My brother completed his PGDCM from NICMAR Pune. The placement in NICMAR Pune is really good. In comparison to other civil engineers, you will be paid slightly more. The only disadvantage is the high fee structure of the institute. 

The current placement stats of NICMAR is as follows. 

I recommend that you acquire a job and take a NICMAR part-time or distance course. You will be given the name NICMAR and will have to spend less money. In addition, you will not lose your two-year income or experience. So, it's best to get a job first and then enroll in NICMAR.

NICMAR is a well-reputed college offering various full-time as well as distance learning courses to its students. 

Although the course curriculum and faculty members of this college are quite good, choosing a Distance Learning Education Program depends not only on what the college has to offer you but also on what career stage you currently belong to.

• For Fresher students, choosing a distance learning course might not be such a good call as they will not be able to relate to many concepts being taught.
• But on the other hand for candidates with prior work experience, a distance learning course from NICMAR may give their career a much-needed push in the right direction along with an option to change the current job profile. Also, it will open up the door for promotion opportunities in your current profiles.

In case you are a fresher then you opt for a full-time course. And if you are a person with prior work experience then you can choose distance learning programs at NICMAR, as the students with prior work experience will be able to relate to the concepts easily.

According to the reviews online, basically, the facilities that the hostel of NICMAR provides are innumerable. 

• The size of the hostel is appropriate.
• The hostel warden and other staff listen to every issue and try to resolve them as soon as possible, which include plumbing, electricity connections, and many others. 
• The housekeeping and maintenance of the hostel are excellent due to which regular checks are done. 
• Everything is maintained accordingly and thereby keeping a record of everything, and providing the necessary things to students when they require. 
• But there are of course some strict rules that are told in the orientation itself. 
• All the students should abide by some certain set of rules like no smoking inside the hostel or campus area, no one is allowed to go out after the decided time by the authorities, there should not be any loud music played inside the hostel so that others should not get disturbed, and many more that are necessary.

Last but not least we can conclude that NICMAR provides all the facilities in the hostel that are needed to live there easily and try to make the hostel the second home of the students so that they can make their college as well as hostel life memorable.

NICMAR is a good and reputed college with a stellar placement record. The 2018-2020 batch had over 90% placement percentage with more than 120 companies visiting the NICMAR (Pune) Campus for recruitment. 

Mostly, the companies tend to offer similar packages for ACM as well as PEM. However, what does make a difference to it is the prior work experience of the candidates. So, it has got more to do with the individual capability than the branch, where higher salary placements are concerned.

Placement Opportunities:

• Placement opportunities in NICMAR for ACM are a little more as compared to those of PEM. 
• In the 2020 placements of the institute, 571 students from Advanced Construction Management got successfully placed whereas Project Engineering and Management saw 239 student placement.
• Some of the frequent companies visiting the campus are Tata Consulting Engineering, Wipro Water, Reliance Industries, OYO Rooms, etc.

Do consider all your options before making a final choice. However, on the feedback received from some of the alumni of the institute, I would recommend you for Advanced Construction Management rather than Project Engineering and Management.

IIT Delhi and IIT Madras offer a Post-Graduation in Construction Technology and Management. To secure a seat at either of the institutes, you must obtain a good rank in the GATE examination.

IIT Delhi gives more weightage to the technical aspects of the course, while NICMAR focuses more on the managerial aspects of Construction. The curriculum of the course is unmatched, yet the placements, at times, can be quite unanticipated. 

Both the courses are quite equivalent to each other on various stages whatsoever. But, when the decision boils down to which among the both is better, then IIT Delhi might win the race.

Now, the Transportation Engineering department from IITs is indeed a great course. The average package some of my seniors from this course secured was about INR 5 LPA. However, by all means, your placement partially also depends upon whether or not you are typically prepared for it. 

NICMAR, keep in mind that you have never been known to add a lot of value to students interested in core construction. My brother is a NICMAR graduate, and yes, it helps because there is no other institute from which the construction industry can recruit students.

NICMARians can work in non-core construction jobs, but never in Core Construction. Furthermore, they have a serious attitude problem because construction does not always go as planned.

Spending Rs 13 Lakhs in this market is not a good investment. As the average CTC offered at the institute is 6 LPA, according to the recent placement highlights. 

In terms of student content, NICMAR has never had a lot of credibility. Yes, it is a good filtering process, and thus companies use NICMAR because it allows them to choose from a pre-filtered lot.

Basically, it has been seen over years that getting a question paper would be difficult as the officials usually take the question paper back once the exam gets over. 

If you have applied for NCAT, you will get a mail from the college regarding the call letter for the entire admission process and in that they attach the link for the sample paper. Otherwise doing R.S. Agarwal is the best option for preparation.

Lastly, we can say that do not rely only on sample paper, start practicing and they attach the link for the sample paper so that you get an idea regarding the same.

Placement for quantitative serving at NICMAR is good. A lot of people get an average package of 6 lakh per annum even though they are fresher. According to the recent placement highlights the highest CTC offered at the institute was 12 LPA. Hence, it is worth it. So, you can definitely choose the course if you want to do quantity serving for most of your career. 

Considering all the growth in the infrastructure sector of India, there is a good scope for it and it will go on like this for the next 5-6 years.

QS has been a favorite for almost all the fresh graduates. As it has a better ROI as compared to a full-time two-year course. You should not opt for it as a career just because you like the subject in your engineering syllabus. 

It would be better for you to get on a job on-site first. You can work for a year or two and understand the activities that go on around. During this period, you will also understand if you can do a full-time QS job. And then if you are still interested, you can go for it. QS has an unlimited scope with several growing projects in India and abroad so you need not worry about that. 

One of my friends studied at NICMAR. According to him, the scope of a project manager in any sector, unlike only in construction, can change or be in the same field later on in his career.

You get the overall view and conception of a project manager. It is majorly the course’s purpose.

Generally experienced people go for this course, but even if you are a fresher this course provides the same scope.

The course covers subjects like construction management at an advanced level, contracts management, quantity surveying, financial studies. They also teach many project management software like Microsoft Project, Primavera, Candy, etc.

Many top companies come every year to hire candidates with packages around 6-8 LPA. Therefore it is a good choice to study at NICMAR.

Quantity Surveying and Contract Management (QSCM) is an excellent course offered by NICMAR Hyderabad. You will be able to study almost all of the important subjects included in the ACM curriculum. Contract management, arbitration and conciliation, rate analysis, and valuations are all considerations.

Project management software like Primavera P6, MSP, Candy CCS, are also included in the Qscm and Acm curricula.

I've been in touch with alumni from the QSCM batch, and they're doing well in the industry. The majority of them work in Gulf countries for some of the best construction firms and Project Management Consultancies, while the rest work as Managers in domestic companies.