Jagran Lakecity University BBA Review By Ashish Chauhan

Well, on paper one will find no better university than Jagran Lakecity University at least in Bhopal. However, in reality the things are opposite. Well, there are opposite because the beauty of face might fade away but brain will never. The brains behind building this university have put all that they had in building the face of it but nothing in terms of providing a better education for which the students today need steep motivation. Well since I am writing to talk about my experience, I will have to put aside students as nearly half the students who joined this university were not serious or hardworking. The irony though is that university is more than happy to entertain such students because they themselves know that they hardly have good faculties or the academic facilities. They have copied the course from top universities but as they say imitation also requires wise thinking. This was absent and therefore everything that was good about the university is its infrastructure and crowd because for those who seriously want to study there are many better universities in Bhopal.

The university has projected its itself as work oriented and busy by closing the gate and not allowing the students to leave before 4 pm. Our classes used to get over by 5 but since we knew that the gates will be opened by 4, I missed the fourth lecture intentionally as I found no motivation to study at the university. Well, they are ignoring studies is still acceptable but they burdened the students with extracurricular activities because the university had visitors all year around. So, how is that justified as students were forced to be a part of the activities and that will help them have some extra grades. Now this was the grading system there and you can yourself image the kind of studies that might be happening at JLU.

With no offence to faculties but if you import the course from IIMs or top universities for BBA, you need to get faculties from there too. Well, most faculties were graduate from some poor central university and some of them were totally raw as they hardly had any prior experience in teaching. They themselves had to understand the topic first while I have seen faculties who don’t even put up slides and just explains us as they know what’s there in the topic and how that has to be taught. Such faculties were required to get the education streamlined but they rather were busy building more hostels as they have predicted that in 4-5 years, JLU will be one of the biggest private universities in India.

I wish I heard the first time that I am supposed to write about the placements. Jagran Lakecity University placement was close to minus because a zero is acceptable but some companies that came at the university offered dubious jobs where the students who had future plans of studying were taken and then were asked to leave in a month or so. So, they were left stranded because even after good percentiles, they didn’t join any PG college and the job that they had in hand was also lost. Engineering, law and other departments may have found some takers but for BBA the takers were few and then they did this to the students they hired.

Many didn’t know that along with on-campus hostels the university also had some off-campus hostels too. They were in range of the university and were built alright too. JLU Bhopal hostel names were kept after the names of freedom fighter which is quite common but hostels were fantastic. As I have mentioned many times before, in building the infrastructure the management had left no stone unturned but in assembling education they have.

The academics may be poor but the academic infrastructure amazed one and many. The classrooms were such that sitting there was a comfort in itself. The library which had three or rather four floors was taken from the books of ancient Egypt as it was built in some Pyramid shape. Well, one thing that we people of MP relish the most is food and because my dad owns a restaurant, I was told by him to try them all and tell me what kind of food appeals the palette of modern-day people. From south Indian food to momos the food court APETITE had many outlets to choose from.

I was not into sports but for sports lovers JLU campus is heaven. Some good coaches have been hired and students didn’t require any permissions to play the sports of their choice as there were plethora of choices. Apart from sports, the university events were bigger than the best as inviting celebrities and some ministers at the events was quite common here. So, the tiger paper may not have given the university its primary thing academics but has certainly given them the best secondary thing that is extra-curricular activities.