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No, not at all. Canadian universities are generally public universities and therefore standards are maintained across the board. They also cost less to attend. The only American universities that could conceivably be judged as significantly better are the very expensive ivy-league universities in the States.That being said, American universities tend to much more market-driven and revolve a lot more around recreational pursuits and sports (including sports scholarships) so if that's your idea of "better" then that's where you'd want to attend. However, I've been reading some rather disturbing info. about the lax standards at some of them so make sure you are attending one with a great academic reputation because school can't all be about partying. Please take a look at some of the documentaries out there about the problem...P.S. I found an interesting article written by Ren Thomas. I agree with him, in Canada you pick your school according to the best program, not according to the best school. Ex. if you want to go into nursing, you research the best nursing programs in Canada.Ren ThomasM.A., Ph.D. (Planning)Does Canada have an Ivy League?There is a lot of debate out there about whether or not there are schools in Canada equivalent to the American Ivy League (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale). I’m not sure why this is so important for people to know, but I do know that as a potential applicant for teaching positions at US universities, an Ivy-League education is considered the best. Even in Canada, loyalty to the old prestigious universities is not in the least diminished by Maclean’s annual rankings.As a Canadian, I don’t know anyone who did an undergraduate degree at an Ivy League school, so my first introduction to the concept was when my classmates in landscape architecture began applying for masters programs over a decade ago. Inevitably, they chose to apply to American Ivy League schools like Harvard and Cornell. Interestingly, their main reason was that “all the famous landscape architects went there.” (not surprising: Harvard was the first landscape architecture program in North America and the only one for many years). Having visited the Graduate School of Design and seen their students’ work around this time, we were surprised to find that our work was quite comparable to theirs; in some cases, better. One friend, who applied to and finished a Harvard Masters in Planning, said that the main advantage of the school was the alumni network, which would ensure he could find jobs anywhere. The Harvard degree also exposed him to very prominent experts and guest lecturers. Even more interesting, he is now living and working with many of our former classmates who did not invest in Ivy League educations. The same applies to a couple of our classmates who attended Cornell for the Masters in Architecture, and now work at architecture firms with others with “less prestigious” degrees.The thing is, Canadians know about the American Ivy League, but we don’t really get it. I mean, we get that they’re prestigious and expensive and old. But we’re hampered by the fact that universities in Canada are virtually all public institutions, and there are few expensive, elite blue-blood institutions in the country aside from elementary and secondary schools like Branksome Hall and Ashbury College. According to theCanadian Information Centre for International Credentials, there are 94 universities in Canada (83 with degree-granting status) belonging to the Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada. There are 27 private colleges, the vast majority being theological schools: when you take these out, there are only 6 left. Tuition costs at Canadian schools are much cheaper than American schools, although generally the older, larger schools cost a bit more and since tuition deregulation in the 1990s the professional programs can charge more than the standard tuition. They can also offer more funding, so it evens out: even Statistics Canada found that there has been little decrease in the proportion of lower-income students attending university now than before tuitions began their rapid ascent in the 1990s. So the Ivy League is a tradition we simply do not have here. Ditto those other prestigious American schools that are supposed to impress us. American students enrolled at Canadian schools often find their introductory conversations go a bit like this:Canadian: So you’re from Pennsylvania?American: Yes. I went to XXX School. (pause for reaction)Canadian: Oh yeah? (blank stare)American: (confused) It’s a really good school.Canadian: Ohhhh. (realizing the faux pas in not knowing the names and reputations of all 45670 American schools) Well that’s great. (unimpressed)That’s right, I said it: we don’t know your schools the way you don’t know our prime ministers. Or our provinces. Or our capital.That said, the four universities that many consider to be the “Canadian Ivys” are the University of Toronto, McGill University, Queens University, and the University of British Columbia. The only logic to this seems to be that they are old and therefore have ivy-covered buildings! These schools, because of their age, have extensive and well-known alumni who teach, do research, win Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, and otherwise propagate the mythology of their being better schools than the rest. There is also something called the Group of Thirteen, which includes the above-mentioned schools plus the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, Dalhousie University, Université Laval, MacMaster University, Université Montréal, University of Ottawa, University of Waterloo, and University of Western Ontario. These schools meet informally twice a year to discuss joint research initiatives and between them hold 66% of Canada Research Chairs, which is proportional to the amount of research funding they bring in from SSHRC, NSERC, and CIHR. And if I’m going to be honest, these schools probably get more famous guest lecturers.But the Maclean’s rankings show a very different story: each school has very different strengths. The magazine divides Canadian universities into three categories: primarily undergraduate, comprehensive undergraduate, and medical doctoral universities. The schools are evaluated on a range of characteristics, including spending on student services and scholarships and bursaries, funding for libraries, faculty success in obtaining national research grants, and their reputation for being innovative. The top-ranked primarily undergraduate schools are Mount Allison and University of Northern British Columbia. The top-ranked comprehensive undergraduate schools are Simon Fraser and University of Victoria. And the top-ranked medical doctoral schools are McGill, Queens and Toronto. Some schools have highly-ranked business or teaching programs, others are strong in medicine or law. Indeed, some of these professional programs are known in their individual fields as “the best.” Some have a small student-to-teacher ratio, others have better resources or funding. And then there are the student favourites, typically small schools with a friendly atmosphere in a beautiful location, like Mount Allison.I attended two of the supposed “Canadian Ivys”: University of Toronto and University of British Columbia. I know only a handful of people at either of these universities who attended a private school before entering these seemingly august institutions (ie., these aren’t the elites of society). I don’t believe that these schools have better students, better teaching, or better facilities than other schools in the country: in some cases, Maclean’s shows they fail in all three areas. Graduates of these schools don’t seem to conduct themselves any differently, have access to better alumni networks, or get better jobs than graduates of other schools. While working as a landscape architect in England, for example, I ran into graduates from the universities of Guelph and Waterloo who were working for British municipalities; in Ottawa I met many government employees who were graduates of Université Laval, Carleton University, and the University of New Brunswick. I have yet to meet a Canadian who was impressed by the schools I attended, nor have I encountered any innate sense of superiority among graduates of these schools. Yet when I attend conferences, I frequently find myself having this conversation:American: Oh, you’re at UBC?Me: Yes.American: Oh, that’s a really good school. (impressed)Me: Is it? (seemingly amused, but actually quite curious)American: (confused) Well, yes.Me: Why would you say that?American: (stumped) I…hmm. (because I’ve heard of it)The relatively level playing field among Canadian universities is probably one reason why Canada has the largest proportion of university graduates among G7 countries and the highest percentage of university graduates in the workforce. Immigrants in Canada have particularly high levels of university attendance: 37% compared to 22% of the Canadian-born population. Among recent immigrants (those who entered the country less than two years ago) 48% of females and 56% of males had a university degree according to the 2006 Census. Women have outpaced men in university attendance since the late 1970s, and more lower-income people are attending university in Canada than ever before. These types of changes have led to much more diversity in Canadian universities. And there is considerable evidence that nurture, as opposed to nature, is the key to success in education: Malcolm Gladwell vividly illustrates this in Outliers.With only a handful (15) universities in Maclean’s medical doctoral category, Canadians often seek jobs in other countries; this is particularly true in academia. But we know that we will be judged by the school we went to, because that seems to be a common trend in the American university hiring process. A glance at the faculty directories of an Ivy League school reveals that virtually all of their faculty did their doctorate or post-doctorate work at an Ivy League school. Lou Marinoff, in a recent article in Inside Higher Ed outlined how his philosophy department, in City College at the City University of New York, narrowed down their search for a new faculty member from 627 applicants to 27 long-listed and 6 short-listed ones. A major criteria in the first step was holding a degree from “a good university.” As Marinoff writes, “Members of our department earned their Ph.D.s at Columbia, Harvard, Oxford, and University of London. Additionally, City College is known as the “Harvard of the Proletariat,” with distinguished alumni that include nine Nobel Laureates, more than any other public institution in America. Our faculty members are expected to live up to this legacy.” Of course publications, research, teaching, administrative service were up there too.I would love to say that this kind of academic snobbery does not exist in Canada, but it is pretty standard here to imitate Americans. Most of my friends in design professions hold Ivy League degrees in higher regard, and since my era at U of T’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the school has been completely rebranded with graduates of Yale, Princeton and Harvard. Many Canadian faculty members are American, or educated in the US, and bring these ideas with them. I can definitely say that the “reputation” of the school seems to play a role in the admissions process at SCARP. The ridiculous thing about this is that our school (which is a graduate program only) accepts applications from undergraduates in any discipline. And according to Maclean’s, as well as my own experience, programs vary considerably from school to school. So using school “reputations” makes no sense: you would have to be a master of every undergraduate program in the country to know what a “good school” was for that particular program. It’s one thing for a medical school to compare B.Sc students from everywhere, or engineering programs to compare their B.Eng applicants; it’s quite another for a multidisciplinary program which draws its students from programs as diverse as Forestry, French, Geography, Architecture, and Canadian Studies. It’s part of the reason why our school uses such a complex application process, evaluating transcripts, a research statement, reference letters, and work experience equally.Interestingly, Marinoff’s philosophy department invited 6 candidates to their school for interviews. Here is his summary of their performance: “All the finalists were impeccably well versed in their subjects matter, but not all succeeded in establishing rapport with the students. One lectured remotely, as if from afar; another failed to engage them in dialogue; a third took insufficient account of whether the class was grasping the material. Some lectured clearly and evocatively, encouraged and fielded questions on the fly, bridged gaps in students’ understanding by providing additional context where necessary, and covered the material in the allotted time. The best finalists attracted a throng of students after the lecture, having whetted appetites for further learning. The top two bundled humor with their lectures or slides, which palpably enhanced the ambiance and helped establish rapport. “Edutainment” is an American neologism, after all.”When it comes right down to it, these candidates (CCNY hired the top two) succeeded not because of their Ivy League pedigrees, but because of their ability to engage students and cope with the classroom setting most effectively. Now, whether they gained these credentials as a result of their “superior” educations is a matter for debate: they were likely supported and mentored more than students at other schools, because their high tuition costs resulted in more resources (again, Outliers is relevant). I suspect these outstanding candidates worked hard at developing their skills and lecturing style, and had a real passion for teaching. Preferential selection of candidates based on their school’s reputations was really just a useful filter in this case, a way of decreasing the number of applicants to consider carefully, albeit one that probably eliminated many worthy candidates from lower income and minority backgrounds who couldn’t afford Ivy League educations.All this to say that I don’t believe there is a Canadian Ivy League, nor do I think we need one. It’s too bad that universities, professors, and students can’t get over these ideas of being “the best”, or producing the “best and the brightest” students. This relentless competition is even seen in what Richard Moll, in his 1985 book, called the “public Ivys”, eight American schools that were “successfully competing with the Ivy League schools in academic rigor… attracting superstar faculty and in competing for the best and brightest students of all races.” It’s even worse that the myth of the Canadian Ivy League is being relentlessly perpetuated by recruiters who travel all over the world with glossy brochures featuring the old ivy-clad buildings (international student tuitions are higher than those for Canadian citizens, so the schools encourage it). But the Canadian reality is a bit different, and there really is no reason a University of Alberta grad and a McGill grad should not be considered equally.

Q. Could one go to med school after his PhD?A. Above all other applicants, those with PhD degrees are most prized. They have labored for the love of science, not for privileged status or financial gain. Older than traditional applicants, they tend to be more mature and wise. So yes, one can go to med school after his PhD and the acceptance rate is higher.Yes, I'm That Kind of DoctorA PhD who's no longer a doctor in medical schoolYes, I'm That Kind of DoctorBy Jim KlingJul. 30, 2013 , 10:00 AMXuguang ChenXuguang Chen wanted to improve the human condition. When he graduated from Beijing's Peking University in 2004, he chose to go to graduate school to study biology, believing that studying fundamental biological mechanisms would allow him to have the greatest possible impact on human health.But soon he learned that basic science wasn't enough by itself. "To answer more fundamental questions in diseases, I had to have more background in medical science and had to have more insight into how the human body works," says Chen, who currently is a research fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute—and has been admitted to the medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio."You have to learn the broad, general understanding (of medicine) so that when you step on the floor as an intern in a hospital, you don't kill anybody." —Suzanne MillerAttending medical school after a Ph.D. is not a common path, but it's not unheard of, either: According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, each year between 0.6% and 0.8% of medical school matriculants have Ph.D. degrees when they enter medical school. The statistics aren't definitive, but there seems to be an upward trend.After college, Chen became interested in biomedicine and was accepted into a graduate biochemistry program at Case Western Reserve. Chen's thesis project focused on treatments for cystic fibrosis (CF). His graduate advisor, Pamela Davis, was a physician as well as a geneticist, and Chen was exposed to medicine when Davis opened group meetings with stories from her recent rounds."Oftentimes she would come to the lab meeting and share stories about her patients and how they were improving and how she was trying to manage their cystic fibrosis disease," Chen says. "I got more and more interested in the fact that she was in a position that she could directly improve people's lives."Then one day, at a conference, Chen had an experience that changed his career direction. "I saw a teenage girl with CF, looking completely normal, give a guitar performance, and towards the end she said she had completed a half marathon and was training for a full marathon. This completely blew my mind, because from all the papers I read, CF patients were slim, malnourished, and had lung function half of normal people. That was about the time when I decided that I should become someone who can make that kind of miracle happen," he recalls.Big switchThe transition from lab to clinic can be challenging. First you have to get into medical school. "Medical school is probably one of the most competitive admission processes in existence," says Suzanne Miller, who is founder and CEO of MDadmit, a medical school application consultancy. Miller attended Harvard Medical School and served on the admissions board there. Every year, about 40,000 people apply for medical school, Miller says, and about 17,000 get in. "It's not a profession you enter lightly. It needs to be your vocation, something you have a calling for," she adds.A Ph.D. in a scientific field is definitely an advantage. "It's not a traditional path, but getting into medical school in some ways is about showing you're unique and different. A Ph.D. is an incredibly impressive achievement," she says.In fact, says Daniel Albert, F.A. Davis Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in Madison, medical schools are increasingly interested in applicants who don't come straight from their senior year in college. (Albert is also a frequent contributor to Science Careers.) "There's an increasingly favorable bias toward 'nontraditional' medical school applicants: students who are more mature and have experience and achievement beyond their premed studies are generally a better bet to be successful in medical school and beyond," Albert says. "In my experience, successful grad school experience is a definite advantage for a medical school applicant."Patient poweredA Ph.D. may be an advantage, but after you've spent half a decade or more in a lab, the admissions committee will want to know why you're switching to a clinical career. "You have to explore the clinical side, and understand what you're getting into, and prove that to the admissions committee," Miller says.An excellent way of doing that is to shadow a physician or volunteer at a hospital or in some other health context, Miller says. Shadowing also helps the potential applicant be sure. Chen agrees that it's a good idea. "I hope everyone who thinks about this would do some shadowing or volunteering," he says. "It will really open their eyes to what doctors really do in everyday life, and to see whether they could see themselves doing the same thing in 5 to 10 years. And if they decide that this is the path they want to take, they should do it."In fact, the desire to work with patients is precisely what inspires many Ph.D. scientists to go on to medical school. "They want the people aspect of it. It's very hard for a Ph.D. to have the clinical component and contact with patients that makes medicine so fulfilling."But it's not the only reason to consider medical school. Let's face it: The job market for doctoral graduates can be dicey at times, depending on the economy and grant availability. On the other hand, "Clinical work can almost always be come by, both in the United States and abroad. [Also], the cachet of [an] M.D. often translates into higher pay when a doctor moves to other fields, such as business, consulting, technology, or policy," Miller says.The transitionAs a Ph.D. student at Weill Cornell Medical College, studying immunology, Julia Foldi found research invigorating—at first. But then she had some bad experiences with graduate advisors and became disillusioned with pure science. "I found the questions I was asking and trying to answer very narrow-minded and sometimes insignificant—as in, having a project just for the sake of having a project and being able to graduate instead of thinking that my project was exciting and had some potential to contribute to some greater understanding," she recalls.Julia FoldiDuring her 5th year in the program, she started studying for the MCATs, and later she applied to medical school. In the fall she will begin her second year at the New York University School of Medicine in New York City.Foldi noticed important differences between Ph.D. and M.D. cultures, even before she was admitted to medical school. The med-school approach, she says, is more regimented. "It's almost like a game and you have to play the game by the rules. As scientists, we tend to feel like we have a lot of freedom in what we do, because that's how lab work is. But when it comes to medical school applications, it's a strict procedure, and you have to play by the rules," Foldi says. "I had one friend who didn't take some of the required classes as an undergrad, but he said, 'I have a Ph.D. and they'll overlook things I didn't do.' That's not the case. Having a Ph.D. is a huge advantage, but you have to play by the rules. I ended up taking a summer class before I started applying to medical schools because I was missing [a requirement]. That's annoying, but it has to be done."Once you're in, the differences are even bigger. "Medical school is incredibly broad," Miller says. "You have to learn the broad, general understanding (of medicine) so that when you step on the floor as an intern in a hospital, you don't kill anybody. A Ph.D. is the ultimate expertise. You have the luxury of 3 to 5 years to become an expert on one subject."Complementary scienceBefore he started a Ph.D., Rameshwar Rao applied to medical school. He didn't get in, so he went to graduate school instead, studying biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. It was there that Rao joined with several other doctoral students to form a company, STIgma Free, which aimed to develop and market a self-administered home test for sexually transmitted diseases. They built a prototype, then abandoned the project when they realized that the company would require intense commitment—and that something was missing from the team.Rameshwar Rao"A company like STIgma needs a pathologist or some kind of M.D. to champion it," Rao says. "As a researcher, I talked to clinicians about [the technology], and there always needed to be one cowboy, one champion to take that work and try it in a few patients. I'm always going to be dependent on a clinician to get this into a patient, so I personally just decided it would be more effective for me to become that clinician and try to do it myself," he says.So he applied again to medical school, and this time he got in. He benefitted, he says, not only from his experience but also from his connections at the University of Michigan. His added maturity also made him more confident as he worked his way through the admissions process. "I hammered people with questions, and I didn't really do that the first time. I met with the director of admissions here at Michigan, probably a year before I applied. I talked to tons of medical students. [At] every school I was legitimately interested in, I sent messages to physicians and faculty members. The majority of them ignored me, but there were some that did reach out. I think it was just about being very proactive and making it seem like I was very interested, whereas the first time around I was too lax about it."Rao has an interest in entrepreneurship that grew out of his Ph.D. research, but Foldi doesn't expect her doctorate in immunology to directly affect her medical career. Her shadowing experience led to an interest in oncology and hematology. "My project was very narrow, focusing on one cell type and one pathway, one molecule. I'll probably never see that again in my life. But in terms of the kind of thinking, and the ability to reason, knowing where to look for things in the literature, it's very useful no matter where someone ends up. Especially in a field like oncology, it's so important to be able to keep up with the current research, not just clinical but also the basic research," she says.Jim KlingJim Kling is a freelance science and medical writer based in Bellingham, Washington.A PhD who's no longer a doctor in medical schoolSUFU, PHD | EDUCATION | SEPTEMBER 18, 2011I’m a doctor. My mail comes with the Dr. prefix and my checks have Dr. on them. People introduce me as Dr. and when I go to conferences I am Dr. SuFu. However as of a couple months ago I’m no longer a doctor. With the donning of the white coat I paradoxically lost a degree and became a first name or Mr. SuFu. My name badge makes no reference to the last 5 years of my life, nor do any of the mailings, collages or class handouts. In the clinic as a medical student my Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Science is as noteworthy as the roll of toilet paper in the bathroom. I sacrificed a great deal of time and effort to receive my degree and I am very proud of it. Whereas other professions are proud of their students to have a prior graduate degree (e.g. MBA’s in law school) my degree has been swept under the cadaver table. While I understand the implications of not wanting to confuse patients with a Ph.D. degree the sheer lack of acknowledgement by my former colleagues is saddening.I always planned on introducing myself as Mr. SuFu when in the clinic. I completely understand that an introduction of Dr. SuFu in the clinic could confuse the patients and I would never endanger the life of a patient or disrupt the hierarchy of medicine by claiming to be something I am not.When I asked the dean, to please attach my degree to my name badge, I was told that it would set me apart from my fellow classmates and make me stand out to the attendings. My response was that all of them know about my degree, it’s tough for something like that to not be spread around rather quickly. I asked a few of my classmates for their opinion and they don’t care, I’m one of them. They come to me with questions about the classes I taught and some come talk with me because they have a genuine interest in getting into research but don’t know how to proceed. Either way my degree has been beneficial to my classmates.I don’t feel that in today’s medical world a medical student with a Ph.D. in biomedical science would present a target for attending physicians. There are numerous combined MD/PhD programs throughout the nation where the student completes their PhD requirement before the final two clinical years. Do I think my degree will give me an advantage when I enter the clinic? Absolutely and unequivocally not. Right now as a first year medical student, I can’t tell the difference between heart murmurs or even hear one unless it’s shaking the bed. However, I do think my research based doctoral degree gives me a different perspective on medicine. My doctoral research was focused on the areas of oncology that are in clinical trials. I know more about the current state of oncologic clinical than the majority of people. I have personal knowledge of the rigors, time, effort and heartbreak that go into participating on a clinical trial for a chronic and potentially life threatening disease (I am currently a participant in the DEFEND-2 trial). My knowledge of these things could be of interest to the attending, but unless they have followed my career or have looked me up on PubMed they may assume that I am “just another medical student.”So what am I? Am I a medical student? Am I researcher? I am both and I’m very proud of that. My training in clinical translational research, IRB approval, grant writing and manuscript preparation do set me apart from my classmates, but they have also benefitted from my experiences. I just wish that the powers that be, who are also Ph.D.’s would acknowledge it. I’m the wrong type of doctor for the next four years. Until then my suffix will have to suffice with the standard abbreviation for a medical student, MS, instead of the proper title SuFu, Ph.D., MS-1.“SuFu” is a first year medical student with a PhD in biomedical science who blogs at Diabetically Mind Numbing.

An informal or formal answer pertaining for 2014–18 batch—it depends.A long review—kind of Quora stuff—but bear with me—and if any typos.•For academics, a good institute for gaining knowledge in electronics, humanities, and physics domain—although, it all depends on how an individual puts his/her efforts; don't rely on the 90% self-righteous and pretentious faculties, you have to pave your own way, don't think that your ingratiating technique will help you here!—although seeing the environment, it can help you in your attendance and other things.•Hostels are good and regularly swept clean.•Infrastructure is good, with centralized AC in each classroom—including hostels.• Annapurna (with centralized AC), aka dining, is OK. Basically food provided here is authentic (as they claim), but don't expect to have an updated menu in terms of food—you will be soon bored by the same food, or will soon begin hating the food you loved earlier in your days (now I hate rajma)—Shipra market, and parantha waala to the rescue for midnight!.• Don't expect a flush green ground here (the video showed on their official site is old), although they have installed a squash court in ABB-3, you can also enjoy TT, but football, hahaha, at your own risk, if you don’t wish to crack your bones on that cemented floor (Normal reaction, Newton laws, right?), in this aspect JIIT-128 is luky!—although Fun—huh!, Fun!—Sports Meet is organized (students effort), but you will learn more when you will join this institute.• JYC (again, you will learn more), hahahahaha— a clever way to make quick m**ey—and you will see I-phones in every pocket of their members—and faculties (one of them from ECE branch itself, with a fake accent :) ).• Apart from academics, JMUN, literary hub, hubs related to programming (Jaypee, as I have seen have a good command at I.T., and as always it is the students who make up that reputation), electronics hubs, etc etc.• Various IEEE conferences are organized for students to gain insight into the practical domain for the subjects they are studying.• Please, this is not school, so learn to create opportunities for yourself. There are certain skills that will help you later in your life.• Some of the professors here hold Ph.D., I don't know how they could earn or achieve such a high education status.•Some of you might laugh at this review, or some of you will give it a scornful look, or some of you will think, is this person gushing out his anger or frustration—the answer is, it is upon you how you comprehend it. Just giving you a crystal clear response.• They have a library, which they like to call L.R.C.—Learning Resource Center— which is opened from 9:00 A.M. - 9:00 p.m. It houses books of various domains, but look out for A.Beiser— at my time, some books (like this one) had the only min. copies, so students used to hide them in different domain area— another skill to master.• Get ready to meet some exceptionally—*faculties or your mates—amazing and how-do-they-exist type of people—people so good that they really understand you and help you in various aspects, and others, like I have already mentioned will befuddle you to think how they even got their Ph.D.(s) or masters, and others (how-do-they-exist types)—like your supposed mates—who will compete and feel like the only god-of-electronics (or any other domain), that they will even compete in providing you the notes—a typical competitive nature of the freshers (after all they have given JEE, the summit of competitiveness), fearing that the other guy will exceed him or her by studying his/her notes or ideas: you can't help it, so you are warned!—quite bitchy stuff!.=> Again— gosh!, this doesn’t stop, right?— there are some esteem people in ECE dept. (I don’t know about CS ones), who judge your character, your education, your background— on the basis of how you write your major or minor report, that is, they judge you on English— the heights of shamefulness never have a negative slope here— and I will, candidly and blatantly will type his name— with * in b/w— and he is even a Dr.!!!!!!, so brace yourself for the guy’s name (drumming……..) Dr. V*v*k D*v*d*i, yes!, that guy judged my very good friend (who is from Bihar, for background)— who worked industriously and honestly in his project—on the basis of his simple English in his major / minor report— and even after correcting the report from someone who has a good knowledge in—and I mean way better—English, that guy still had the audacity to again judge him on the English content of his report— again, a bitchy stuff, so you are warned!That Dr. guy judged him like that:Dr.: where are you from?friend: Sir, from Bihar.Dr.: Oh!, now I see, you are from Bihar, now I understand, hmm…I have a question for that guy, does it suits good to judge someone’s work from his ethnicity, his background, his type of tone, his character, his schooling: think about this, even after education, this is the behavior you got to see from that man, I think the meaning of education, i.e. wisdom and enlightenment got above his thick little head.=> Talking about minor and major projects, some of them expect you to build a robotic arm— Jarvis— in no time. Others will tell you to skip the project as it has already been designed by your seniors— really?— so they want you to create an Iron Man suit, and patent it. Let me ask you, students are here to learn, not to help show off a faculty that SEE, this student under my guidance has created a prototype Iron Man Suit, and in no time we will be touching clouds! (and believe me, this happens.)— A+ guaranteed. How will a student learn, if he is not allowed to do projects will full sincerity because a similar project was designed in the past.Some faculties here just to build their own resume’s, force students to publish research papers— OK, at first sight, this is good, but why take money from students?— and moreover, they try to show their importance and blackmail students into publishing papers in a coercive fashion— since they knew his grades are in my hands so, you have been warned!I’m not saying all of them are bad—actually 60% of them are BAD— but again try to follow your interest, that way, the mentor will not instigate cryptic problems for you— if you wish to work in VLSI, chose a mentor whose specialization is in VLSI, if you chose to work on MATLAB and image processing, the same concept— but a caveat, you are not allowed to work on inter-branch projects, an ECE dept— or CS, maybe— doesn’t expect you to show him/her a web-based project, why?—simple cos, they can’t evaluate it— they will not even appreciate your hard work for that— so not a flexible project, aye?. What I believe is technology is totally interlinked, so it should not be separated on the basis of branches (although they can, on the evaluation day can bring up a CS faculty to evaluate your project, but again things don’t work your way.)— but again do you expect an ECE engineer here in JIIT to evaluate your WEB based project— logically no, however, you can work on projects with another dept. like PMSE and humanities— way better, trust me!.=> People who join hubs, and think that by becoming a coordinator, I can safely attach that title to my resume— what a fool!— think before you act, if you were the coordinator and you did nothing but to deceive others— whether in money for kits, politics, etcetc,— and you don’t even know a basic fact that why D.C. is more dangerous than A.C. or what the hell is saturation and drift velocity, or what the hell is op-amp, breadboard, BJT, diode, oscillators, baud rate, Nyquist rate, IC’s and what not, you just garnered your degree in making fool of yourself and others!Hubs are quite a good thing, and they look scintillating on first sight— but remember, it is YOU and only YOU, who can help survive that hub among others— you need to work diligently, clear the concepts of juniors and yours, and most importantly, work HONESTLY (not possible, due to implanted politics!)—embezzling money from others on the name of kits or whatnot proves that you are a successful businessmen, not an Engineer.* For teaching, a typical power-point-skipping feature in this institute. What I mean by that, its like every institute you take—whether its international, like MIT, or domestic, like IIT— there are some set of rules and conventions for using PPT’s, but here the whole teaching pedagogy is based on PPT’s, like they don’t even know how to use the so-called white-board-marker pedagogy. This statement is quite controversial, some may think it’s a good idea—seriously?—and some may think wait a second, seriously?. From my personal experience there was a faculty— and due to obvious reasons I will not take his name, but his appearance can be spitted out, right?. He is from ECE dept.—and even holds a PhD—and just looks like an electrician from look-wise, and that’s it— he just cancelled our class because there was a minor fault in our projector system, so yaay! for that class, but this is the reason 95% of the class didn’t knew how to shift a signal (and remember those 5% paved their own way, that’s why they were more successful in other aspects.), what was the purpose of that freakin FFT, and what not— most importantly if you asked the guy teaching from PPT an out-of-the-box question, he just stood transfixed, like waaaaaaaait, you are asking me why we use Laplace Transform, what is its practical application. Well grasshopper, you just pass your T1, T2, and T3, that’s it— yeah I know, I embellished it a bit, but you could face the same from those who teaches that way, or he/she would evade the topic by saying I need to do a google search— single time is okay, but every-time?. Teaching critical subjects like Signal and Systems (yes, that “he” guy teaches that subject), Optical communications and others, by means of slides— and those slides are basically a cut-copy-paste of the book itself, or in worst cases, the whole slide is copied or taken from other institutes— they don’t even bother to remove the other universities logo form that— disgusting!. So brace yourself, teach yourself, don’t be dependent on these guys, as they have an instilled view towards every new or old student— like, Tum Bhi Apne seniors Jesse hi ho jaoge, in short, Nalle!. In my college days, I just out of my inquisition, watched a video pertaining to Photoelectric effect— from MIT— and it was like in those fifty-minutes, they properly used slides and boards and conducted an experiment too!— yes!, in those fifty-minutes!, but why am I comparing JIIT to MIT???.=> Talking about attendance, in my eight sem, a new guy came for Optical Comm., and he was like the most stupid person I’ve ever seen. Like he couldn’t speak English properly— so at least speak in Hindi for god sake, so that your muddled sentences make some sense. And due to stringent attendance rules, he just debarred two or three of my friends— in which some of them were placed, and he was like quite proud of his actions, boasting this debarred students stuff in front of other faculties to show how Draconian he is—and actually this is a moot issue, so in short, he should have given attendance on those days when companies were swarming in, but why— they are more interested in your T1, T2, and T3 exams and your classes in b/w placements, your placements doesn’t matter to some of the thick-heads there. So even after some faculties tried to convince him that officially you should give attendance for company drives, but as obstinate he was— he repudiated the request. So my main point here is that, in JIIT, Please, don’t take attendance a light issue, your career could be at stake, and they will and will only blame YOU for that—of course.For the medical team at JIIT, its good, but I think they have taken a franchise of selling Cetirizine or paracetamol for any illness— so if you had to have a pain in your head or coughing or sneezing— so it’s Cetirizine, ohhk. What about those who have pain around thighs, we have paracetamol!— seriously?.—just joking, but I thought why not share with you this fact also.In my experience, I’ve seen only a few guys, who completely use the board, explaining each stuff, and with proper diagrams. Some meticulous professors, use slides only to show 3-D images (quite kind of them), while others rely on PPT’s to such an extent like, what do I say—even students can teach better than those simpletons. PPT’s should be reserved for subjects like humanities and to a little extent like Physics, but in this college, I don’t think it works around your way!.So utilize full resources, create and indulge in opportunities you find great and seems to contain some potential, work hard on your projects, and be updated with your technical knowledge and outside technical fields, like what’s happening around the world, whats is ISRO and NASA planning to do next month etc etc, got it?— see, placements don’t happen by magic, people work industriously, and are quite focused on what they want to achieve, or which subject they wish to opt as a carrier. If going to college is just like a school activity, where you think you will be thinking about your career based on your friends, boyfriends, or on your girlfriends choice— then I’m sorry, you are committing a huge mistake. Your inquisition, your commitment, your dedication, your perseverance, your mistakes, your goal, your THINKING will pave your way— this is a general strategy. Nobody is saying you to work hard like a moron, nobody is saying you too just be in your books— friends, party, those bunks, those creepy lab assignments, those epithet’s—of faculties and friends, those gloomy moments, those cheerful and ephemeral days where you got 20 / 20 :), make an integral part of your life— no matter whichever college you opt for!. Set an example, by working in a smooth way. People often ask others like, how the heck did he get placed in Amazon— well, people begrudge everything, right?— obviously, he did something, which was way above than yours, he worked hard, he enjoyed life too! and now he is an example— sounds easy, but it’s the working that is difficult, that’s why only few achieve the same.=> Chose subjects that excites you and which makes you feel like, aha!, looks cool and might create my interest into its future aspects—maybe you can opt it as your career too—don’t just opt an elective just because there is a guy who marks your PROXY’s every time— won’t help you, think for a second, you are not here to waste your parents money in such an expensive institute for a guy who can mark your proxy— if that is the case then online education is good for you, sign up for Coursera then.**** NOT RELEVANT, and you can SKIP this— if you want too!=> See, I don’t know what you will think about the college from this answer, but trust me, every college is good— if and only if you and only YOU know how to utilize a particular resource or opportunity. Some people here will say, that the answer is totally a partisan view (haters gonna hate!)— but wait, we are not talking about those IDEALISTIC guys— they have already exploited and to an extent used their resources to a full extent and now they are gone— we are talking about how You can do the same, and not blame the college and faculties every-time— sometimes releasing stress is a great idea to prevent your good friend’s to be knocked down either by your slang’s or knuckles! :)So, what about me— basically, to be honest, I got to know about my interest in semiconductors in 2nd sem, and from that point I was quite interested in semiconductors and device physics, and just over the time I chose a particular mentor for this and things went swiftly— as I developed my field of interest early, and over the time taking different electives—on the basis of my interest—further enhanced my interest in optics and how these two fields— semiconductors and optics—devices are linked— see, how I INTERLINKED the subjects. There was also a project that I took (based on my interest’s), but due to some technical difficulties couldn’t complete it— so what? at least YOU try and this is what matters— I hope you are getting the sense of what my point is.My college friends learned to create opportunities for themselves— by participating, by interacting, by doing projects of their interests, etc etc— so learn to participate and see where you can create a room for improvement— blaming and criticizing every time will not work.That is why I’m satisfied from my four years because I learned to pursue what matters to me most—my interests and what makes me happy.***• Talking about the location, I think this is the most utopian college in that aspect. For future batches, Metro facility will be a boon. Outside gate no. 3 you have various domains according to your tastes, like Haldirams, KFC, south Indian restaurants, McDonald's, domino's, etc. From gate no. 1 you can visit Indirapuram, Windsor street (the needed b'day parties), and Shipra Mall to have a good ambiance after a taxing day in college. All of your needs can be taken care of—like stationary and other needs—from Shipra market.• Placements—for 2018 pass outs we had Amazon, sap labs, cognizant (both mass and particular profile), Infosys, etc etc—after all you might be thinking where is that freaking bullet point after all, well FYI, it totally depends on you guys, your skills—and by skills I mean SKILLS, not a typical student who makes up his living in the college by delving into the books and mugging up the concepts— the skills which I mention here is gained by doing and doing your projects seriously and efficiently (there will be a time when you will swear and curse the faculties really badly, but they themselves are totally irritated by themselves, so take a chill pill and ignore them. While there are some that will appreciate your work, but it's rare, not impossible!). Through projects and internships, you will gain the needed info on how academics are related and connected to outside industries and how it differs. Create circuits, don't be afraid of them, embrace the idea that you and yourself will learn from mistakes and nobody else (whether it is your fear of working with transformers or A.C. voltage), do competitive programming, just my main point for you is to gain some hand-on-experience in any subjects you wish to learn or make it as a career. Training and placement cell, as they call themselves, do bring some good companies and they work diligently — but what miracles can a T&P cell do if more than half of the college doesn't know how to code in C language, or more than 95℅ doesn't know what is the diff. B/w a BJT and a MOSFET, or what is a diode (well you can't and can blame students and faculties for this, exams are patterned, and you will have a fear to pass it or experience the same in your backlog years, so this is our education system, can't help it!, that why I warned you to learn and create opportunities for yourself, I'm stressing on this part as everyone will tell you that course is tough or what not, but basic understanding comes from your brain, how you perceive something—its relative!)—don't fret, core electronics companies have a minimum visit in this college in my time, but they can visit, so you should know your stuff with great precision.• We used to have a joke, like the only stream that is holding this college is IT and CS, so guys create ECE one of them too—did I crack a joke.• A pro-tip, never study subject for the sake of studying, see its practical application—oh those Fourier and Laplacian Transforms— why they are used, and remember, every stream is interlinked, it's up to you that you can see it with that kind of eyes.• There are another plethora of things, but it will be wise of you to explore yourself. Both positive and negative aspects are there, it's up to us how we perceive it!• In the end, infrastructure matters, but the sole reason should not be superseded by the quality of education provided—for example, I have seen parents who were seduced by the ambiance of the Auditorium! And then out of the blue predicting that education here will be of top-notch quality—woah! Do a thorough research about *@campus placement's and if possible have a discourse with your known contacts. What I believe is, if you know what you want to do, you believe in yourself, if you can go through the ups and downs, both in life and academics—then nothing can stop you from achieving your goal, you can endure anything. So go on and enlighten yourself :). So overall I would give a 4.0-star rating.*@See I totally understand that placements are the utmost requirement for every fresher. But guys, tell me, without knowing the ‘E’ of engineering, without doing the work required to achieve your goals, how can you expect to get yourself placed (and this works for any domain). Asking about college placements and it's stats is quite natural and it should be like that way, but don't forget that it's the effort from you guys—and from the T&P cell—that gets you placed in your dream job. Please understand this. Even if the ECE guys or the CSE guys are placed at 80% how does that guarantees your placement? Is it a dependent system which I'm still unaware of? Like if X (2018) gets placed so does the fresher Y(2022)??? Please, I know core companies were at a minimum at my time, but time do change. Don't fret; work, play, enjoy, relax, in a proper proportion, and it's you and only you who can bring up a change. So be that change instead of worrying and complaining about stuff that you can't control. What you can tame at your end is your diligence, your honesty, your hardwork (both academics, non-academics, good internships), your honestly done projects (both minor and major) and your life where you enjoy too! :) See I know not every project could be completed due to any technical reason. What matters is that what you have learned from it. That's gonna count for sure my friend :). I hope you got my point. Work diligently on your projects, have a fruitful discourse with your partner and your faculty—remember have patience with them ;)—and give your best—Not because you have to finish the goddamn thing, but because you want to learn at least 10–15% off it honestly! Always open your options and doors, do test yourself for off-campus recruitments too if you feel like core companies are a bit delayed or whatever the reason is. There is no harm in giving off-campus interviews, see this way, it's only helping you getting your options being more diversed instead of sitting in your pretty room and waiting for any core firm and doing nothing but assignments from your classes, I think the former is better than the latter. It's your life, make it count for sure after learning those KVL and KCL's—bad joke, I know :). So as a mature audience—which j know you are—you know what to do next :)Code—since you love it, if not atleast trick your mind for the same, and it's quite amazing if you ask me regarding coding. It's just simple math, and helps you to expand the horizons of your cognitive system (just like chess!). Practice coding, do Competitive programming, in all play with coding instead of having a fear for the same. Do this from the 1st day itself so that it doesn't feel like a pressure in the end.Aptitude—there are many online sites that provide aptitudes questions and papers like #nd#a B#x and what not. Practice the apti form there. (#—i; and quora is my enemy :) )Your technical knowledge and other things are upto you. If you were nothing but a brat all these years, then I'm sorry, can't help you. It's you and only you who can explain or answer the technical questions put-forth by interviewer's. Have a solid technical background and a good communication skills along with. Try to communicate with friends and faculties in English so that by the end of your term atleast you won't fumble in GD's and interviews.Dedication+Motivation+fun part+Honesty—upto you!And yes! This was my final update—probably :)—to this impractical, colossal, and humongous answer!Again, explore! Explore! Explore!P.S. Watch your attendance, stringent rules are awaiting you!P.S.S: A Picture speaks a thousand words. Actually we all know the way to our individual successes, but sometimes we just astray ourselves due to various reasons. Sometimes we know for sure those factors but just overlook them or ignore them for good. I hope—without losing the brevity of the aforementioned proposition—you will understand, or ponder about it later, of what I am trying to say here.Very Imp: Also, in the second snap—which is a message to all graduates—be careful though, it is a simple method that most people misses or take for granted. The message is for all, irrespective of your dash-dash-dash qualification. It is a general rule that is applicable in any work you opt for. I repeat, any domain, not just limited to science and engineering.Thank you for being a patient reader :)Source of imagery: Pinterest :)