First of all, the scholarships are not generally given, considering the scholars of IIEST. This should be kept in mind always.

The amount of money in the scholarships and the payment mode may differ in different cases. It can be paid regularly until the completion of the degree, or as a one-time payment. But you must know that there are subjects and the criteria to get the scholarships, which should be maintained.

Many former students have pointed out that the Global Alumni Association of Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, frequently funds the stipend, in which this institute sometimes acts as a whole or sometimes as an individual. Still, everything depends on the criteria, which is not always the academic merit.

In the following some criteria are listed, which are normally maintained:

• Academic Record
• Some Co-curricular activities
• Sports or Athletic records
• Financial Background of the student (if you are from an economically poor background, then it is subjected to the lowest academic criteria)
• Subject-based performances

However, more other criteria are not always listed but the college administration before the admission process.

Besides these institutional scholarships, there are also MHRD sponsored scholarships. These are well-documented, and you can get the details from the MHRD website; thereby, much explanation is not required in this regard.

You must check whether your parents/guardians are qualified to receive Income Tax reimbursement or the returns to support educational costs before applying for scholarships.

The choice of the department for an engineering degree is a decision for one’s own career, which runs a lifetime. Among the above two options, it is better to choose EE than ETC, considering several factors discussed below.

• The whole point of the choice is done keeping the college as constant, i.e. - IIEST Shibpur. Now a day, there are mass preferences and several misconceptions wherein people think about the consequences. Instead, you should consider your own capability of working on that specified stream, and how to be better at it. 
• You should go through the course structure of both the branches before choosing the stream and then make a decision. In IIEST Shibpur, both EE and ETC have an excellent reputation.
• Electrical Engineering in IIEST has better opportunities, making use of the lectures of excellent professors of the electrical department. The laboratories of EE are a bit better than those of ETC.
• For students in Electrical Engineering, there are chances of working in association with Civil and Mechanical Engineers, being in high profile projects. Even EE students become in-charge of National and State-level thermal grids, which is a huge position to work at. 
• For students in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, most jobs are generally indoors, including Electronics Systems analytics, Electronics Design, etc. ETE, being close to CSE, also offers good tech giant IT jobs to students having sufficient programming knowledge.
• For GATE aspirants, ETC students get some amount of preference due to less difficulty in the syllabus. The syllabus mostly comprises subjects from their course, but for EE, there are subjects from both electrical and electronics, which becomes a huge syllabus to cover. 
• In Electrical Engineering, the rate of change of concepts is less with years, and so the degree shell life is 40-50 years. On the other hand, for ETC, the rate of change is quite fast, having a degree shell life of about 25-30 years, or even less.

These are some points that a candidate needs to consider before making a choice in the stream for IIEST Shibpur.

Yes, there are several hostels and PG near 1st and 2nd gate. You can stay there if you cannot cope up with the culture of the hostels and rich mess foods. The points stated below are a brief discussion about the availability of PGs and private hostels outside the campus of IIEST Shibpur.

• Many students visit the PGs and mess to inspect their quality of food and living. According to them, those are quite good, clean, and worthy of staying.
• Some PGs offer food to students in their package, while some don’t. It also depends upon the preference of the students.
• There are good food available in nearby restaurants and street–side food stalls.
• Walking around the regions nearby, there are advertisements and contacts hanging in the nearby food stalls and stationery shops. Students can easily contact them, visit, and choose as per their wish.

So, there are enough options for students who don’t prefer staying at campus hostels and can stay at PGs and flats available at nearby locations.

According to NIRF rankings, IIEST comes at 20th place in the Indian Engineering College ranking, and 44 in overall college ranking. While IISER Bhopal comes 56th place. 

The following table will show you the basic differences between IIEST Shibpur and IISER Bhopal.

Your college selection also depends on your interest and future career plans. Both the colleges provide a different environment. 

• IIEST Shibpur is an Engineering college and will help you in getting a mostly office job. You will be guaranteed a job in core branches just after graduation.
• IISER Bhopal is more scientific research-oriented and will help you in getting research jobs at the end of the course. 

Therefore, choose either IIEST Shibpur or IISER Bhopal depending on what career you want to pursue. Don’t go with college popularity and rankings. If you have any goal just follow that and choose the right institution.

The syllabus of IIEST, Shibpur has remained pretty much the same over the years. At http://www.iiests.ac.in/images/all pdf/1-5STRUCTURES.pdf, you can find the structure for the 1st year.

The professor reveals the syllabus when the course begins (exact names of topics that will be covered in that semester). This syllabus keeps changing each year. Maybe it's not the same syllabus students had earlier. 

The professor either gives the paper directly after the course begins, or others do not have a habit of not giving it. You can feel free to ask your professor to give you the syllabus document in such a situation.

There are several means of transportation from Sealdah Railway Station, Kolkata to IIEST Shibpur campus, located in Howrah. All transportation modes are available from the bus stop near Big Bazaar, which is just 2 minutes walking from Sealdah Railway Station. 

The following points below state the possible and easily accessible modes of transport.

• There is a direct, white-colored bus, named “Beleghata –B garden”. There are buses every half an hour, which start at Beleghata, which is close to Sealdah and goes till B-garden. The route of this bus is through Vidyasagar Bridge, or commonly known as the second Hoogly bridge. It will drop you just in front of IIEST Shibpur.
• There is another option by breaking bus routes. People can take any bus towards Howrah, from Sealdah. From Howrah, there are several buses that go to college ghat. After reaching college ghat, it is just a two-minute walk to the IIEST campus.
• Other than the above two, there is the easiest option, which is taking a direct cab to IIEST Shibpur. It may cost around Rs. 200, depending upon cab surges.

These are the options to reach the IIEST campus located in Shibpur, Howrah, from Sealdah Railway Station.