School of Engineering CUSAT Reviews on Infrastructure, Campus, Placement, Facilities & Faculty

The mechanical department of the college lacks equipments/ devices or are not in proper working conditions. For example, most of the heat and mass transfer laboratory equipments give absurd results or are not operational at all. If I were to rate the infrastructure on separate grounds,engineering library:4.5/5, Mechanical labs: 2.5/5(being trained upon obsolete equipment), classrooms: 2.5/5(as of now 3 students are made to sit on one bench), hostels: 3/5(not enough vacancies), sports complex:4/5

My field of study is Mechanical Engineering. The college does update the syllabus at intervals of a couple of years yet I feel the students are not given proper industrial exposure. The students are to look for internship by themselves. Most of the faculty members are however undoubtedly scholars in their field and level / method of teaching is exceptional.

It has a poor record of placements for Mechanical department. Not many campus placements for this division, whereas exceptional offers come for other departments like CS, IT and the revered branch of Safety and Fire Engineering department. The highest salary almost every year since my admission to this college(3years) has gone to Safety and Gire Engineering.

Academic cost annually are about 1 lac being of All India Merit and under Open category. The goid and accomodation expenditure further adds about 5k every month. The only reason I rate value-for-money 4/5 is because of the exceptional library and a good number of professors who really do a hood job.

Probably the best thing I feel in the college is that there is always some activity ( seminars by some experts/ workshops/ exhibitions) going on. You would also find students who are much pro active on extra-curricular activities be it sports, engineering or arts as the college supports these upto a certain level. I, for instance, had enrolled myself for German learning course under the University from the department of Foreign languages which was a fairly good experience.

The worst thing is the indulgence of violence in student politics in the campus. Student politics is crucial but violence is not a reasonable approach and there doesn't pass a single semester without any event of a violent activity due to political differences.