Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) is a public engineering university, situated in Varanasi. The institute has tie-ups with the University of Cambridge (UK), University of Oxford (UK), University of Sheffield (UK). The institute has been ranked 10th and 11th in the categories engineering and overall by the NIRF rankings in 2019.
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With various international tie-ups, the institute has enhanced its learning experience and placement facilities. Recruiters from Indian and foreign companies visit the campus for placements. With IIT being a renowned university students bag top-notch placement offers. The institute boasts of a very high 75% placement rate, which makes it a good choice for students interested in the course.
The mining branch in IIT BHU is one of the ancillary branches(along with ceramics and Pharmaceutical Engineering) which most students often refrain from. Students often opt for the branch just with the hope of getting a better branch through branch change. Besides, the curriculum is very tough and it requires a humongous effort to get a decent CGPA in the mining branch.
Also, the branch doesn’t attract noteworthy companies for placements. Students are thus left with the sole option of getting acquainted with the coding culture for securing placements. Furthermore, the branch of Mining Engineering in India is not fully in consonance with the curriculum taught in foreign universities. However, it is pertinent to note that the branch does have considerable scope in many Coal and Mining companies.
So, if you have a profound interest in the branch, only then you should opt for it in IIT BHU Mining. Don’t just go for the IIT tag and choose a branch that offers ample opportunities, both in jobs as well as in further studies.
No, the IIT BHU hostels do not have attached washrooms. Even the rooms are shared, and you won’t get a single seater room facility over here. Most government colleges do not provide their students with premium facilities. IIT BHU is one of them.
Thus, IIT BHU only offers common washrooms to its students in the hostels.
M.Tech students (boys) of IIT BHU are allotted Aryabhatta Hostel I (Block A&B) and II (Block C&D).
It is a three story building that contains a large common room with TV, and a large dining hall. The hostel mess serves decent quality food. The hostel rooms are quite spacious, and they are two seaters. But whenever there’s a shortage of rooms, three students are allotted for each room, instead of two. But even then, there’s ample space for each occupant.
Each block has a garden. The washrooms are cleaned every afternoon, and are equipped with handwash and geysers. The two hostel canteens have all the basic items (including the basic food items), and their timings are 1:30PM-3AM and 7AM-10PM. On each floor, in each block, hot and cold purified water is available in the coolers. Each occupant is given a wooden cot, a table and a chair, and each room contains two cupboards. Decent wifi facilities are made available. The hostel celebrates every major festival with enthusiasm.
Overall, the M.Tech hostel at IIT BHU is quite decent.
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) is a public engineering university, situated in Varanasi. The institute is built over a massive 1300 acre campus with top-notch facilities It offers an online mode of admission. The institute has tie-ups with the University of Cambridge (UK), University of Oxford (UK), University of Sheffield (UK). IIT BHU has been ranked 10th and 11th in the categories engineering and overall by the NIRF rankings in 2019.
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Placements
Recruiters from Indian and foreign companies visit the campus for placements. However, civil engineering rarely helps students land good placements as compared to other courses. Still with IIT being a renowned university student bag decent placement offers which average around 8 lakhs per annum, while the highest package may go upwards of 15LPA.
With various international tie-ups, the institute has enhanced its learning experience and placement facilities. If you want good placements, it would be suggested you opt for a different branch of engineering.
The recent downloading speed is around 6 Mbps during the day as the traffic is very high. During the night the speed definitely increases but the increase is not that significant since people are awake at night too. When you are allotted your hostel rooms you will get an Ethernet cable. The speed might improve if you use the Ethernet instead of the wifi. In recent years a network with 1 Gbps bandwidth has been set up which resulted in good internet speed.
This might look very high speed to some people reading this answer, but actually this is a pretty normal speed considering its an IIT. IIT Roorkee has far better speed than this.
The department of Mining Engineering is one of the first few established at IIT BHU. It came into existence as early as 1923, as a department of Geology, Mining, and Metallurgy. The course structure of mining It includes mechanical, electrical, electronics, earth sciences, and even computer science. At the same time, if you get interested in physical work, then this department offers the most exciting field jobs.
The placements are perfect for mining engineering. Usually, the students have a choice for finance, marketing, analyst, coding, etc. Many students prepare for CAT and go to the IIM after pursuing mining engineering. As most of the software companies are open for placement to all the branches a lot of the students practice computer programming skills and choose software job profiles too.
The placement statistics for mining engineering at IIT BHU for 2019 show a total of 85 students got placed. The average salary package offered ranged between 10 LPA to 58 LPA.
So you will have decent placement offers and also chances to pursue higher studies after completing mining engineering from IIT BHU.
As per the latest highlights of IIT BHU placements, the average CTC for ECE students is around INR 20-22 LPA. Around 95% of students get placed from the branch each year. Most students are offered digital electronics-related profiles or SDE roles. Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, etc. are some of the major recruiters that take part in IIT BHU campus placement.
The placement statistics for MTech Chemical Engineering at IIT BHU are average at best. In recent years, the median CTC received by the students of this branch was 15 LPA. There are very few core companies visiting the campus placements for Chemical Engineering. This is the case for other IITs as well. Some of the recruiters that offered placement opportunities to M.Tech Chemical Engineering students in past are Deloitte, Amazon, American Express, Google, etc.
Academic wise IIT BHU is great, it offers good exposure as well. But if you are expecting whopping placement packages, you will be disappointed.
IIT BHU has several hostels, and each one of them has 2-3 messes. Different people are given contracts for each mess, on an annual basis. Around 150-200 students eat everyday in each mess. This entire system ensures that quality food is served in the messes. This many messes can’t have a single menu.
There is no fixed menu as such even if we consider a single mess. The ‘Maharaj’ i.e. the person in charge, keeps on including/removing dishes, based on the prices of raw ingredients. For lunch and dinner, there is roti, two-three kinds of rice, 2-3 kinds of vegetable curries, and 1-2 kinds of dals. Salad forms a part of these meals.
Fruit salads, sweets and cakes are given at least once a week. On Saturdays, poori-chhole and a few snacks are served alongside other regular items. Special food items like 2-3 types of parathas, noodles, dosa, idli, etc. are added to the menu at least once every 2 weeks. Eggs are served twice a week, and paneer items are served to vegetarians. Chicken, fish and mutton are served twice a week. You can pay separately and order egg bhurji, omelet and egg rice anytime from the mess. The mess charge is around Rs. 12,000 per semester.
Overall, the mess menu is quite decent at IIT BHU.