Aligarh Muslim University offers decent engineering courses. The course fee is nominal. The total course fees for B.Tech is around INR 10.63 lakhs. Departments like Mechanical and Electrical have good infrastructure. The faculty base for engineering is pretty good. Most of the faculty members have years of experience in teaching.
AMU engineering placements are decent. Students with good academic records get desired salary packages. Some of the major recruiters for the institute are Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, etc.
Aligarh Muslim University is good when compared to other private colleges. Discussed below are a few of the important features of the engineering programs at Aligarh Muslim University.
Faculty:
The faculty comprises some good teachers who are excellent in their field of work. There are some moderate teachers as well whose performance is not remarkable.
Labs and Workshop:
Student Crowd:
Coming to the topic of students, Aligarh University plays host to various types of students.
Placements:
AMU does not have a good placement record for engineering.
Only, few famous IT companies like TCS, Accenture, Adobe visit the campus placements. The students have little to do with the placement situation, the problem is with the management.
The tables below will give you a brief overlook of the engineering courses offered by the college.
Placement Rate |
50% |
Average Salary package (2020) |
>4LPA and <10LPA |
Course Fee |
10.63 lakhs |
The academics at the institute is quite good and you won’t need further coaching if you are planning to go for Govt. jobs. The college notes alone, are enough. Many of my classmates are working at ONGC, IOCL, NPCIL, CIL, SAIL, BHEL, NTPC, BARC, BEL, etc. Four of my friends also got selected in IES from the Civil branch.
Aligarh Muslim University is one of the most reputed universities in the nation. Its overall NIRF ranking is 19 while the engineering college, Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology (ZHCET), is ranked at 39 by NIRF. ZHCET offers admission into the seven specialisations under the BTech programme via the Aligarh Muslim University Engineering Entrance Examination (AMUEEE).
COURSES |
SEATS OFFERED |
MINIMUM AGGREGATE OF 50% IN CLASS 12TH OR 50% AGGREGATE IN DIPLOMA IN ENGINEERING FROM AMU |
TUITION FEES |
CHEMICAL |
30 |
19,000 PER YEAR |
|
CIVIL |
60 |
||
COMPUTER SCIENCE |
50 |
||
ELECTRICAL |
60 |
||
ELECTRONICS |
50 |
||
MECHANICAL |
90 |
||
PETROLEUM |
25 |
Table: seat distribution
Placement Details:
Many reputed companies like TCS, Accenture, Infosys, IBM, JK Techno soft, HCL, Wipro, Bharti Telesoft and PSU's which include ONGC, IOCL, NPCIL participate in the recruitment drives. Over the years, the average placement rate has been over 60% with the average package at offer being between 4-7LPA. The statistics denote that for the computer science and electronics branch the placement rate has been higher, mostly over 75%.
Key highlights of the 2017-18 placement session:
167 students got placed in companies like Wipro, Siemens, Adobe, Voltas among many others
Highest package at offer was 15.5 LPA
Average package at offer was 8.7 LPA
The 2018-19 placement season was a sombre one, the key highlights being:
Average placement rate around 80%
Highest package offered was 15.6 LPA
Average package offered was in the range of 3-5 LPA
Apart from bagging jobs the students have also been offered internships by many MNCs and core government agencies. At first sight it looks like the placement record isn’t that great but if one excels in the field of study then there are ample number of opportunities present.