Swami Vivekanand Subharti University M.Tech Review By Bharti Rana

SVSU is one of the largest Universities in India. There are around 15,000 students studying at the University as around 3,000 staff including teaching and non-teaching staff stay at the campus. Subharti University Meerut has its entrance though they accept GATE scores too. I have spent one year at the campus though, I missed a few months due to Covid and that was the time when I dearly missed the University.

Classrooms are little old as the painting work was done during Covid. The smart classrooms have projectors and all, installed. All the presentations were done at the seminar hall which was centrally air-conditioned. In the weekly schedule there is one compulsory workshop and then optional workshops are arranged. Every semester we had to do one project like for electronic students we have to do an Arduino based project and it also has to be creative. Right now, I am sent for my internship program at BHEL in Haridwar as mandatory summer internship is compulsory at SVSU. Academics are thus far great and we have been promised that before entering the final semester, we will be eligible for placements. I have come from my internship and am reviewing this as I want people to know about SVSU.

In engineering streams including UG and PG there are over 120 faculties for sure. In all, if I consider all the courses available at the University because there are 20, then, nearly 2000 faculties are there at the campus. The student to faculty ratio is great in M. Tech because students are less but the faculties are high. Each one of us receives personal assistance from the faculty and that has made our bond stronger with our faculties, than ever. We have also spent a fair bit of time by doing online classes as the Colleges went off in January and begin only by the end of February. The only thing that I missed about the University was our faculties.

All the hostels have been named after freedom fighters or people who have done well for the country. Likewise, girls' hostels are named Rani Ahilyabai, Rani Chennamma, Savitribai Phule, Ahilyabai Holkar, and Bhagini Nivedita among others. The boy’s hostels were also named likewise as the boys' hostels were named as Dr. Kotnis, Veer Hakikat Rai, Lachit, and Shaheed Udham Singh among many others. There are nothing called juniors or seniors at the hostel. There’s one rule that in each floor three staff of the University from doctor to sweepers stay on our floors. The hostel rooms were cleaned twice in a week and no ragging or late-night parties were allowed at the hostels.

The University area is around 250 acres and there are 10-12 streets inside the campus. What’s common is that just like the hostel, the streets of the campus are also named after freedom fighters. What’s unique about the campus is that there are three hospitals at the campus and students can be treated for free if we get our check-ups done at the campus. There are around 60 buildings at the campus and there is also a hotel at the campus and one five-star hotel is being constructed inside the campus. There’s a four-floor shopping mall at the University that has a branch of OBC, and PNB. There are three salons, kulfiwala, chaat wala, and juice center at that mall. The campus has a Mars Café which is a start-up of the students studying there. No matter what, all the birthday cakes at the campus are made there and mind you they are too yumm. The main auditorium ‘Mangalya Auditorium’ is one of the largest auditoriums in India as Rajnath Singh came there and he himself said that he hasn’t seen such an auditorium even in Delhi Colleges. The only problem is that the University is a little low maintained, as students are a little uncivilized and they keep throwing garbage here and there.

Placements here are 100% as last year I saw a mega placement fair was organized by the University and around 50 companies came and hired the students. From B. Tech to M. Tech, almost all the students were placed through that fair. I hope for a bigger fair this time, so that I can have placements which I missed in my UG College.

There are ‘n’ number of facilities at the campus. Every department has their fest but the annual fest ‘SPANDAN’ which is a sports and cultural event that is celebrated at SVSU. The event is a 7-day fair and is more of an inter-college fest that is organized at our campus. Having said that, there's no other College in this area that has such an infrastructure. SVSU was not by choice, but by chance, as my parents wanted me to do PG from here, as I come from Baghpat; which is 8-10 kms from Meerut.