My friend is an alumnus of Manipal University Jaipur. Here are some snippets of her experience.

Curriculum:

My friend is from the CSE department. According to her, the curriculum is well-designed but she did have some gripes. Automata Theory and Compiler Design are clubbed together in the syllabus which does not give the scope to explore the Compiler Design part in depth. Open electives are not given much emphasis. The syllabus is vast but the topics are not discussed in detail.

Facilities:

The college has also tied to Coursera so that most courses with a credential can be accessed for free. You get one free year of Azure Cloud, and a Matlab student license is also available at the college if you want it.

Peer Group:

You will get to meet people from all over the country. The coding culture at the campus is great. You will find students working on C++ meta programs, Unity games, script kiddies, robotics, etc. There are students who have cracked GSoC, won hackathons, even went abroad to conduct research.

Faculty: Although the view regarding faculties is subjective, my friend only had good things to say about the CSE faculties.

Events: The quality of events has improved over the years. It conducts many hackathons around the academic year. Every year the institute also conducts TedXMUJ.

Internships:

• There are a lot of start-ups in Manipal, so securing an internship is not that difficult.
• Companies like Dell also conduct hackathons to select students for internships.
• There’s also IAESTE LC MUJ, a student-run function of IAESTE. Through which you can get internships in foreign countries such as Turkey, Germany, Poland, etc.

Placements: The average salary package was 5.3 LPA while the highest recorded CTC was 42 LPA.

MS Opportunities: There are many students from the institute doing their MS from institutes like Cornell, University of Texas, Carnegie Mellon, and others.

The hostel facility is great and Manipal as a city is quite vibrant. You will definitely have a good time at the institute.

One of my friends studied at NUJS. According to her, hardships have varied reasons from academics to personal.

• The Cases/readings are worth easily 500 pages every day, preparing summaries/case briefs, Tutorials and then projects, presentations, vivas, and the tiring final semesters all comprise the academic hardships.
• Due to internships, you will miss your vacations. Internships are a temporary glimpse into what life will be like.
• After getting the grind to excel and to get placed / PPOs, some students suffer from existential crises, emotional upheavals, urge for infinite sabbaticals, etc. 
• The burden of studies and placements takes a toll on your personal life. 
• Case briefs become a reason for discord rather than unity. 
• The healthy competition suddenly gets replaced by a rat race. 

Lastly, all the things like hobbies, extra-curricular, etc. disappear. But even after all the hardships, it still is the best time of a student’s life at NLSIU.

One of my friends graduated from Symbiosis Centre of Media and Communication, let me share some of her experiences at the institute -

• They offer a niche and one-of-a-kind MBA program in Communication Management.
• The subjects range from Business Statistics, Managerial Economics, Marketing Management, Public relations, Advertisement to Cultural Studies, Film Criticism, Media, and Communication Industry, Consumer Behavior, etc.
• You get corporate and media industry exposure.
• 60% of the faculty are from the Industry who bring real business scenarios to the classroom. You get to learn from industry experts, network with them, and gain insights.
• The in-house faculty are equally qualified and equipped with years of industry experience.
• You have to do an NGO Internship and Summer Internship, after 1st and 2nd Semester respectively. They have live projects.
• During the course, you are encouraged to work on various events and projects with companies and associations.
• There are active clubs in college like writing, dramatics, music and dance, sports, events, photography, design, etc.

Students who can work hard and are up for experiential learning can easily adjust with culturally diverse individuals. You can make it big in the world of media and communication, this place will aid in their journey.

My brother graduated in B.Tech (CS) from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology. I have heard about the advantages and disadvantages of enrolling in SLIET.

Campus:-
 

• The campus is moderately large with 448 acres.
• Fully furnished labs, well-maintained furniture, and a huge library with a good collection of books and journals, and research papers. 
• It has 13 clean hostels with a very good connection of high-speed LAN. It has sports facilities, medical services, a temple, a Gurudwara, ATM, banks, a shopping complex, and student activity centers.
• One huge stadium to play multiple sports such as cricket, football, etc, a swimming pool, one beautiful lake, and two ponds, a hygienic canteen, and a restaurant with multiple eating joints.

Placements:-

If you spend your four years in this university, it wouldn’t be a waste of your money. Earlier, the placement of this college wasn’t good enough but last year a total of 41 companies visited the university and 195 students got placed in the best companies. Due to COVID, the placement is still in progress.

The top recruiters who came to the university in 2020 were Cognizant, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Nestle India, Capgemini, Softstar, Nature Bio Food, TCS, Ralson, Godrej, and many more. 

Thus, the University keeps academics on priority and fun at the same time.

Sikkim Manipal University is a decent institute, with a diverse crowd, and some excellent placement records. The points below are a brief overview of all considerable aspects of Sikkim Manipal University.

• The campus is situated in a remote location. The internal infrastructure is moderate. But, students always head towards a successful career.
• Companies like TCS, which is a major recruiter of the institute, consider SMIT as a tier-1 institute. Even some NITs are not falling under the tier-1 category.
• Wells Fargo recruits students from only 4 colleges in India- BITS, RV College, VIT Vellore, and SMIT. This makes it evident that SMIT is popular among MNCs.
• Several alumni of SMIT are employees in top companies like Oracle, Google, Microsoft, etc. 
• Due to the corporate exposure and reputation established by Well Fargo, it is considered that students from SMIT are quite creative, opportunistic, and energetic in their service. 

There may be several problems that you may face in SMIT through the course of 4 years, but in the end, everything comes into place. Therefore, students are left with no regrets, getting an immense set of opportunities from SMIT.

One of my friends studied at Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). According to him, there are a lot of things that make it better among others.

• The university gives you a lot of course options across different disciplines. You can explore the variety.
• You can explore other disciplines, combining subjects like Psychology, History and even Film studies.
• Every semester will be more exciting than the other. 
• Your semester will begin with attending classes of different courses in which you are interested and then enrolling for it. 
• Here, you can design your academic year. For example if you do not like reading Dickens and Hardy, AUD will give you an option to choose what you like.
• There is no traditional end of year exam as in other colleges. 
• Here, you will be credited for the process of learning not merely on the product of learning. 
• You will have presentations, term papers, assignments, seminars throughout. There are also end-sem exams.
• The medium of teaching is English, for students who have language related issues can opt for the language cell. There is a fee waiver scheme for those who cannot afford. 
• The Ehsas clinic helps students to deal with any kind of psychological issues. 
• Lastly, if you perform well in each semester you can also get a scholarship.

The Heritage of AUD is exceptional. The environment is welcoming and accepting for students across the globe.