Akashdeep Bora's Review on Tezpur University, [TU] Tezpur

Placements are mainly concentrated with the School of Engineering and School of Business Administration. Though compared to IITs and NITs, placement is inferior, still most of the leading recruiters do come for campus placements. Big Names like Amazon, Intel, SAP Labs, Huwaei, IBM, Microsoft, Vodafone absorb aspiring students from CSE and ECE departments, PSUs like OIL, Power Grid, BHEL have currently started recruiting students from Mechanical,Civil and Electrical deptt. too.Mass Placement is notuch seen here. But CSE and ECE Deptts do witness 40% placements. Average package is 4.5 lacs per annum with an amazing 14 lacs per annum maximum(Amazon and OIL) Food Engg department invites companies like Patanjali, Dabur and Marico. Though the placement scenario is not that much satisfactory till now but with the invoming of PSUs and IT giants, it is sure to improve in the comimg years. Moreover, Tezpur University is placed in the 601-800 band in World Rankimgs along with prestigious IITs. Research is quite well dwvwloped with The Physics deptt. ranked 4th in India recently.

Tezpur University is a central university. Since it is centrally funded, its infrastructure is quite superior compared to the other universities in the state. Hostels have a wide range of facilities. Overall there are 14 hostels: 5 boys and 9 girls! 3 Wi-fi routers are available in each wing of the hostels and they give superb Net Speeds up to 2-3 Mbps. Hostel Canteen is opened up to 2:00 at night. Mess food is satisfactory and definitely worth the money, though it differs from hostel to hostel. Bathrooms are quite hygienic and equipped with tiles and shower facilities. 24hr Water Supply and Electricity is available. Washing machines are there too! Regarding Sports Facilities, there is a huge central playground with heavy floodlights. One mini indoor stadium, two volleyball courts, two basketball courts and one tennis court is situated inside the campus. A newly inaugurated swimming pool is also present. Labs are well equipped and air-conditioned Computer Labs have the latest OS and also very advanced CPUs. The Central library is huge with more than 80000 volumes altogether. Online Renewal facility is given. A health center is also situated inside the campus with complementary 1st aid and counseling. Together with a gymnasium and a music practice room, the infrastructure is quite up to the mark one must say. Campus life is amazing. Classrooms are spacious, wide and have projector facilities too.

Students to get admission in B.Tech courses must appear in JEE Mains exams conducted by CBSE every year. There are 6 branches of B.Tech offered here: Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, CSE, ECE and Food Engineering, and Technology. Based on AIR, the seats are filled up in various branches. Moreover, 60% seats are reserved for students of the NE region. In the academic year 2017-18, Cutoff for CSE branch for CRL was 97.

Most of the faculty are highly qualified and talented to brush concepts of students to a great extent. Most importantly they are very friendly and anyone can approach them with any counseling. Mentoring facility is provided too and is a compulsion. The course curriculum is very hectic, I must say. But nevertheless very systematic. 4 tests are held every semester with meticulous evaluation. Max credits for each course is 25 and one cannot exceed such credit in a single semester. Relative Grading is observed. Evaluation is transparent and fast. SGPA and CGPA s are given for each sem to every student. Minimum of 75% attendance is compulsory for every student and for every course. The normal Class timings are 9:10 am to 5:30 with one hour of lunch break. Saturdays and Sundays are closed.

The Course fee per semester for B.Tech course is 27003 including all aspects. Refer to the university website for further details. (www.tezu.ernet.in)

There are many facilities for extracurricular activities. There are many clubs in which students can enroll in Adventure and Sports club, Nrityangan Dance Club, Drama Club, NSS, NCC, etc. Tezpur University is located at Napaam near Tezpur, which is called the Cultural Capital of Assam. So definitely a lot of cultural fests are observed every year which witnesses a lot of vivid talents on the stage every year. The annual Techno-cultural event, Techxetra, is one of the most popular fests in North-Eastern India in which hundreds of young people from different colleges and universities crowd the campus. Apart from it, Fests like InScignis, Sampark, and the Annual Meet also makes the campus premises electrifying. Quizzes and debates are held almost every fortnight. And the Annual Meet witnesses vivid sports activities throughout the Campus. Bus Facilities are available from 6 am in the morning to 8 pm at night.