Manipal: Inspired by Life
Likes
- The best part about Manipal is its interdisciplinary and free-spirited campus life, period. There is no concept of a gate pass with the hostel in-times at 11 pm for both boys and girls, with absolutely no discrimination or separation enforced across people of the opposite sex. The town is filled to the brim with students, with no dearth of places to party, eat out, make some music perhaps or just sit at a scenic viewpoint looking at the Western Ghats and people rafting beneath. It is gorgeous.
- The next best thing is the absolute level of intensity with which the student projects and racing teams here operate - you are literally building your car from scratch. You will probably acquire most job-ready skills within the first two years. The infrastructure is top-notch, as expected from an internationally accredited college. Faculty are reasonably passionate about the courses they take, with a lot of mentorship available for undergraduate research.
Dislikes
- The only point of contention here would perhaps be the cost of living. No, the mess fee is 56k for the entire year, payable in advance but in Manipal, eating out twice or thrice a week is a norm with gaming cafes and flat auto rates - expenses can soar up real quick. However, it is important to note that Manipal offers flat 50% on tuition fees under the AICTE scholarship for students with total family income under 8LPA and for meritorous (I think up to top 100) students in the entrance test. The State Bank of India offers collateral-free loans with the lowest interest rate under the Scholar education loan, with MIT Manipal placed in the exact same category as the top IITs and BITs. Other colleges like VIT and even lower NITs are placed much lower in the categorization.
- Essentially, if you don't want the complete college experience - the complete package that forces you out of your comfort zone, gets you to understand yourself and helps you become a well-formed adult who knows how to carry yourself, don't come to Manipal.
Remarks :
I chose Manipal for its quality of student life. Life, both on and off campus, is amazing with all the experiences and opportunities one can hope for in undergrad years. Only meritorious performance in the written entrance test was considered for admission, no other factors save a minimum cutoff in 12th boards. I prepared for these rounds through boards and standard engineering entrance exam prep only, no dedicated prep is required in my opinion.
Course Curriculum Overview :
The course curriculum is extremely diverse and updated almost every five years in consultation with industry partners. The courses are not only nationally acclaimed (Manipal is the only private engineering Institute of Eminence, alongside BITS Pilani), but also internationally recognized via the IET accreditation. I chose the course because of the strong fundamentals it offered in hardware engineering, which is something I want to pursue after college. The faculty are all well-qualified, pursuing legitimate research regularly and the teaching methods utilized in class are often PowerPoint presentations, accompanied by verbal lectures and blackboard chalked-out tutorials, which is effective enough for most courses. The exams are held twice a semester - one midsem for 30 marks and the final endsems for 50 marks. The remaining 20 marks for reserved for internals such as quizzes, assignments etc. Exams are reasonable and not difficult to pass.
Internships Opportunities :
Notable companies offering internships include Microsoft, Nvidia, Arm, Amazon, JP Morgan, Salesforce, Goldman Sachs, etc., with stipends ranging from 35k-1L per month. There is an online coding test for software roles, which filters out most of the eligible candidates, and then 1-3 rounds of technical interviews with DSA, OOPs, DB and System Design questions followed by a final (optional) HR round before the offer letter is sent out. Projects include internal tooling usually, with some wizards working on products with 5-20 MUA that have been shipped already. Tasks include implementing several new features and fixing bugs across critical codebases for the companies mentioned.
Placement Experience :
The eligibility criteria for placement is a 7.5 CGPA, but companies also impose their criteria, such as 10th and 12th board marks and possibly a higher CGPA cutoff like 8. Renowned companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, Goldman Sachs, Nvidia, Visa, JP Morgan, etc recruit across 5-15 roles, each offering an average package of 16-18L for CS-related and circuital branches. The highest package through campus placement regularly touches 54L, offered by Microsoft, which is led by our alumnus Satya Nadella, by the way, so it does make quite a few offers here. Almost everybody eligible for placements gets placed here, with the rest opting for postgraduate studies, with our alumni in every Ivy League you can imagine, and some go on to found their own companies, examples including Fractal Works, Formi and UpEase. My plans after getting a degree are to join a startup that makes products I'm passionate about in a hardware or software role, I'm proficient in both.
Campus Life :
Life in Manipal is absolutely beautiful. The college stands out among its private peers for not treating us like primary school children. Girls and guys can be friendly, a bad hangover does not get you suspended, and there is no dearth of places to party and socialize. The most happening part on campus, though, is the student projects' centre. These guys are building their own solar-powered, autonomous, formula (student) racing cars alongside custom-built robots, rockets, mars rovers, hyperloops, autonomous drones, eKarts, VR/AR worlds, and CTF teams. It is extremely rigorous and prestigious, with alumni of these student racing teams making it to several prestigious companies and universities. There are several reputed clubs here, including the local student branch of some acclaimed institutions like the IEEE, ACM, Google DSC, Apple DG and FAE. Hostels are diverse - with several options depending on your budget. There are multistorey blocks with a beautiful valley view and AC.
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