DIT University B.Tech Review By Saurabh Panwar

Students with 60 or more percentage in 12th are eligible for admissions in 'DIT'. There was everything online, but I personally came to the College before joining as I wanted to see the College before I joined. The College is located on Mussoorie Road and its 20 kilometers away from the most visited hill stations in India. Now the location box was ticked, and then came the admission process part. More than the management, I found the University guards and assistants more helpful as I asked them a thousand questions and they answered them honestly. Some honest thoughts of them made me think, whether I should or should not opt for this College. As they say, though beggars can’t be choosers; I had to take admissions here as my entrance scores were quite low. Also, if I would have tried some other Colleges, they would have been the same, or rather worse. If you find my review too defaming or too flattering, I repeat that I have shared my own experiences here.

An IT engineer student needs a coding culture to grow. At DIT, competitive coding was quite sparse as all were taught the same things and in most cases, the students were mixed to make the competition sparse. So, the motivation went downhill soon, as the more ironic part was that ECE and CSE students, who deal more in hardware than software, became more adept in coding. So, maybe the IT department of the University is not as good as the others. There were some societies at the University like Microsoft Student Community, Google Student Community, and the best of them all: CodeGenX. I was late in joining them and you please don’t do that, as these societies are run by some top students who genuinely help students. However, the question is still not answered about competitive coding. All these societies will help with technology and project-based coding but hardly focus on ‘Competitive Coding’.

Faculties were up and down, as they were more inclined in collaborating with students of different branches for studies. In many classes, they took joint classes for the CSE, IT, and ECE branches. Yet, one good thing that they did was rather than explaining us algorithms, technology, and data structure, they taught us machine learning, signal processing, and embedded systems which were not IT subjects, but we realized their importance only after we reached the final semester. So, faculties didn’t focus much on the core subjects but were rather interested in making collaborations.

There were bubbles inside the campus and the bubble in which you are will ensure your placement. One thing common in all bubbles was that there were three companies for placements. Cognizant, Wipro, and Infosys. All the companies offered the same packages of 3-4 LPA and you can brag that you have two offers, but the honest answer is, all the companies offered more or less the similar package. Yes, there was a dream company that offered some dream packages too and that was ‘Hike’. However, only a certain portion of students got the opportunity to have a dream job from the campus.

The hostels were divided well enough, as UG students had their own hostels and PG their hostels. For the first two years, I stayed at the junior hostels of the campus, which was 'Sarabhai Hostel'. Most hostels were the same; junior hostels had triple sharing rooms, while some hostels had single rooms. I was never in favor of staying along, as one can have fun at the hostel while they are teenagers. With hostel life, I have no complaints, but with food I do. Luckily, at some distance we had numerous food joints that took complete care of us, whenever the hostel food was below par.

All buildings are of the same color, size, and shape. When you enter the main road, you will be amazed to see the cleanliness, and students wearing uniforms because in all these areas, the University was quite strict. The campus is huge and is located where you can see the backdrop of mountains. The College had a huge playground and the altitude was such that the ball just traveled. So, playing at the grounds was fun. There were few canteens, but the food joints outside the campus were rather better. The 'Red Mug Café', and The 'Foodversity Café' was full of 'DIT' students all day round. The Infrastructure was well structured as it’s hard to point out flaws in that.

The best part of DIT was that I hardly had 8-10 quiet days at the campus. If it were exams or inspection, then it’s a different thing, but other than that, students would sit in groups in lawns and chit chat carefree. The University was full of events, as you will see on the notice board, that all are invited to the auditorium for this and that event.