DYPIMCAM Akurdi MCA Review By Rohit Singh

DYPIMCA has many plus points and some of those are the scenic campus which is one of the biggest in Pune. All, in all chances of getting screwed are quite slim because the university doesn’t play politics with students and make sure that students are placed with the best organizations. One gets to witness max crowd here as even though the outsider quota here is 15%, the college has somehow managed it to 25%. I have followed the pattern that many MCA colleges follow and after analysing all the pros and cons, I took admissions here. Without any doubt DYPIMCA is one of the finest colleges of Pune for pursuing MCA. I can’t compare two products (colleges) of same parameters as I have been a part of DYPIMCA and can pass my judgment on that. It is one of the best universities at least to pursue MCA.

In MCA, one is dependent heavily on teaching because most students who did BCA or B.Sc (IT) were the ones who did MCA from here and we all could see the difference between both the courses. So, it became inevitable for the college to start from the scratch and to do that our classes went on till the 11th hour because even the faculties were shocked to see that we hardly knew anything. After spending long hours in college, self-study too became mandatory and classmates became way more important because everyone had their expertise in something or the other. I had some friends in PICT and they too helped me a lot because the course is even tougher than M. Tech for students who have done BCA before. For M. Tech only B. Tech students are eligible and they have the required knowledge and skills to take it further from there but not us.

Faculties had enough experience and all the knowledge to guide students and make them skilled that they at least find themselves takers at the placement drive. The faculties job was to make us ready and for that they did extra then they were supposed to. So, for that at least one round of applause because faculties as what I have seen aren’t that serious with their jobs but luckily both the colleges that I attended had some great faculties who stood up from their chairs and didn’t mind sitting until they were sure that they have prepared us.

DYPIMCA placement and training cell is very encouraging and intelligent too. We all were asked to come for training and they had a set of 10 questions with them. Those who didn’t answer a question were asked to step back and likewise when the 10th question came only a few were left. So those students were made volunteers as I myself was trained by one of my classmates. Now after all this exercise got over, the placement drive began and we all just cracked it and got placed in some of the best corporate houses like Amul India, Sanofi, Infosys, and others. The average was around a CTC of 6 lakhs but more than the payment it was the roles that satisfied me the most.

The institute has quite a few boys and girls hostels but hostels are divided among all the 11 colleges that are there at the campus. Hostels were both on campus and off campus. Off campus too were just at a distance of 100 meters. Some hostels were old while some were newly built. Again, if I compare DY Patil University hostels with that of Tribe Hostel than DY Patil hostels were nowhere close to it.

Well, the hostels may not be close to that of Tribe Hostel but overall infrastructure was indeed one of the best in Pune. Our building Computer lab was laced with latest machines and software. The library too there was plenty but our departmental library which was also shared by the management college was enough to get all the research material. The ground of the college was at least better than previous international stadium of Pune, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. Apart from cricket too there were facilities for various other sports too like the basketball court, the volleyball court, and a badminton court to name a few. The canteens were just worth it as there were four, I guess along with some food trucks that used to serve food at the campus during the college hours.

After Symbiosis, the second-best crowd that you will see in Pune universities can be seen at Dr. D. Y. Patil University. The college calendar boasts events all throughout the year as there were 11 colleges in one campus and even if every month one college had their event means all year round, we had events. The common event of all the colleges was Fahrenheit and students of Symbiosis too were invited there to perform and even they appreciated our events.