Academy of Technology B.Tech Review By Abhishek Anand

Overall, it is a good college. I chose this college because of the rank I got in WBJEE. Placements were good at that time, but on my passing year, the scenario has changed, unfortunately. I'm hoping it'll improve. It is a good place to start your engineering journey.

There are lots of courses offered under B.Tech like CSE, CSBS, EE, EEE, ECE and ME. Generally, there are 3 ways anyone can take admission, such as WBJEE, JEE MAINS and Management Quota. I have chosen a B.Tech in CSBS (Computer Science and Business Systems). It is a course designed by TCS. It has a lot of new subjects compared to traditional CSE, but there is not much difference. If you are getting CSBS or CSE both are equivalent. It has lots of subjects related to Data Science relevant fields.

Faculties are good. Everyone has done their Master's degree and Ph.D (some have ongoing Ph.D). They have good knowledge. The main problem I faced is that if you are a non-Bengali speaker, then you are going to face a lot of problems because faculties use Bengali language a lot to explain things. Though you told them to speak in English, they will start speaking in English as long as someone asks them in Bengali, and then they shift to Bengali. That's the problem I faced in my journey. Some teachers will teach in English but mostly have the problem of teaching in Bengali. But they will explain in English if you ask.

And our placement was very good until the 2024 batch placements. In my passing year, due to recession, no company is hiring, so our placement's condition is very bad. Almost 60% of people are unplaced until March. Though 3-4 months left before the 8th semester, I don't know what will happen. But before that, almost everyone has at least 1 job in their hands. We have great placements before 2024.

I am not a hosteller as I lived in a mess (outside hostels not under the control of college). But I have lot of friends from the hostel. So basically they are very strict. Food is not good and it is costly compared to what you can get in the mess. You have to return to the hostel before 7 pm. So they are very strict. I will suggest looking outside in the mess. You can get room under Rs 2000 and flooding under Rs 1500-2000 in the mess.

In the college there are 5-6 blocks where each blocks consists of specific branch like computer science block, mechanical block, accounts block etc. College has a library and students can get the semester books from there. We have a basketball court, a volleyball court, and a medium-sized football or cricket ground inside the college. There are also two auditoriums.

Honestly, there is no very good campus life because there is No Wi-Fi in the campus. Most students are day scholars (they come to college daily and return to their homes), so after college, there are very few people on campus. There is very little focus on sports activities. Now, good things are that there are a lot of groups for different activities, student chapters, fests (Arcadia) (once a year), and lots of competition by different student chapters throughout the year.