Aligarh Muslim University - [AMU], Aligarh - Affiliated Colleges

Aligarh Muslim University is one of the most reputed universities in the nation. Its overall NIRF ranking is 19 while the law college ranks 11th. The college has a strong alumni network and innumerable legal icons are a product of this college who have rendered services for the highest authorities in the nation.

Notable points for admission process are:

• Exam name: AMU BA LLB or CLAT
• Eligibility: minimum 50% marks in 10+2
• Courses offered: LLB, BA LLB, LLM, Diploma
• Total seats: 220
• Tuition fees: 12,000 per year
• Teacher to student ratio: 1:20

The law college has a traditional approach and one might argue that the students are not provided with modern day learning methods and enough exposure as few of the other private institutes or the NLUs. But if one wishes to get into the judiciary, academics or civil services this is one of the best choices undoubtedly. The college boasts of a highly eminent and star studded, esteemed faculties also inviting reputed guest lecturers from time to time.

Placement Highlights:

Regular moot courts, seminars are organised to enable students to gain exposure. Key highlights about the placement statistics are:

• Median salary package offered is 10 lpa
• Highest package offered is 14 lpa
• Top recruiters being Aon Hewitt, ColumbiaAsia, ICICI, BPCL among many others
• Approximately 20% students selected by Judicial Services competitions of the country
• Placement rate over 70%
• Students get opportunity to intern under various district and high courts or in corporate sectors as well

Most students either pursue higher studies or start practising law and excel in whatever field they choose due to the immense knowledge gained at this institution. The college also increases exposure by adopting innovative practices like Practical Training Programme, Legal Internship Programme and Legal Literacy and Mass Awareness Programme in remote districts.

Aligarh Muslim University is one of the most reputed universities in the nation. Its overall NIRF ranking is 19 for the year 2020. It has a well recognized and felicitated team of faculty members who groom aspiring engineers to the standard of the leading organizations in the market.

Many reputed companies like TCS, Accenture, Infosys, IBM, JK Techno soft, HCL, Wipro, Bharti Telesoft and PSU's which include ONGC, IOCL, NPCIL participate in the recruitment drives. Over the years, the average placement rate has been over 60% with the average package at offer being between 4-7LPA. The statistics denote that for the computer science and electronics branch the placement rate has been higher, mostly over 75%. Key highlights of the 2017-18 placement session:

• 167 students got placed in companies like Wipro, Siemens, Adobe, Voltas among many others
• Highest package at offer was 15.5LPA
• Average package at offer was 8.7LPA

The 2018-19 placement season was a sombre one, the key highlights being:

• Average placement rate around 80%
• Highest package offered was 15.6LPA
• Average package offered was in the range of 3-5LPA

Apart from bagging jobs the students have also been offered internships by many MNCs and core government agencies. At first sight, it looks like the placement record isn’t that great but if one excels in the field of study then there are ample number of opportunities present.

AMU is ranked 33 among all the colleges in India in the 2020 NIRF rankings. The department of Economics was established in 1920. It has flourished well to be one of the main constituent departments of the Faculty of Social Sciences. The total fees of the course are INR 2.32 lakhs. The basic academic requirement for pursuing this course is B.A. with a minimum of 55% marks in aggregate and in Economics or a B.Sc. with a minimum of 55% marks in aggregate and minimum 60% marks in Mathematics/Statistics is eligible to apply for the course. A departmental test is conducted for the admission of students in this course and there are a total of 65 seats. The syllabus is updated regularly with the advancement in the subject, balancing emphasis on theoretical analysis with that on applied economics. This college also holds a good placement record, approximately over 100 companies visit the college every year for placement drive. The college has a good 85% placement rate maintained for the last 5 years. The median salary offered is around 5 LPA.

Mechanical engineering is the broadest discipline itself and it is good at both Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI). For the research perspectives in any specialized subjects of mechanical engineering, AMU is quite good and for exposure or entrepreneurship, JMI is the better option having 10th NIRF rank among Indian colleges.

Course Highlight

These are the aspects of mechanical engineering at both the colleges;

Faculty

AMU has about 50 faculty members whereas JMI has 25-30 faculty members. All the faculty members of both the colleges hold Ph.D. degrees and are well-experienced.

Laboratory

There are around 20 labs (4 : fluid mechanics, 6 : thermal engineering, 4: machine designing lab, and 8: industrial production) at AMU and 19 at JMI.

Placement 

JMI is much better than AMU at placement record, they offer an average salary package of 5-10 lakhs per annum. Companies like Siemens India, Cummins, Maruti Suzuki India Limitedlimited, Mahindra, and Mahindra, etc. visit the campus for placements through placement. 

The following graph shows a comparison between Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University based on their ratings:

The previous year's examination question papers of Aligarh Muslim University can not be found on the internet. The main reason behind that is AMU does not make their paper public.

If you want the previous year's papers, contact the members of the seminar library of the AMU chemistry department. Or else you can check the Maulana Azad Library about the previous year's papers of MSc. If you know any research scholars in the department, they might help you. Moreover, in Aligarh, there is a Shamshad market, famous for bookstores. You can buy reference books, previous year papers, etc. from the bookstores there.