names of company that visits the campus for placements that is TCS, Wipro, cognizant, Infosys, and even CTS. The placement percent is around 85 per cent. The lowest offer was 2.6 LPA by TCS and the highest was around 32 LPA by Microsoft.

No facility of hostel and accommodation is provided by the college. There are many PGs and hostels nearby, you can stay there. You can also take a room in rent along with 2-3 friends. If you are a vegetarian, don't even think to stay nearby college, you won't get decent veg Food there. Some female classmates said that the area gets completely empty and may not be suitable for girls and I don't have exact idea though.

This college has 3 buildings. There are many books in the college library, but that does not sufficiently get the point into a note about the increase in the number of intakes. The college provides you with the semester books which you have to return at the end of the semester. There were quite a few students who didn't get any books due to unavailability and shortage of books. Hope, this doesn't repeat in upcoming years. You can issue any book available in the library for 1 month, and you have to renew the issuance for further use. We have access to digital library. There are only buildings in the campus and no other infrastructure and forgot about sports.

The campus life is a complete zero. We use to go up and down the floors if we want to pass time or chill. 2 fests are conducted every year in our college. The annual Tech fest is known as PARIDHI, and another one is Cultural fest. There are many clubs run by students like SARGAM for music, foundation like ROTARACT, RESILIENT; ROBOTICS, and many more.