Whether a university is good or not depends on a lot of factors and also your expectations. You need to check for their NAAC accreditations, AICTE approval status, NIRF ranking, placement records of 4-5 years, fee, infrastructure, college reputation, academic standards including faculty, and many more. 

You should preferably choose a similarly ranked college and find out how Karunya University fits. As for admissions, Karunya University conducts its own entrance exam called Karunya Entrance Examination (KEE) every year for admissions in its B.Tech programs. 

There is no management quota present at the university as it was abolished in 2012. 

If you want to live in a place that is close to a river, has a beautiful campus and the climate of the city and region should be good, then Karunya is definitely a good university campus.

One of my friends graduated from Karunya University and he was enrolled in the 1st batch of Aerospace Engineering and was hesitant about the same. However, later on, the department has improved and now it offers great opportunities. 

• Life at Karunya was pleasant and conducive and the campus has a unique and comfortable atmosphere that provided good interaction between the faculty and the students.
• Placement assistance is offered to students with great opportunities to help them choose a good career for themselves.
• The aerospace department offers industrial visits and chances for in-plant training to obtain a good industrial experience and to get familiarised with the actual work environment.
• The faculties are well experienced and provide support and guidance in organizing events at University and National Levels.
• The department is well equipped with aerodynamics, structures, and propulsion labs that are hardly available in other universities.

You can definitely go for Aerospace Engineering at Karunya University. It will be worth it.

The admission process at Karunya University is very simple. To secure a seat at the university, you will need to fulfill the following eligibility criteria. 

• Minimum 60% in your 10th standard.
• Above 50% in your 12th standard.

For the application form, you can either contact the office of the university or can visit the website of the university and fill-up the form. After that, you will have to make a payment of Rs. 51000. This amount includes Rs.50000 as the first-semester fee; the rest Rs. 1000 is the application fee.

After completing this process, you will get a provisional admission.

If you are talking about service-based placement then, you will have good opportunities at Karunya. Many companies like Accenture, IBM, TechMahindra, Cognizant visit the campus placements. The average salary offered by service-based companies ranges from 2.7 LPA - 3.5 LPA. 

However, there are very few product-based companies visiting the campus placements. Some of the product-based companies that visit the campus placements are Nutanix, Netapp, etc. These companies also take a limited number of students, 1-5 at maximum. 

Also don’t expect reputed MNCs like Microsoft, Facebook, etc. 

Overall, Karunya offers decent placements. Around 80-85% of students get placed, every year. The highest CTC offered last year was 25 LPA.

The least amount of tax deduction is done while making payments via NEFT/RTGS so, it is the best method of fee payment.

The other available options are as follows.

• Online Banking: Credit Card/ Debit Card/ Net Banking
• Challan: All you have to do is download the challan from the university’s website, fill it up and pay the amount by visiting the nearby Syndicate Bank. Keep the challan with yourself. You will have to show it to the finance department once you visit the university.
• Demand Draft: You can draw a Demand Draft addressing “The Registrar, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences” payable at “Coimbatore”. You can post it to the finance department of the institution or else produce it once you visit the university. If you post it, you will have to pay a small amount, probably Rs.50.

These are the ways in which you can pay the fees at Karunya University.

A lot of my friends studied at Karunya University. According to them, Karunya University is very popular and reputed with great placement opportunities.

• To be shortlisted for campus placements, you should maintain your CGPA around 7-8.8, as this score is good and safe for campus placements. 
• Also, you must score more than 60% in both class 10th and class 12th. 
• You should have very good knowledge and understanding of the subjects as many companies check your aptitude skills more than theoretical knowledge. 
• To get a job in core companies the CGPA must be above 7.5.
• Some popular IT companies such as Wipro, Accenture, Infosys, CTS, TCS, etc. want students with CGPA more than 7. They will take the aptitude skills test. You will have to focus more on your aptitude to get better offers. 
• Focus on your communication skills along with your aptitude and maintain a CGPA of more than 7 to successfully get selected. 
• If you can maintain a CGPA more than 8, it is even better to get shortlisted at core companies. 
• To secure higher CGPA, study well during your first and second semester, as these two semesters carry more weightage in overall CGPA than the rest of the semesters. 

Hence, you can get easily selected in campus placements if you can maintain a good CGPA and possess very good knowledge and understanding of your subjects. 

Ragging does exist at Karunya University but on an extremely small scale. There would be an optimum amount of ragging which would not exceed a certain limit. My brother is currently in the third year of his graduate program at Karunya University. During the first year of college, he faced ragging from his seniors. The ragging he faced can be considered to be healthy. The ragging also helped my brother in making connections at the university and in getting associated with several seniors that were helpful up till his third year of college.

A few of the seniors he interacted with during his first years made him sing, dance, write poems, short stories, and narrate for documentaries. These can be considered to be the negative aspect of the ragging he faced. Nevertheless, the positive aspect was that many of them assisted and guided him about not only his career but they gave him useful insights into the various stages of life. 

All of this does not sound very critical, but ragging is considered a criminal offense in India and is prohibited. As per what my brother told me, a prevention cell to help out students is there at the university. If the situation becomes intolerable, you can always reach out to the prevention cell or contact the concerned authorities of the university.

The entrance examination conducted by Karunya University is not that difficult. My friend scored 80 marks in the JEE Main examinations. The syllabus includes a few additional topics that are not included in the curriculum of classes 11th and 12th in the Indian education system.

He attempted the examination and started with the section of mathematics. After he attempted a few questions from the mathematics sections, he moved to the physics section. He was not able to crack the solutions for many of the questions from the section of physics. However, He still kept trying and successfully solved around 70 percent of the questions from Physics. For his set, the section of Chemistry was extremely difficult. He attempted 50% of the questions from the Chemistry section. 

The next section he attempted was of logical reasoning. He solved all the questions from this section leaving out around 1-2 questions. Then he continued his examination with the Ethics section. He answered 2 questions out of 10 and from them one was a guess.

He found the examination to be pretty easy. He later found out from someone that only students who have secured a rank above 1000 in the examination would be considered for the admission process of the university.