Nirma University - [NU], Ahmedabad - associated department

One of my friends, who is working in Cognizant, has studied Electronics & Communication Engineering at Nirma University. As per her insights, the following are the things essentially wrong with the University.

• If you are pursuing ECE and inclined towards programming, it is problematic.
• There are companies like Motorola, ARM, STM, and others with 7.5 points as cut-off criteria. Even if you miss the cut-off by a margin, yet you cannot sit for interviews in these companies.
• Some of the faculty is discouraging. They focus on bookish knowledge and are not open to new ideas. It is more like a school than a college.
• Most top-scoring students are believed to be Idols, and the average scorers do not get any spotlight.
• The labs are well-equipped, but most of the instruments do not work. Practical teaching is like spoon-feeding.
• Attendance is given utmost importance on the campus. You will find students worrying more about attendance than academics.
• You cannot afford to become a defaulter as there are consequences for it. The minimum attendance should be 85%.

Overall, the only way all this can go smoothly is to change the mentality by focusing on why and what to learn, future benefits, and practical approaches.

Nirma University has been able to provide excellent placements to students for the various courses offered by the university.

The highest package offered last year from CSE Department was INR 46.27 Lakhs per Annum by an IT Company based in Bangalore. The average package offered to students for the past few years comes around to be INR 8 Lakhs per Annum.

• Apart from the CSE, the placements in other branches of Engineering have been pretty good as per the records. Around 95% of students get placed each year.
• Over 75 Companies visit the campus each year. Some major recruiters include Tech Giants like Oracle, TCS, Infosys, Morgan Stanley, Cognizant, and Amazon.
• L&T shortlisted 72 candidates in the first round of placement. MuSigma and many other mass recruiters are expected to visit the campus next year as well.

More details regarding placement at the university is provided in the table given below:

The placement of the university is with no doubt better than many colleges situated in Bangalore.

Nirma University has undergone a lot of improvement in facilities and campus with time in the last few years, along with its advancement in other aspects. 

A detailed description of the present life at Nirma University is stated below in points.

• The classrooms have 6 ACs, individual chairs, a projector, which makes them a lot more comfortable for students.
• In the library, students are now allowed to issue 5 books. There is an e-mail support system to notify students in case of an issue or deadline for renewal. 
• There is a lot of improvement in the food quality in the canteen, which is now managed by honest people. In addition, Wi-Fi is now provided to every student.
• The institute has the facility of a student academic calendar where everything is noted, from holidays to exam dates. 
• There is a strict 85% minimum criterion. If you are unable to reach the 85% mark you have to face extra assignments, which can be done in teams too because quite a good number of students face that.
• There are regular field trips arranged for students in modern technologies. Seminars and expert lectures are quite common too. Inside the campus, there are various technical and non-technical clubs that organize several events and workshops. 
• The institute's clubs organize NU-TECH, the techno-management fest of the institute, where there are plenty of opportunities to showcase talent. Students from the institute have also been successful in GSoC and published papers in IEEE.

Therefore, life at Nirma University is worth exploring, with a lot of learning and enjoyment. It gives the opportunity to gain actual value in every aspect, being in the institute.

Various institutes follow different procedures to convert CGPA into Percentage form. Nirma University also follows a unique procedure with which the CGPA scored by students of the University gets converted into the Percentage form. 

According to the university's guidelines, the student's performance is judged in terms of CGPA Score. After the CGPA score is allotted to every student, the score gets converted in the form of a percentage based on the following criterion:

Percentage score = (CGPA Score – 0.5) * 100

This is the process that the University follows to convert the CGPA score obtained by students into a Percentage score.

SVNIT is theoretical research-based while CEPT is more practice-oriented. If you are interested in pursuing a Ph.D. further or if you would like to get placed on-campus, then SVNIT is your place.

After matching your requirements focus on excelling at GATE to get structural engineering getting into structural engineering at SVNIT.

If you choose CEPT then you will have to work hard to get a job. It is well known in all of Asia and has one of the best civil engineers. The faculty is highly qualified, its alumni are working in MNCs and most of them get annual trips abroad.

Lastly, if you are not from Ahmedabad you will have to stay at the CEPT hostel which is an awesome place to stay, as you will see for yourself if you so choose to be.

Be mindful of the fees because both SVNIT and Nirma charge more about the quality they provide.

Most of the students of Nirma University get placed in companies like Wipro, Cognizant, Infosys, etc. There are companies like Samsung and Deloitte also visiting the campus but they only recruit a limited number of students.

• The strong points of the course are theoretical computer science high-performance computing, computer vision, artificial intelligence, networking, cybersecurity, etc. The faculty is committed and qualified.
• The same can be said about the students of the university. They are engaged in inter-disciplinary research, collaborating with different top industries.
• The university also boasts of a stellar alumni network and they are spread across companies like Oracle, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Bosch, HSBC, Intel, Google, etc.

The laboratories of the university are powered by networking equipment from CISCO, NVIDIA Volta, and GPU systems from Pascal. The highest package offered to the students of Nirma University was INR 46.27 LPA and the average package was INR 6.8 LPA.