Graphic Era University M.Tech Review By Saurabh Panwar

Dehradun which is a quaint city has ensured that even the weakest students get to study at a Top University. By top I mean, University with all facilities and NAAC accredited. Many call GEU a shop, which in many senses is true, but one also has to look at the kind of placements that it offers. Even if 50% students get placements, the ones who get, get more than reasonable placements. GEU’s Infrastructure and management is much better and the crowd is definitely the best in this quaint city. The location is a bit outskirt as it is the end of the city. Two years of conscious effort is what it took to pass from here because checking is tough and if someone passes all their semester exams means they have worked hard. If I was in college by now, I would have been forced to write certain things because more than guts, I would have been worried about my future.

Classes from morning to evening and an hour break, is all that we had. Right next to our lab, was the food technology lab and mind you, I have never seen such a lab in my life. Many told me, you will feel helpless once you enter college but with me, nothing like that happened as academics were tough and all the students who enrolled here have a different story in their UG program. So, that way, GEU was much better because the academic planning and schedule was upright.

I saw some faculties have passed out from GEU itself and that made me bothered on whether they will be able to teach us. The teaching was alright, but some biases and irrational markings did exist here. In some cases, I knew I had hardly written anything and I still scored well. In some, though, exactly the opposite happened, and that tells you the seriousness of the faculty. They were not serious for sure as they checked students' attendance and one with 75+ attendance got a few extra marks even if they haven’t done well in the exams. So, their teaching was more than acceptable to me, but their paper checking was beyond everyone.

Now forget about students getting placed with 50 Lakhs + jobs and all because they were all gimmicks. Our batch size was 200 and we had three sections. All sitting right next to each other, seeing right, left, and center. One in three had placements and that too in companies like Adobe, Wipro, TCS, and Tech Mahindra, among various others. M. Tech students who were placed had decent, or should I say good placements because 8 Lakhs or more was worth it. So, it wasn’t fake, one student from our batch even had a placement worth 20 Lakhs. Adobe has been the biggest recruiter at GEU as not M. Tech, but they also hired B. Tech students in volumes. The only concern was that no good internship was provided to us, from the University.

I joined the hostel and left it during the feel-free period. The food was such that students tried their best to convince their parents that they would die hungry here because the food was the worst I have ever had. In the evening, they used to serve us tea and bread pakoda. During my feel-free period, I took a pakoda extra and was warned that it’s one per student. I was devastated and called my parents immediately to get me off the hostel. The room quality, though, was superior to any hostels. It was a 2 BHK flat where four students resided. For UG students, there were more hostels and single, double, and triple occupancy rooms were available.

The campus is huge and many new building constructions are ON. The whole area is dominated by the Graphic Era, as from the Church Road to Bell Road, you will see their boards. The campus had a bank, a playground, multiple libraries and canteens to go by. The playground was relatively small, though, as the hostellers would capture them most of the time. One needs to have good mates with the hostel students to avail the sporting facilities. I was convinced with the Infrastructure; because I don't think anything more could have been done.

The crowd made our day, as it was simply outstanding. As M. Tech students didn’t have any time to have fun at the events, which was like an everyday thing. The University focused on education more than skills as they made the classes lengthy, and it was lab work and classrooms that kept us occupied for most part. For those who want to enjoy a great campus life, you can join the University from UG itself because many students from different streams have been placed. The University has tied up with major private agencies, who take care of placements but with some extra fees.