This story took place in the first year of my sister’s course. During the first semester exams, the area witnessed heavy rain for about 4 to 5 days. Due to the rains, the grounds of the campus and the area around the hostel were completely flooded. With cows on the campus, their primary source of nutrition had vanished.

One of my sister’s friends forgot to lock the room door on the day of the chemistry exam. When he returned, he looked around the room to check for his belongings. Bed, clothes, books, cow, cupboard. A cow!

Truth to be told, there really was a cow in a corner of his room eating away at his books. The first book to be nibbled page by page was PW Atkins Physical Chemistry, an essential chemistry textbook. It seemed like the cow knew how to eat a book as it was eating it page by page. It had started with the cover and was on page 176 by the time my sister’s friend reached. It was of course imperative to get the bovine out of the room.

Looking at the commotion, a small crowd had also gathered and the cow refused to leave despite multiple attempts. Poking with a broom didn’t help either. What was worse than it had switched over to eating Richard Feynman’s Lectures on Physics and these three books were collectively worth INR 2500. My friend clearly didn’t want to bear that sort of damage. Finally, someone grabbed the cow’s tail which somehow got it to leave and out of the hostel.

The cow definitely found these two subjects easier to digest than students. It was a wild day. They even found white cow dung a few days later.

Follow this route to reach Brainware University from Howrah station. This is the most convenient and easy to follow.

• Take a GT Road and cross Ganga from the Bally Bridge, take Belgharia Expressway to Jessore road. After that take Thakurnagar Panchpota road and your destination will be there.
• Apart from this, there’s another way. From Howrah station, you will get a bus called L238. Take the bus and get down at Barasat Chapadali More. From there, you will get auto or other vehicles to reach Brainware University. It only takes around 5-10 minutes. 

This should give you an idea as to how to reach Brainware University.

PRN (Permanent Registration Number) is a 16 digit unique number that is also referred to as the roll number of a student provided by this university. 

While applying for any course at Mumbai University, you are required to fill an online application form and after submitting this form the data is stored by the system. The data is used to find whether or not you are eligible. If you are eligible for admission then you will be provided with the 16 digit number known as PRN and it will remain the same throughout the registration period.

This PRN number can be used as a reference number for any kind of contact or communication with the university

So, the PRN number of a student is basically the reference or roll number which will be used throughout your graduation period. 

You will probably not find any clear-cut packages from the college. You will have to develop your skills in the four years of your college life and market those. The recruiters usually hire students on this basis.

However, you will realize that if you have a passion for engineering, you will like to study at Bhartiya Vidyapeeth college. The faculty is good with excellent quality of education. This will enable you to develop the skills you require.

When it comes to placements - 

• The college places more than 90% of its students in companies like Ernst & Young, ZS Associates, and a few startups as well. 
• They had an average package of INR 4.25 LPA to INR 6 LPA.
• On the day of our recruitment, most of the students were placed in TCS with an average package of INR 3.25 lakhs per annum. 
• A few other companies that also hired students included Compro technologies, Indigo, CB & I, Global Logic, etc. All of these had an average package of INR 4 lakhs per annum.

The college tries its best to ensure that each and every student gets placed. If you are unable to be present for on-campus recruitment, they do assist with off-campus links which will help you.

Going by the trends that we have come across in recent years, any non-Keralite has to secure a rank under 2000 in order to get shortlisted.

There might be a case that a particular branch has performed exceptionally well and even a rank below 2000 doesn’t seem to help. In that case, you have to wait for upcoming lists.

• There are some students who have a lesser rank than yours, who have been shot-listed. This is because of the choice of their subjects. 
• For example, the closing rank for Fire and Safety is 300-500 and that for Computer Science and Electronics & Communication is 1500-1800. 
• If you realize that you don’t have a good rank, it's better that you don’t opt for those subjects as your first option. 
• Getting admission into the first campus is obviously tougher than the second one. But if you are subject-specific, you can go for the second campus.

The worst-case would be, you might have to wait for all the admissions to get over for “on the spot admission”. This aims at filling up the left-out seats. But this is just a fluke. It would be better if you don’t depend entirely on this and keep looking for other options at the same time.