Manipal electronics n instrumentation vs srm vadapalani?

Hello Rashee,

First i am telling about SRM university's pros and cons:

Pros:

Located in Chennai which is a metropolitan city. Three out of five campuses are located in chennai.

You can have a lot of fun whether it is movies or drinking or smoking you can do whatever you want.

In ktr there are a lot of opportunities provided to students to develop their profile like, hundreds of clubs, teams like robocon, conrods, camber, and 4ze where students can build their own bots, cars and stuff. If you are really interested in your field then you can do anything in SRM.

I dont know about other campuses but in ktr the canteen facilities are excellent.

As far as placements are concerned most students are placed in IT sector. Core companies also visit the campus but they select only one or two students. In a batch of 500–600 students some 15–20 are placed in core companies. But still that depends on your skills and we cant blame the university for that.

Lot of pretty girls from male perspective.

Cons:

The student to faculty ratio is too high. For eg for a batch of 600 students there are only 50–60 faculties. So the ratio is about 11. But this is considering B.tech alone but if you consider M.tech and Phd then the ratio will be still higher like 15–20.

Faculties are not highly skilled, though they are post graduates in their respective fields. Most of them have completed M.tech from other local colleges. There are very few from IIT’s and foreign universities.

The curriculum is old and not revised.

The evaluation system is also not very good. In exams there are 15 questions totally, out of which 5 are of 16 marks each where we have choice, there are five units in all subjects so one 16 mark question from each. Since there is choice ie any one out of two for each 16 marker, we can skip many topics. The two mark questions are basically definitions and simple problems. The questions repeat every year so even if you mug up last five year papers you can score above 90/100. But even that many students dont do.

The grades are awarded by relative grading system, ie the top scorers get A+, next few percentage of scorers get A and then A- and so on.A+ means 100, A means 95, A- means 90. So in few difficult subjects even if your total score is 85 you might get an A+. The end semester exams have 50% weigtage and remaining 50 is internals.

Since relative grading is followed I personally feel students of ktr are at a disadvantage. In vadapalani, Ramapuram and all their respective faculties set the question papers in which many questions are leaked before hand, so the students end up getting 100%. I personally know students in vadapalani campus who had internals of 50/50 in most of the subjects while I had around 35/50 in most subjects in very few subjects I had internals over 40/50. But the end semester paper is set by ktr so these students face a problem there but due to high internals they manage to get A+. And believe me or not about half of students of vadapalani are 9 pointers whereas in ktr only a fraction ie less than 10% are 9 pointers. An important thing to note here is that the toppers in SRMEEE usually choose ktr. Only after the seats in ktr are filled up the students go for other campuses. So this what I discussed above cant be just a coincidence. So if you want to get good grades i suggest you choose vdp or ramapuram over ktr. Over the last few years the university toppers for most of the branches have come from these campuses.

Very little research happens here if that is what you are looking for. Most of the faculties don’t have any publications.

If you have some influence like if you know the top management people you can get a seat without writing entrance test and I even personally know people who got full scholarship ie zero fees. This makes me feel like I am a fool who has worked to clear the entrance test and got a merit seat and I am paying 1.5 laks per year though I am not very rich.

Also if you have a lot of money you can join in management quota into any branch you want. Almost half of the students have joined in management quota.

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Now I am telling you about the pros and cons of Manipal University:

Pros:

1. Amazing college life. You will have a life outside classroom and no, it will not include alcohol, drugs etc. if you don't want to.

2. Personality development. Manipal it's students and culture shapes you like nothing else.

3. You have a club for anything and everything. Every choice, hobby , niche is important and one can find people with common interests very easily.

4. You can build a really good profile here. Join IAESTE and do some foreign internships, or be a part of Formula Manipal and other cool stuff to build up a good resume.

5. Friends for life. I've had better friends here rather  than at my school. Since most of us stay away from our families these friends become family and share all happiness and sorrows. But you need to decide what kind of company you want to keep.

6.Goa, Agumbe, Coorg,Gokarna are amazing places  to visit which are very close and during your stay here you can go vacationing for a weekend.

7. The place is breathtakingly beautiful. The beaches nearby along with the western ghats are sometimes a sight to behold especially during mornings.

8. This one relatively a somewhat stupid point but nonetheless I'll mention it. Being a premiere institution you get quite a few perks. For example if you are appearing for the e-litmus exam they give you a rebate on your registration fee on your first attempt.

Well I can go on and on but I will leave this part saying that there is a beauty in this place which cannot be expressed in words. We do not say "Born in India brought up in Manipal" for no reason.

Cons:

1. You might have to be the victim of typical Indian  mentality "you must have given donation" or "you that is everyone's last choice" for some time. And if you have snobbish relatives or family friends you will have to learn to endure.

2. If you fall into wrong company and get into bad habits(which is very easy here) you might get astray from your path. Choose your friends wisely.

3. The faculty. The faculty here are just doing their jobs, some are good  at  it most are not. They will set difficult papers and do tough  corrections and trust me my friend, you are on your own.

4. You might have to explain some people that you are studying in Karnataka and not in Sikkim or Manipur. It is irritating. but after Nadella and Suri things are changing.

5. You will miss the place like hell when you pass out and will realize that the past four years were the best of your life......

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For more information about SRM University please visit this link:

Here is the link:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.careers360.com/university/srm-institute-of-science-and-technology-chennai/amp

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Farmer information about manipal University please visit this link:

Here is the link:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.careers360.com/university/manipal-university-jaipur/amp

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Hope this helps...

Thank you and all the best...