There are a number of scholarship programs available for you at MNNIT Allahabad. Check out the following and their details below.

• NSP (National Scholarship): This scholarship is provided by the govt. of India. You can fill the form online at their official website and then get it verified at Dean Student Welfare. This is open to all students and you can easily apply in the first year itself and it gets renewed every year.
• State Scholarships: Many state governments provide scholarships to students pursuing any technical course like B tech. It all depends on which state you belong to. The scholarship by UP govt. is the most popular one at MNNIT. Besides MP, Rajasthan is also an example. State scholarship for students from Bihar is available online on the NSP portal.
• Student welfare of MNNIT provides scholarships to meritorious students each year. You don’t need to surpass any income level to avail this scholarship. It is given to the top 10% of students of each branch considering their CPI. For first years or fresher's, JEE main rank is the criteria. For this, you are supposed to have a general rank <4000 or around.
• Student Welfare of MNNIT also provides scholarships if you do not possess good financial conditions. To avail of this scholarship, you need to prove with an income certificate stating less than a lakh per year. You should also have a CPI greater than 7.5. This scholarship amounts to about 20,000 rupees.
• Students from JNVs have special scholarships for them. ‘Samsung' provides scholarships, especially for Navodayans.
• CSS or Central Sector Scholarship is provided to SC/ST students.
• ‘Schneider Electric' provides scholarships to 2nd-year students of Electrical Engg and ECE. You need to provide an income certificate of less than 2 lakh. This one is based on your application form and online interview followed by a telephone interview.

Please mind that you need to fulfill certain eligibility criteria to apply for these scholarships which are mentioned in detail on their official websites. Also, note that you can apply for only one scholarship, not more than that. So, check which one of these is the most suitable for you and apply for that only.

My cousin belongs to the 2020 batch of B.tech at MNNIT Allahabad. Goldman Sachs visited the campus for an internship for their batch. The general selection criteria for this internship are:

• You must belong to either of these branches: BTech All, MCA, MSc
• You must have a CPI of 5 or above

If you are preparing for getting selected at Goldman Sachs, just focus on your problem-solving and coding skills. Also in their technical round, you will be asked Quant questions that are very hard if you lack practice in that. Yes, Quant questions are the type of questions that are asked in CAT exams.

However, it is quite common to see students with a CPI of 8 or higher being selected most. This is the harsh truth, thus you might see your name in the first shortlist but not in the second list as your CPI is lower. Hence, work hard enough to get a CPI of 8 or higher and emphasize more and more on your coding skills as the coding exam for Goldman is very tough.

Hostel and campus life are subjective things that will vary between individuals; there is no metric to comparatively quantify the same. I can give you some idea about the hostel and campus life at MNIT Jaipur and MNNIT Allahabad based on what I heard from my friends at the institutes. 

Comparison:

• Location: This is the best thing about MNIT Jaipur as it is located in the best locale of Jaipur, Malviya Nagar. This is one of the most happening places in the city and you would enjoy proper city life. In comparison Allahabad is a smaller and more old school town, so you may not enjoy proper city life. But then, this is subjective of course.
• Campus: You will get uninterrupted fast internet access. The campus has 9 boys hostels and 3 girls hostels. There is one mega boy’s hostel with 1000 bad capacity and one mega girl’s hostel with 600 beds capacity. All others are medium-sized (200-300 student capacity). In the first year, students share with two or four other students in their rooms. After that single rooms are allotted.
• Weather: The climate of Jaipur is harsh and hot most of the time. Allahabad, being in the plains, should have a comparatively pleasant climate.
• Food: The mess food at MNIT Jaipur is tasteless and pathetic.
• Other facilities: The computer center of MNIT Jaipur is really very good and is of a very high standard.

Based on what I heard from my friends at these two institutions, it seems that MNIT Jaipur offers a better hostel and campus life.

The sports facilities at MNNIT Allahabad are inadequate, and much can be done to improve them. Though facilities for sports such as cricket, football, tennis, basketball, and badminton are available, items can be issued without difficulty. 

There are numerous shortcomings on the part of the administration in terms of providing adequate facilities and motivation to students who participate in these games.

• The institute has an old, non-air-conditioned gym with all the necessary equipment. The gym hall is large and has high roofs to help with the intense heat and humidity. However, the administration does not invest in its renovation. There is a scarcity of weights for serious lifters.
• They also made wrong decisions, such as dividing the gym time equally between boys and girls, despite the fact that girls are never interested in gym or bodybuilding. They also made it mandatory for students to follow the trainer's advice and regime whether they needed it or not.
• Few people are aware that this institute has a swimming pool that is currently closed, most likely due to an accident that occurred a few years ago in which a student died. The authorities have since closed the swimming pool. However, the administration never attempts to change the situation.

All of this is taking place while this institute receives a yearly grant of around Rs 100 crores. The sad reality is that all of the money goes to the corrupt higher authorities of the Institute, and we can not do anything.

Every subject which you are currently studying has some credits and every semester has, in total, a certain number of credits. Multiply your SPI with the total credits of the semester. Do this for all the semesters; add them and divide by the sum total of the credits of all semesters. You’ll get your CPI.

Check this detailed formula to get a better view.

Formula:

Let SPI of respective semesters be S1, S2, S3, and so on. Let the credits of respective semesters be C1, C2, C3, and so on. Formulas to calculate CPI would be cumulative of SPI divided by the total number of credits.

CPI = {(S1×C1)+(S2 XC2)+……+(S8×C8)} ÷ (C1+C2+C3+…….+C8)

To calculate CPI, put the values of SPI and the total number of credits of the respective semester.

For example:

• If SPI of 1st semester = 9 i.e S1 and Credits for 1st semester = 25 i.e C1
• Similarly S2 =8 and C2=26. CPI for the 2nd semester would be, {(9*25) + (8*26)} ÷ (25+26) = 8.49

Similarly, you can calculate CPI for every semester.

You can also log in to the Dean Academics portal and check your transcript. Your CPI is calculated and shown there. In case of any suspicion, you can cross-check both methods.