ABES Engineering College B.Tech Review By Abhishek Kothari

ABES Engineering College Ghaziabad is a perfect college for students who want to build their career as Engineers. After some hard time during the schooling, as getting admissions here required good numbers in JEE, I had huge expectations from the College. I completed by B.Tech (IT) in 2016 from ABESEC and will say that the College is quite cheaper than many other private colleges or universities. Many people have questioned the packages of B.Tech students here, but the College is more about learning as good learning will take care of earning. Many activities were organized in the College that helped us with our studies. From practicing yoga to rubbing shoulders with industry leaders, ABES College will provide you all of that. There were no signs of any form of ragging inside the campus. Strict means too strict as every month your attendance percentage will be texted to your father, and thus you can’t lie to your parents. Another thing that bothered me was the dress code. For PG students, its ok but even for UG students, you have a dress code. GP marks were cut if we did a foul play. Thus, strictness sometimes consumed us, and that’s the only worrying part about the College.

I have never seen air-conditioned classrooms before, and study in an air-conditioned room was definitely new for me. The College, as I have said is quite strict and maintaining attendance was compulsory. The studies were done through projectors, and all was taught through software. I was always fascinated by the tech world and ABES helped me live my dream as computers, coding, and all is what we did the entire 4 years. Learning the basics to becoming the master, ABES made sure that we have all the knowledge that an IT engineer should have.

Some of them were depressing as I feel that IT faculty should be new age people. Just changing slides after slides and explain it verbally has the least impact. We questioned, but we were told in the practical session we will clear the doubts. The list of doubts were so long that most of the time, my doubts remained unclear. Experience wise they were handy, but their old teaching method on new age subjects was perhaps not the right combination. Not saying this for all, but yes, some of the faculty still believed in old-aged teaching.

Nearly 100 companies visited the campus, and UG and PG students had the same set of companies to appear for. Not just the faculty or the placement cell helped us in choosing the right company and preparing for the interview, seniors also chipped in with their piece of advice. The placements were spot on as getting a 5-6 lakhs package for a fresher was quite easy. If I didn’t plan further studies, I would have taken the job that I was offered. ABES Engineering College placements were done smoothly, and the college management kept an eye on the ones missing out as they tried everything possible to get the maximum students placed. ABES Engineering College highest package during out time was 13 lakhs to a B.Tech student. It was more than many M.Tech students, and the moral of the story is that the companies checked knowledge than the numbers we have scored.

Just for a year, I stayed at the hostel as ABES Hostel Fees was high and strict rules. The rooms were nice, and sharing it with 3 was also not mindful, but the timings and sometimes the food were unbearable. We have to enter the hostel lobby by 8.30pm, and we should have been done for our dinner by then. Eating biscuits and cooing Maggie on induction consumed a lot of our time as midnight munching is a must thing for engineers. The college crossroads had various apartments for students and me, along with some of my friends shifted there from the 2nd year.

ABES Campus has hi-tech classrooms and advanced tools for studies in all classes was the biggest highlight for me. The College has upgraded their library to digital and that made access even easier. The hostellers occupied the basketball court as it was under the hostel premises. Solar panels have been installed, and rain harvesting drainage has also been built. The campus is lush green and believed in a greener environment and has maintained enough trees inside the campus. The multiple canteens which were pretty expensive, served nice food. The entire campus is covered with CCTV cameras, and though there are some blind spots, no lover's point which people generally search in College.

Events, fests, and competitions were held often. I had fun participating in most of the events and competitions. Loved the life at ABES as learning was given the most importance. As an engineer, I don’t think I could have been a better place than this as the College gave a perfect engineering life feel that had parties, last-minute submissions, requesting teachers to give some extra marks in the practicals.