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The BML Munjal University is fast emerging as a center for excellence in education in North India. It was established in 2014, and since then, the university has seen many students clearing its stringent standards of examination and getting hired by the top companies in the world.What differentiates this university from the rest of the newer ones? It is founded by the legendary industrial house of Munjals who own the Hero Group. Hero cycles and bikes are a household name not only in India but in most countries of Asia and Africa where their bikes are a popular choice. The Group focus on excellence and perfectionism to train students from different parts of the country to take on a more active role in the fields of science, business, economics, and law. The BML Group runs several other educational institutions, including Raman Munjal Vidya Mandir in Gurgaon and Dayanand Medical College & Hospital in Ludhiana.What makes the university the best is the various courses it offers, the campuses, and the type of companies holding career fairs and offering job placements.To see how BML Munjal University fares, let us look at the overall picture.BMU Munjal CampusThe campus is situated on the outskirts of Gurgaon, Haryana in a sprawling 500-acre campus. Equipped with the latest amenities that ensure the comfort and well being of the students, the campus is fully residential and co-educational.The courses offered by the universityBML Munjal University imparts education in the field of engineering, law, management, economics, and commerce.The institution is divided into four departments:School of Engineering and TechnologySchool of ManagementSchool of LawSchool of Economics and CommerceThese offer B. Tech, B. Com, BBA, and LLB degrees. Additionally, being a deemed university, the institution also offers an MBA degree and PhD. Very soon, there will be the second phase of expansion that will offer Science, Arts, and Architecture courses.Academic PartnershipThe Imperial College of London has an academic partnership with BML Munjal University. The noteworthy British institution provides a role in mentoring and advice for the management, engineering, and legal courses.The students from the School of Engineering and Technology have the opportunity to pursue MSc at the Imperial College if they show excellent academic performance at BML MU.Additionally, the students of commerce, management, and law departments attend workshops and lectures by the faculty of Imperial College.PedagogyThe exposure to top-notch western academia equips the students of BML MU with an ability to seek solutions that are innovative and effective. The pedagogy is far removed from the usual rote learning employed elsewhere in the country.BML MU prides itself on designing curriculum and developing teaching techniques that are both unique and state of the art. The university is in constant touch with the industry and offers an education that is relevant to employment.At all times, the faculty attempts to tutor the students the correlation between different branches of education viz management and engineering to break down the narrow tunnel vision that undergraduates often develop. The failure to look over and across boundaries is a hindrance to career development, and realising it, the teaching staff does an excellent job of imparting cross-disciplinary knowledge as far as possible.BML MU not only provides students with the scope of higher education but also makes a lot of effort to impart them with the skills required to emerge as well-informed individuals and responsible members of society.Admission ProcessThe UG admissions for the next academic session will commence in November 2019.Now, let us look at the specifics of the BML Munjal University Engineering CourseThe director of the engineering department is Dr Sudip Sanyal. An alumnus of the prestigious Benaras Hindu University, he has also taught there as well as at the famed Roorkee Engineering University (now known as IIT, Roorkee). His field of teaching encompasses Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, the domains at the cutting edge of modern technology. Dr Sanyal has over 30 years of experience as an academic and has provided to the BML MU engineering department his expertise for several years.CampusThe 50-acre campus is enormous and well designed. There is no lack of extracurricular activity, including clubs for debates, robotics, photography, and even martial arts!The campus can house 2,000 students in the most modern multistoried hostel buildings. There are over fifty academic staff who live on campus and several who commute.The campus is safe, secure, and has splendid facilities for developing a healthy mind and body.Students have access to a well-stocked library with books and journals from every discipline.B.Tech Eligibility –The total course fee for a 4-year B.Tech degree is INR 12,50,000 approximately.Students who have appeared in and cleared the JEE are eligible for admission to the university. However, students from state boards of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala can apply based on the Class 12 mark sheet.The minimum aggregate score of 70% in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and English is required.Students of IB and IGCSE are also required to appear in and clear the JEE.Following the evaluation of the application and mark sheet of 10th and 12th board exams, students are called for an interview.Students with a 3-year Diploma course from various accredited Polytechnics can apply for B. Tech through the lateral admission process.SpecialisationsBML School of Engineering and Technology provides three specialities in B. Tech:Computer Science and EngineeringElectronics and Communication EngineeringMechanical EngineeringB. Tech Computer Science and EngineeringThis stream focuses on imparting learning about computer systems, architecture, programming in several languages, applications, and cybersecurity.The icing on the cake is the stress on data science and AI. Learning about the Internet of Things, new technology using which devices talk to each other, is also imparted.DS, AI, and IoT are the next frontier in computer sciences. The ordinary programming jobs have mainly been explored and automated.There is, of course, the IBM Lab, where students learn to test their ideas and build new software.These three subdomains will be generating hundreds of thousands of jobs, and with its ever-present planning for the future, the BML MU equips its B. Tech graduates to be among the best and brightest.B.Tech Electronics and Communication EngineeringWhile jobs in computer software are seen as glamorous, the computers work using solid-state circuits broadly known as chips. It is the electronic chips in everything from LED bulbs, phones to satellites that power the modern world.BML MU faculty tutors the advance science that goes into developing VLSI chips.The pride of the engineering department is the 3D printer that is used for circuit fabrication. It is said to be extremely expensive and only one of its kind in north India.The course covers not only solid-state circuits but also communications engineering related to satellites and phones.With the rapid expansion of cell phone networks and the soon to be the launch of 5G, any communications engineer trained at BML Munjal University would not have to search too hard for a job.B.Tech Mechanical EngineeringThe foundation of the Munjal group is mechanical engineering. Dr B M Munjal began life as an engineering apprentice in the Indian Army Ordnance Factory.That same tradition is present in BML MU.The mechanical engineering course focuses on designing, machining, and fabricating large mechanical systems. It, of course, includes quite a significant degree of automotive engineering since that is the field in which India is excellent.The department has a fully functional BMW engine to demonstrate to students how the world's most modern and advanced internal combustion mechanism works in practice.But aside from traditional mechanical engineering, the course also focuses on robotics and automation.Mechanical engineers are known for their exceptional all-around talent at problem-solving and can be employed in sectors as diverse as oil refining to indoor climate control.PlacementsBML MU has succeeded in providing employment to its engineers from top-notch Indian firms.The second 4-year B. Tech batch has graduated recently.Over 100 corporates visited the campus, and the largest package offered was INR 8 LPA. The average student received an offer of INR 4.7 lakhs.For a brand new university, this is indeed a stellar achievement.The recruiters included Byju's, Amazon, KPMG, and of course, the Hero Moto Corp.Why BMl Munjal is one of the best universities in IndiaIt is never easy to open an institute and make it a success. But, when you have an administration that comes with the need to showcase excellence and staff with a passion to train young minds to recognise that there is no limit to the human achievements, a success mantra is developed. The high calibre of teachers, course structure, and campus infrastructure ensures that every student is well-prepared to take on the challenges the world will throw them. The dynamic leadership shown by the senior academics would surely catapult this institute into one of India's topmost in the coming years.

Hi Everyone,Good advice on this Quora thread already, but I keep getting asked so thought I’d document my perspective.First, it’s good to start with the assumption that there are no jobs in VC and purposefully joining a VC is improbable for any specific job search. Very few VCs post open positions and run a hiring process. Almost all hire through their networks and relationships on an opportunistic basis. Almost all hire people they know, trust, and have worked around for many years, or candidates who come highly recommended from such people. There are less than a thousand firms, and nearly all of them are very small teams. The ones that seem big because they manage a lot of money are very guarded, and they really don’t have that many team members either. A VC firm is structured as a partnership, and senior professionals are called partners because it’s less of a job one gets and more of a joining up for mutual benefit. So, the only way to be qualified is to prove you bring and create outstanding value.Second, the old model of VC portrayed itself as an “apprenticeship business,” but the new model is “anything goes.” The norm used to be to get hired at entry level, learn the dark arts and the ropes and then get welcomed into an exclusive guild. This isn’t true anymore, if it ever was. Entry level positions such as analyst or associate are generally temporary roles, and those in them are encouraged to go into operating positions after just a few years. Good news though: people are now joining or starting venture firms through all kinds of unexpected ways. It’s largely dependent on timing, relationships, and serendipity. (Oh, and privelage!)Third, VC is a good chunk state-of-mind rather than a job. (Eye roll, I know.) If you don’t have it before you’re in VC, then you won’t make into or survive as a VC. As a community, we have similar malfunctions that cluster in a few key areas. We seem equally divided into extreme promoters and extreme skeptics. We think of ourselves as a conduit for the ambitions of others and have a habit of helping opportunity seekers. We obsess about company building, innovation trends, new tech devices and platforms, interpersonal rapport, enabling networks, unmet market demand, big opportunities and novel solutions. I think most VCs would be doing what they’re doing even if they weren’t paid to do it, which is… why they get paid so much.?!Disclaimer: there are high points to VC but it is tough behind closed doors. It’s not all pontificating on panels and rolling around in money. There’s constant overwhelm, daily fire drills, incessant firm pitches (repeating oneself over and over), and incessant company pitches. A lot of questionable time is spent doing analytical work to justify or combat the gut decisions of other people. Ironically, it’s both lonely and exhaustingly social, both inspirational and exhaustingly heartbreaking. We have to be constantly high-functioning to deal with constant dysfunction. Our calendars are not our own, everyone is trying to get on them, and our time and energy gets yanked this way and that. We get into VC to back ideas and support entrepreneurs, but then we spend the vast majority of our time learning about then saying no to great ideas and struggle to find real time for the entrepreneurs we have the privelage to back. The amount of ego in most rooms is almost comical. Not to mention, the most value we create is often from a single investment every few years, so there’s a nagging feeling that we’re wasting our time just about all the time, and that there’s somewhere else we need to be to find the Next Big Thing. Work-life balance is non-existant, and our non-professional relationships suffer. (Try telling your loved one you can’t make it to date night because you need to go to an industry event where there’s a .001% chance you meet and invest in the next Facebook. Now do it 100 more times and see if you still have a relationship.)If you’re still interested at this point, you just might have the malfunctions to break into VC. If you think of it as a meandering journey rather than a job search then eventually it will most likely happen, and then you too can get so many emails asking to meet for coffee that your brain explodes.So, here are some patterns I’ve seen. Most people that have ended up in VC did so unexpectedly and through a combination of the following:The paths you might have control over:Become a sought-after person in a domain of relevance to an up and coming industry. This can involve providing thought leadership that becomes visible, or doing deep research on something erudite and technical, or helping so many entrepreneurs in remarkable ways that a large network of people start introducing you to entrepreneurs starting companies in the domain of your expertise. VCs then hire you for your dealflow and access.Bring investable capital to the table for an up and coming VC that you’ve built trust with. This sounds unlikely but that’s what makes it possible. You may have access to a family office, an institutional investor, a foreign pool of capital that wants to get into VC. In the meanwhile, be helpful to an emerging VC by doing a few projects, refer them entrepreneurs, write market briefs, or help with diligence or events. If you have their trust and can show up with $20M or more, odds are that an emerging manager would be happy to have you join and hope you learn the ropes.Build your own angel investment track record with whatever you can scrap together, keep track of it, and make a strong impression on the entrepreneurs and co-investors. If you get into a high-growth company early, you’re golden and you can even start your own firm. If you have returns with an IRR of above 15% or a net multiple above 3X, you can show that to a firm and join in an investing role, or you can even raise a little fund of your own from LPs willing to take bets on new managers and small funds.Get into top-tier networks among the next generation of entrepreneurs. The usual Stanford, Harvard, Carnegie-Mellon (totally unhelpful) advice falls within this bucket. You don’t have to go to these schools, you just need to be in networks of entrepreneurs. You can go to events. You can join membership networks like Young Entrepreneurship Council or Sandbox. It doesn’t really matter where you find them. But join groups and go to events until you find an environment that seems to be full of brilliant, visionary people that want to build great companies. Bonus points if you build your own top-tier network, formally or informally.Come up with a unique, contrarian, timely, and memorable thesis, do your homework and become an expert, write reports and blog, and keep at it until people start to think you might be onto something. When VCs start to contact you about it, tell them you might be open to working with them.Participate in VC-like activities. Advise companies for equity and actually do actual work for them without getting paid. Work with an angel group sourcing deals, work with an accelerator or incubator, help run a student VC fund, or help host industry events, hackathons and startup weekends. Hell, you could even work for a Private Equity firm.Create VC-like work products and have a portfolio of work to share. Take notes on every company you meet, summarize them and make sense of them. Keep traction data in a coherent format. Write up a brief or report on a space, even better if you do original research, and choose the most promising companies and write an investment memo on them. Document your thinking in compelling ways. Write blog entries on best practices in company building. Go to conferences and blog about the take-aways. Do special projects and make introductions for entrepreneurs and keep records on it.Work in “alternatives” at asset managers and go above and beyond for the VCs in your portfolio. There are many more jobs at the groups that fund VCs rather than in VCs. Endowments, family offices, large financial institutions, insurance groups, and professional asset management firms all usually have teams that allocate to Venture. Go work at them. Screen and evaluate professional Venture firms. Be awesome to get to know. Be helpful. Go to the Annual General Meeting of each VC you’re allocated to. Make an impression.The paths you likely don’t have control over:Start a company that gets attention. Go through the founder ups and downs. Develop intuition on company creation and company building. Gain remarkable trust with your own investors by handling the ups and downs with poise. When the company crashes or sells, work with your own investors.Start a company that makes money. Bring in your own money as a GP commitment, and join or co-found a firm with partners that you’ve built trust with. Bonus points if you make investors lots of money.Have key, early operational roles at the up and coming generation of high-growth companies. Worked at AirBnB and Uber and Dropbox? Come on in! You must know how to pick them!Work in consulting or investment banking and gain muscle memory for rapid materials generation. Work in emerging industries or on transactions that are in emerging industries. VCs generally have to write investment memorandums, make internal decks, rebuild financial models, perform and document due diligence, or perform similar workflows and create similar deliverables. If you’re good and fast, and have original thoughts in the process, VCs will want you on their team because they can’t make the time to do this without top-notch help.Work in transactions and get close to the details. Be a corporate or transactions lawyer, work for a broker-dealer or investment banker. Sell or buy side, get deals done. Price. Negotiate. Go through redlines in mind-numbingly long and boring legal paperwork and have passionate debates about accounting techniques. Know how to get messy, complicated deals to the finish line. Bonus points if you help take a company public.Be a tech journalist, even a pretend one. Cover a few up and coming spaces and interview every entrepreneur with a pulse. Find the essence, make sense of things, identify and label trends, and create a detailed mental map of swaths of an innovation ecosystem. Bonus points if you write a book, or co-author a book with a famous VC.Develop a credible, relevant biography and make a firm look good by hiring you. This is vague, but VCs need to make and leave an impression on LPs and entrepreneurs quickly. So, personal story matters. “We invest in energy storage, and Rebecca here invented a new type of low cost battery as an undergraduate.”Convince some unsuspecting pool of money to act like a VC. Propose a family office, endowment or corporate balance sheet to get going with letting you write checks because all this cool stuff is happening and right now they’re just missing out. Sell FOMO.Serve time at the acquirers. In every sector there are a handful of incumbent companies that actively acquire venture backed companies. They have teams that scan the market and run the acquisition process, generally called Corporate Development. If you have a strong network at several and know how they think and operate, that’s highly relevant to VCs.There’s pretty much no way out of learning deeply about company founding, creation, building and scaling. It helps to know all about how capital moves around the world. So, if you’re not reading a bunch of business books already for fun, then VC is probably not for you.I have suspected that there might be a hack to all this. Figure out what VC you want to join and then just go act like an associate without getting paid. Go scout companies, meet with them, write up company summaries and pick a company and write an investment memo. Then, just share your work with your favorite partner and flatter the hell out of them.Hope that’s helpful!For context, I joined Learn Capital as a Partner after starting a visible company, helping a few other companies at the founding stages, referring many entrepreneurs to the Learn Capital, going to too many industry events and having too many coffees, and making a few angel investments. I was a Kauffman Fellow, Class 20, and created the Fellowship program at Learn Capital.

I've taken a few classes on Coursera and there are two that I'd recommend.The Foundations of Business Strategy class (Coursera) is a very good survey of evaluating and formulating strategies for business using common tools like environmental surveys, SWOT analysis, and Porter's Five Forces. Each week's lecture is built around a business case study to provide some real world examples. This also makes this particular class very conducive to group work if you are inclined to form a study group with other folks nearby who are also enrolled. This class ends with a capstone project where you get to apply the tools you've learned to an analysis of a real world business. Interesting side note: this class is part of the partnership between Coursera and Coursolve (Page on coursolve.org) which pairs students with businesses and non-profits grappling with real-world problems right now, so one option for your project is to work with one of the participating organizations to address their issues and see immediate impact. Very cool stuff. This class is taught by Michael Lennox from the University of Virginia's Darden School of BusinessI also recommend the Economics of Money and Banking class (Coursera)from Professor Perry Mehrling of Columbia University in the City of New York. This class is broken into two parts that are both around 7 weeks long. This class examines the nature and hierarchy of money; banking topics including clearing houses, interbank lending, and central banking; as well as basic financial ideas like the difference between solvency and liquidity. The instructor demonstrates his ideas throughout the course by showing the impact of various activities to an organization's balance sheet - linking what could otherwise be fairly arcane transactions to elementary accounting. I consider this course to be an ideal primer on basic financial concepts for people who want to understand what they read in the business section of any major newspaper without delving into the more complex aspects of quantitative finance.