Mamali Mohapatra's Review on College of Engineering and Technology, Biju Patnaik University of Technology

 I personally did my first internship when I was in my first year in DRDO. As a fellow intern, I did not receive any stipend but got to learn a lot of new things. Some of the key companies are Maruti Suzuki, Asian paints, Tata steel, Vedanta, Robert Bosch, Infosys, Capgemini, Wipro, mu-sigma and many more. With the increasing number of students the placement status also increases. Every year around 70%to 80% students get placed with an average package of INR 3.72 lakh and till today the highest package in computer science was around INR 25 lakh per annum.

There are 2 girls hostel and 2 boys hostel which also has wifi facility that accounts for INR 5330 per semester. The dining hall remains clean and hygienic and the food is also up to the mark. The infrastructure is spread across 100 acres of land with beautifully designed buildings along with separate lab building and workshop areas with full access to wifi all over the campus. The classrooms are well equipped with wifi and are also smart classrooms, labs are well equipped with various instruments and devices, our central library provides books of all kinds, we have an orientation hall for seminar and conferences purpose. 

It is the best government college in the city. So the admission here is entirely through the JEE MAIN ranks. The cutoff for my branch was nearly about 214881 for general category and for SC/ST it was 58996.

The college maintains a strict discipline in academics and curriculum. The faculties are highly qualified and have great depth of knowledge about the subject. There are frequent seminars, conferences, interactive sessions, for boosting up moral confidence and also for personality buildup. There are also well-equipped laboratories for our better practical experience and faculties are very friendly and amiable. We have to give two internals per semester along with viva, surprise tests, and regular assignments. Teachers always boost up for taking up projects and learn new things. The overall experience here is really awesome and thrilling.

The course fee is very affordable and could be easily managed by all the students. It is around INR 37,000 for the core branches and for self-financing branches it is around INR 81,000 per annum. Along with that, our college also provides hostel opportunities with INR 5330 per semester excluding the mess fees. There are a number of scholarships for meritorious and needy students like Medhabruti, CET merit scholarship and even for reserved category students. Scholarships are provided for 50% as fee deduction. Loans are easily available.

Students clubs and societies are the most eye-catching thing in our college. We have several cultural, technical and also literary clubs that enhance the personality of an individual. we have technical clubs like Zairza, spectrum, Energy, Sae, Asme and cultural clubs like TDA, Arpeggio, Amuza for dance, song, and drama respectively. Then comes the literary club citadel for those who are passionate about writing, speaking and quizzing. Even we have an entrepreneur cell for the ones interested in marketing and business. Our clubs are very active and regularly conduct classes and sessions for our betterment and also assign us projects to excel and also certain competitions and workshops are organized to demonstrate our efforts. Every year we celebrate tech fest perception, cult fest, engineers cup and the literary fest for the amusement of the students. Our college life becomes very interesting and lively.