MVJ College of Engineering B.Tech Review By Meghana Srinivas

MVJCE is one of the Visveswaraya Technological University (VTU) Engineering Colleges in Bangalore. The college is situated in Whitefield Bangalore and is easily accessible by public transport. The admission is through CET exam or one can get a seat through private admissions.

I studied Civil Engineering at MVJ College of Engineering from 2015 to 2019. I joined the college through KCET. The course quality was quite good, but some of the topics taught were outdated techniques and are not really used in current industry. The curriculum (VTU prescribed) is not helpful enough to gain enough ground knowledge.

There are good number of faculties in every department. While there are some great supportive faculties there are few who try to dominate students. The faculties are all qualified and knowledgeable. All the professors have at least completed Masters and a few of them PhD too. Teaching is good and faculties are helpful too.

Internship and Placement opportunities are below average. Only a few students get placed through the college. Placement trainings happen only a week in a year. Some of the top companies are Nutanix, TCS, and a very few finger countable. The highest package for 2019 batch was Rs. 10 LPA. Many of the students were not even placed by the end of the course. Percentage of students placed through college will be less than 10%.

There are separate hostels for boys and girls in the college campus. There are 2 for boys and 1 hostel for girls. I stayed in girls hostel for a year. The hostel is as strict as primary school. The gates close at 6 pm and girls are not even allowed to cross the hostel gates and come out to campus. The rooms are spacious and quite good. There are 2, 4, and 6 sharing rooms. There are bunker beds. Washrooms are shared and not quite satisfactory. Food is decent. Wardens are strict.

The college infrastructure is one of the best in city. The campus is spread around 15 acres and is very well maintained. However one hardly gets chance to spend much time in the campus as the watchmen are always determined to send students away. The library is big enough and has good collections but closes for girls at 6.30 pm. Boys can enjoy it till 9.30 pm. The labs and classrooms are very well equipped. There is a decent size playground but mostly occupied by boys. There is college cafeteria and there are two small Nescafe and Cafe Coffee Day shops which are quite good. There is an in-house stationery store too.

The encouragement for extracurricular activities in the college is average. One has to compromise attendance to be actively participating in extra-curricular activities, which again is a problem, as the college is super strict about attendance. There are different clubs like Singing, Dance, Theatre, Sports, etc. The college is comparatively stricter.

There is a dress code for boys and girls, boys are not allowed to wear jeans and round neck t-shirts and girls on the other hand must wear only kurtas and chudidars. Students are not allowed to enter the campus without ID card. Bunking classes in MVJCE is not an easy mission. Mass bunks are myths here. College fest is average too. Only a few students of the college attend, forget about outsiders. There is no DJ on fests and no ethnic day too. The most disappointing fact about the college is that the Management is very orthodox and keeps coming up with meaningless rules.