Abhishek Jaiswal

Abhishek Jaiswal's Review on Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

Overall Rating: 3.1

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Reviewed on Dec 21, 2016
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Placements and Internships

2.5

  • This is an area where IET is not one of the good places. The placements and internship opportunities at IET are above average at best, and that too can only be said for Computer Science (CS) and Electronics and Communication (EC) graduates.
  • The major recruiter every year from the campus is Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS), hiring on an average 80 to 100 students from all branches. Similar companies hiring majorly from CS and IT branches like Wipro, Tech Mahindra cover the rest of the 50 to 60 students.
  • For CS, there are a few product based companies hiring for developer roles, like Adobe, Pitney Bowes, Analytic Quotient, Aurigo Software, MediTab, etc. but only about half of them can be called consistent recruiters.
  • The average salary offered is around Rs. 4 Lakhs per annum. The highest package offered is Rs. 9.2 Lakhs PA, offered by Adobe. The rest of the product based companies offer anywhere between Rs. 4 to 6 Lakhs PA.
  • There are no companies visiting the campus for internship roles, so there is no support from the college for internships and you are on your own. I bagged two internships off campus but it is a very rare sight for someone to be doing an internship, especially if you are not from CS or IT.
  • The alumni network is quite weak. If you know alumni or can get him to talk to you and help you out, you're going to be just fine but very rarely there's an initiative from alumni on the jobs front.

College Infrastructure and Hostel Facilities

3.5

  • The infrastructure of IET is decent enough. There are two main college buildings where classes run. The second one is a newly built building that is mainly used for first-year classes.
  • There are 8 boys hostels of which five belong to the third and final year students and one each for the first year, second year and MCA/MBA students. There are 4 girls hostels in which one is entirely for first-year girls and the other three are distributed among second, third and final year girls, none having a hostel entirely for themselves.
  • The yearly hostel fee is Rs. 10,500 and the hostel mess fee is Rs. 16000-18000. The mess fee is mandatory if the student lives in the hostel.
  • There is small rooms and large rooms available right outside the college for students and the rent varies from Rs. 4000 to Rs. 10,000 monthly. Sharing of rooms is quite common among people who live on the premises.
  • The food in the hostel messes is satisfactory in most of them while great food is available in the C-Block hostel mess, accessible to only C-Block residents and outsiders. It costs from Rs. 16000 to Rs. 18000 depending on the mess.
  • The classrooms are very standard huge government building halls with wooden seats. They are large enough to seat all the students. The labs, on the other hand, are mostly non-functional and obsolete with outdated equipment and untrained staff, although some labs are an exception.
  • There is a library with an average collection of books. It is not open 24x7, so students complain about that a lot. Books can be issued for 15 days at once and there is a reading area in the library separately.
  • Apart from all this, all the boy's hostels are equipped with high-speed wi-fi or ethernet internet connections. The internet is great and runs very smoothly at least a 100 Mbps.
  • This is one of the major things that keep people in the hostels. There is an auditorium, a canteen, a student activity center, and a sports field in the premises.

Entrance Exams and Admissions

  • The admission procedure for my course at IET was pretty straightforward. We had to appear for the UPSEE (Uttar Pradesh State Entrance Exam) exam and based on the final rank achieved by the candidate, he/she would be allocated various colleges.
  • At that time, there were three main government engineering colleges that students preferred, HBTI Kanpur, IET Lucknow and MMMEC Gorakhpur.
  • For IET, You had to have a General rank within the top 2000 to have a shot at admission along with quota seats for OBC, SC, ST, Armed Forces, Freedom Fighter, etc.
  • There are no such eligibility criteria for a particular course except a valid UPSEE score and rank.
  • In general, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering are the most sought after branches and typically admit students with general ranks within the top 1400 in the UPSEE.

Academics and Faculty

1.5

  • Now this is where IET hits the deck. The academics here suffer from a variety of factors, right from an outdated AKTU curriculum, lack of faculty members, lack of interest among both the students and teachers, etc.
  • Poor teaching methodology and uninteresting classes.
  • The classes start at 09:10 AM every working day and run till 04:30 PM. In this time period, most classes are not taken for the first two months or so just because no teacher is assigned the class. Many classes are short and do not run very often because of the uninterested students.
  • There are two class tests every semester before the final exams. The students are generally given copy-paste assignments which are readily available on the Internet.
  • The quality and method of teaching are extremely poor. There are underqualified teachers amidst a lack of faculty in the college. There are a few good professors who know their stuff but are generally busy in office politics and/or their research work.
  • Overall both the academics and the faculty are very poor at IET and none of the outdated subjects offer any professional advantage.

Fees and Scholarships

4.5

  • The fee is quite low for IET, being a state government engineering college.
  • The course fee for the year is about Rs. 48000 for the first year and about Rs. 38000 in the subsequent years. Apart from this, the hostel and mess fee add up to Rs. 25,000.
  • The college doesn't offer any scholarships on its own. However, a certain group of students, decided by their family's annual income, do get a scholarship from the UP government, amounting approximately to Rs. 64,000.
  • Generally, people don't take loans to study at IET. But if you do need one, any bank will offer you a loan, provided you are eligible. 

Clubs and Associations

3.5

  • The campus life in IET is quite peaceful and laid back for most people who are not registered for every other thing. I was not one of them, though.
  • There are multiple clubs and societies, such as:
  1. TARANTISM, the dance club, which I was the leader of, for 2015 and 2016.
  2. IET JOSH, the crazy dramatics club which wins almost anywhere they go to perform.
  3. SWARANJALI, the singing and music team of the college.
  4. College football, cricket, badminton, table tennis, etc. teams.
  5. There are also literary societies, tech clubs and social club at IET.
  • The main festival on campus is ENCORE, which is a technical cum cultural fest and usually is organized in March. There is great excitement and aura in the college when Encore is approaching. There is also a sports festival SHAURYOTSAVA for the sports enthusiasts and is usually organized in November. Both are inter-college fests and thus people from many colleges in Lucknow show active participation.
  • In general, the life in college is pretty good and laid back, especially if you are a part of an exclusive group like the dance club or the dramatics club, etc.
  • The classes are mostly free (especially in CS) and people just move around the college leisurely.
  • Lucknow is a great city for students and IET students are well respected. 

Overall Rating

3.1

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Placements & Internships

2.5

Fees & Scholarships

4.5

Academics & Faculty

1.5

College Infrastructure & Hostel Facilities

3.5

Clubs & Associations

3.5

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