Questions Asked On IIIT Sri City, Sri City

You will definitely have a great time in Sri City and probably not feel like going back home after the amazing four years you will spend here. One of my friends has experienced the amazing campus life. He got really attached to this place. You will miss your friends and having fun at 3 am in the morning.

The IFMR canteen is one place where you will eat every possible thing on the menu and not attend classes. You will also end up taking a number of spontaneous trips. Even the small nitty-gritty like not being able to stay awake during class, running around for attendance will become so ingrained in your daily life that you will end up missing them. The teachers here are more like friends instead of professors. You will also miss the happiness of getting an unexpected holiday.

Your hostel room is going to be a place of great memories. It will witness breakups, patch-ups, and you at your best and worse. Sri City and the college will become your second home.

The early morning sunrises, evening strolls around the campus as well as the petrichor of the rain right after the blistering summer in May are things you will come to appreciate. While you might enter as a frightened fresher, you will be leaving as an experienced graduate. You will learn to become independent and will have gone through some of life’s toughest lessons.

In other words, you will come to love this place so much, you will definitely have tears in your eyes as you leave from here on your last day. Some of your best days will be from IIIT Sri City.

My friend is a pass out from IIIT Sri City and was placed at a well-reputed company. According to his experience, the secret to their great placement record is their curriculum.

As we all know that IIIT Hyderabad is the mentor institute of IIIT Sri City, it gets excellent faculty and placement assistance. The curriculum is totally different compared to NITs and IITs, so you will have a year of advantage over others because in IIITs there is no PCM in the first year.

You will be taught core subjects in depth from the first year itself, unlike regular B.Tech. This is a major plus point that helps train you enough for the placements later. Currently, the average package at IIIT Sri City is about 8–9 LPA and the highest is 24 LPA.

You might also get offered semester-long internships out of India in which you will get paid too.

Here is a list of some companies who recruit at IIIT Sri City:

• C A Technologies
• Michelin Tyres
• Seedo Labs
• Smart Pix
• O C Tanner
• HSBC Bank
• Mac Software
• Perceptive Analytics
• Spring M L
• Glocal Health Care
• Byju’s
• Flipkart (Operations)
• Zipper Technologies
• Apache Footwear

However, the placement package and company also depend on your skills and capabilities. So, you will need to strictly adhere to their curriculum to climb the ladder of success. Also, in case you miss the campus placements, the rigorous curriculum and training will make you capable of getting any good-paying job outside the campus.

No, IIIT Sri City is not an inferior institute. It is decent to invest your time and money in it. Below mentioned are a few features of the institute.

• The infrastructure has developed quickly in the past years to make it a fully-functional campus.
• The worthy students are filtered through JEE Mains and admitted to the institute. Many students have achieved top-ranks in the contests held around the country. Even a few seniors have secured admissions in the best universities of the world like MIT (USA), Carnegie Mellon University, etc.
• The system of IIIT is worthy. You do not have to prepare records, journals, and other things to submit. The traditional methods have been abolished. The assignments are connected to the practical learning experience. There is no waste of time and resources.
• The schedule is not tight. You will be able to manage all the crucial things like academics, extra self-learning things, and recreational activities at weekends.
• The students have joined the industries like E-Commerce, Ed-Tech, Data Analytics, IT Product and IT Services, Manufacturing, Consulting, Augmented, and Virtual Reality.
• The companies like Amazon, Hyundai, Finsol, etc., visit the campus.

It is a good institute, so try to make the most out of your experience there. It is important to make the right choices in terms of peers, college groups, clubs, etc.

IIIT Sri City is a promising institute. The points that make it different are as follows.

• Senior-Junior interactions are very engaging. Seniors guide and aid their juniors in every possible way.
• Coding culture is emerging in the institute. There is also a newly set-up programming club for organizing creative events and boost-up the spirit of students.
• Research work is very rigorous in IIIT Sri City. Students in the past have tremendous contributions in the research field like NLP, AI, etc. Even a few have published in international conferences.
• IIITS has a better and rigorous curriculum than other institutions of India. Lessons imparted to students in the initial trimesters give the students an edge over others.
• Students here are very enthusiastic. They work hard and are motivated enough for success.
• Students are allowed to drop a semester for the internship, but they cannot skip it.
• If students are aware of their interests, they can take-up Hons and do research in a field, and an obscure student can take up the BTP program. Students get a chance to hold two degrees, one is B. Tech, and the other is a Hons degree.

Drawbacks:

• Improper infrastructure as most of it is under construction. No proper facilities are available.
• The curriculum of college is decent, but the tuition fee is high. The faculty has no experience.
• No proper internet facility is the saddest part. The network is improper in the campus and the hostels.
• Mess food has no taste. The quality is poor. The city is also far-away.
• Competition based on grades among students.
• No proper sports facilities or extra-curricular activities.
• The location is such that it is isolated from the city. It is amid the village Tada, 80 km from Chennai.
• 85% attendance is compulsory.
• Placements are not decent. The main reason is the location. There are no good companies visiting the campus. The figures are as follows.

To conclude, the academics are good. But the institute will do so much better if it could overcome these drawbacks.

IIITDM Kancheepuram is an institute of national importance and it has an advantage over the other two institutes as both the institutes are IIITGs in PPP Mode. The bill to declare PPP mode as institutes of national importance is still pending in parliament. 

Here are a few pieces of information about the CSE/IT in the campuses mentioned in the question. 

IIIT Guwahati:

The institute started in the year 2013 and has a strong CS department with a good number of experienced faculties. 

• Prof Gautam Barua who is the director of the CS department at IIIT Guwahati was also the director of IIT Guwahati from 2003-13. With his immense experience, he aims to build the department strong. 
• Coming on to the curriculum of CSE/IT, it is well designed to suit the growing need of the industry. The intent here is to complete all the core subjects in the first 6 semesters so that students can choose the type of industry they want to get into. Like in the 4th semester, there is a subject called Computer Network which is generally a subject of 5/6th semester in other institutes. 
• In the CS department, IIIT Guwahati has come up with the Ph.D. program as well. 
• There are many advantages to join IIIT Guwahati but only a single disadvantage is there i.e. Location. But if you love to travel and nature, Guwahati is a place for you. 

IIIT Sri City: 

• The number of faculties at IIIT Sri City is nearly half as compared to IIIT Guwahati. 
• They also have MS and Ph.D. programs which indicates that they are also very active with regard to research. 
• They are being mentored by Prof. UB Desai who is also the director of IIT Hyderabad and a pioneer in System and Network Research in India. 

Both the colleges have their advantages and disadvantages. You have to analyze which is better for you to pursue B.Tech in CSE/IT as per your parameters. Good luck.