Banaras Hindu University B.Com Review By Rahul Bansiwal

BHU is a place that will give you chance to shine. I am from Banaras so I knew I had to look no beyond other than Banaras Hindu University at least for my graduation. BHU is the largest residential campuses not just in India but Asia. Students from almost all states of India and foreign students from over 50 countries become a part of BHU every year as the popularity of BHU Varanasi is farfetched and something for which one can sing as many songs as they can. B. Com (Hons) is a not a surprising course but the way it's been taught here is definitely surprising. The university has already proved the point up top by making a statement all these years. With the kind of placements, the university has provided the statement has reached far enough as south Indian students too have started coming in numbers to BHU. The university name itself drives excitement and exasperation in the breath of colleges and universities. The university has been around for so long and with private universities with many latest technologies and other stuffs have grabbed the attention of many but little do they know that those who have stayed grounded have reach the highest of highs.

B. Com (Hons) in finance meant a specialized subject on finance and other add on subjects related to that such as insurance, banking and audit were included. Well, such is the program and such is the ability of the faculties here that you always want to learn more and more. B. Com is not a niche course and one has to carry on studies post that to reach far or to reach places. So, the learning that started there didn’t stopped there because we were always motivated to take up classes for entrances and also in the university there were libraries and classes for entrance preparations. Around 10% of the students that study here prepares for UPSC right from the word go. So, academics here are not confined to the course that you have enrolled for.

The reason why students of BHU are grounded is the faculties of the university. All of them are PhD holders and still never blow their trumpets about the same. They always believe in giving good things because that is how one can expect back good things. Faculties here were custodians of trust that the university has shown on them to look after the students. They did their job fantastically well and one has to be mindful of their actions because they may not tell you anything but they do keep a note of any wrong doing happening from students end.

The mentorship of training and placement cell was amazing as they trained us with a lot of things such as building on our communication skills, be instinctive, and lastly learn to behave in crowd as people from our region are known for their tempered behavior. I am sorry if I am wrong but fact is fact. So, moving on the jobs that were offered to B. Com students were mostly the BPO jobs or the accounts jobs and almost all the companies that came for placements were from Delhi NCR. Since, the standard of living is high over there; even the B. Com students were offered salaries worth 18-30k in hand. So, for starters it wasn’t a bad choice but BPO jobs were the last thing that I would have done in my life and therefore even though I could have had one, I decided against it.

I wish I could count the number of hostel blocks that are there at the campus. Importantly not all blocks are at one place as one is somewhere and few others here and there. Each hostel block has a certain number of rooms and rooms are given purely on double and triple sharing basis as single room facility is not available at BHU hostel. To apply for mess was not compulsory like we were day scholars and still could have meal at any of the hostel mess paying 50 per meal. The hostels have a strict curfew time and the students who fair to enter the hostel within that time had to stay out the entire night.

BHU campus is open for all as you will find many autos and random people on bikes coming on the campus. So, the campus is free to all till 9 pm. The campus has one of the best Shiva Temple in Birla Temple and there’s one of the grandest temples built lately at the campus, The New Vishwanath Temple. BHU has one main gate and there are endless other gates. It doesn’t matter which gate do you exit from, you will always find auto or bus station close to that gate. In addition to temples there is also a world class hospital inside the campus and BHU students can get treated themselves for free at the campus hospital. There are endless facilities and I have already exceeded the word count I was asked for. So, all in all, BHU campus is beyond words and as I said it is open for all, one should once in their lifetime come and visit the breath taking BHU campus.

I have literally lost the count of the number of fests that were celebrated at BHU. Some of the departmental fests that were celebrated were Kshitij, Shristi, Sanskriti, and many more. The inter college fest organized at the BHU campus was known as Spandan where students of almost all the best colleges of UP come and participate in over 50 events.