Friday, August 20, 2010

IIIT Hyderabad

Being a self-financed deemed university, IIIT Hyderabad provides a wide contrast to other institutes throughout India. Our curriculum, administration and procedural activities are quite different. Growth of IIIT is really amazing, only after 12 years of its opening, it is there in the top ten technology institutes of the country.

After giving AIEEE 2008 i too heard the name of this institute for the first time. The thing that benefited me was that my brother himself has cleared AIEEE in 2005 and was doing Btech from NIT Trichy during my counselling period. He discussed with his friends about various institutes that could be filled as an option. Since i wasn't sure of getting my first choice i had to consider other options as well. What i have observed is that, after 12th class noone is oriented to any particular trade, unless until he has been involved into any such kind of thing before. I had a bit of idea about it, because of my brother. He suggested IIIT Hyderabad and NIT Trichy as the final choice for the ccb counselling choices. I got myself enrolled in Computer Science Dual degree programme which involved two degree(BTech + MS).

The curriculum changed from the batch of 2k8, i.e., on the year i got into iiit. This is not the first time that something has changed when i have put my steps onto it. From the year 2k8, state quota was removed from AIEEE, but fortunately with good AIR i managed to get seat in IIIT. In IIIT, there is a committee or group to look after every other issue. Such things you dont often observe in Engineering institutes. I thought that administration is going to be slack in such issues, they would consider just the study aspect, but i was wrong, they want the people related to the institute to be organised, so that we will be responsible towards others as well. We were not subjected to the courses like Chemistry, Mechanics or Engineering Drawing etc., which the student of other institutes studies in first year, it includes iitians as well. Flexibility that curriculum provides is great, but some of the faculty members suffer from Jeevan Vidya.

I dont know how they could ask students to do things which are ideal in nature, may be when we will come to their age we will understand the importance of it too.

PS : Views can differ from people to people. I have written what i think of IIIT-H.

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