OCT Bhopal: Admission, Courses, Fees, Placements

OCT College of Technology as a private institute was set up in 2002 is a part of OCT group in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. This affiliated college located in a spread over 6-acres with technical and management programmes. This programme is assess by National assessment and accreditation council (NAAC) and recognised by All India council for Technical Education (AICTE). The institute boasts a total student enrolment of 1,547, with a gender ratio of 3:1/1, male/female, and is staffed with a faculty of 165 members. Currently, OCT has 16 courses in 3 degrees offering courses in engineering disciplines and management bachelors.

There is much in the way of special amenities available to students at OCT College of Technology to support their learning needs. The provided facility has adequately stocked laboratory for practical experience, a large air-conditioned hall for concise capacity of one thousand people, and modern library containing over forty eight thousand two hundred and two volumes of text and reference books. The computerisation is strong, the college has 600 computers linked to 64 Mbps leased line connectivity. The students are free to read online journal, national/international publications and technical magazines. To address the problem of shelter, OCT has a host or dormitory for boys and girls separately. There are also dining hall, clinic that has a permanently stationed doctor and a nurse, and playing fields for rounded growth of students.

OCT Bhopal has a large number of disciplinary areas of study, covering 10 undergraduate programme and 6 postgraduate programmes, 16 programmes in total. The institute offers degree programmes for different fields of engineering like Computer Science and Engineering, Information Technology, Electronics and Communications, Mechanical Engineering. At post graduate level OCT provides MBA and M.Tech programme in various specialised areas. The overall intake sanctioned for admission in all courses is 1,547 and thus open for students from number of regions of the country.

In OCT Bhopal, the admission process mostly entails performance in the National level entrance test. For engineering programmes, there is admission through Joint Entrance Examination Main and based on the decision of the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Bhopal. Counselling is done by DTE and destal are published in leading newspapers all over the state. Even for MBA programmes, although it was not clarified which exact exam, it is fairly standard for management programmes to accept scores of exams like CAT, MAT and even state level MBA entrance test.

OCT Bhopal has a multi­-religion student mix; out of total 29% of undergraduate students and 31% of postgraduate students belong to other state. These factors enhance a cultural diversity on the campus, thus making it even more culturally diverse. They also offer scholarship information however the information was not in detail. Needless to say, being a technical institution offering a wide range of facilities and course for engineering and management courses, Oriental College of Technology, Bhopal is going to retain its role of preparing future engineers and managers of the region.