Shubham Sinha's Review on Indian Institute of Technology, [IIT] Roorkee

There are various internship oppurtunities e.g through IAS, at IISERs, DRDO etc. A lot of people go to foreign universities for doing their ph.D. Some of the key companies that come here are Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Cognizant, Oxigen, KPMG, EICHER, IBM, amazon.com etc. The percentage placement is 80-90%. The average package is around 7-8 LPA.

The alumuni network of IIT Roorkee is very vast and strong. Some of the reputed alumuni are 

There are total of 19 hostels in Indian Institute of Technology out of which 10 are for boys, 3 are for girls and 6 are for married people. The hostel fees is around 5000 per semester. There are not many hostels outside the campus. The food here is hygienic but not so good in taste.

The classrooms are fully air-conditioned and have loud speakers. The library has huge collection of books of different fields . Wi-Fi and LAN connection is provided in every hostel. There are various facilties for sports.

To get admission in IIT Roorkee, I had to qualify JEE Advance entrace exam. Also, my 12th class marks had to be more than 80 percentile. The entrance exams i took were JEE Mains, JEE Advance and WBJEE.

For my cousre your AIR in JEE Advance should be around 5000.

The classes in Indian Institute of Technology are usually between 9 am to 6 pm. The lecture hours vary from day to day. The teachers here are very cooperative and they prefer to use technologies to aid them in better teaching. It feels good to be here among smart people. You can learn something from everyone.

The current tuition fees at IIT is around 1 lakh per semester. The scholarships available are Merit-cum means scholarship and Inspire Scholarship. Besides that, students with parental income less than Rs. 5 lakh per annum are given 60% fee waiver. 500-600 students get scholarship each year.

Loans are usually needed to pay the tuition and hostel fees. There are two banks (PNB and SBI) inside the college campus where students can get loan easily. Besides that, a student can get his loan sanctioned from any bank all over India. 

There are a lot of clubs and association in Indian Institute of Technology. Some of them are Robotics, Star-gazing, SDS labs, Geek gazette, etc. The main festivals in the campus are Thomso(Cultural Festival), Sangram (Sports Festival) and Cognizance(Tech festival). 

The life here in campus is pretty interesting but busy. There are always new things to learn. The people here are very cooperative.