How is Chemical Engineering at MANIT Bhopal?

If you are considering the Chemical Engineering Department at MANIT Bhopal, here are some pros and cons based on the experience of a current student:

Pros:

• The department has relatively small class sizes of around 60 students. This allows for more one-on-one interaction with professors, similar to what you may have experienced in school.
• The HOD (Head of Department) and senior faculty members are helpful and care about the interests of students.
• Despite being a newer department (started around 10 years ago), the Chemical Engineering Department has maintained decent placement records.
• Compared to other departments, there are fewer classes, giving you more time for yourself to prepare for future prospects such as GATE, CAT, GRE, etc.
• The department has better infrastructure than many other departments at MANIT, and the labs have continuously improved over the past few years.

Cons:

• There are no professors in the Chemical Engineering Department, only Assistant Professors. This can lower the standard of education, which may not be what one would expect from an NIT.
• Most of the courses are taught by Contract Faculties who can be rude, non-qualified, and excessively egoistic.
• The department has a skewed relative grading system where no one gets a perfect 10 in any subject, even if they score as high as 97/98. This diminishes the point of having a relative grading system.
• There is no library in the department, and even the college library is in a state of extreme disarray.

Overall, if you are considering the Chemical Engineering Department at MANIT, it is important to weigh the pros and cons mentioned above. While the department has small class sizes, helpful senior faculty members, and decent placements, it also has a lack of professors, rude contract faculties, a skewed grading system, and a lack of library resources.

My sister is pursuing her Chemical Engineer at MANIT Bhopal. Here’s her input about the branch. 

• Compared to other branches, ChemE is new and is not as developed. There a lot of scope for improvement. The work process and management mainly need attention. 
• They don’t have permanent and good professors of main subjects and most of the classes are taken by the temporary staff. But, they are working continuously to make the environment students friendly.
• The newly made mass transfer lab in the new premises is good. Otherwise, the old labs hardly have a machine in working condition. 
• There is nothing sort of academic pressure there and it’s not very difficult to score good marks. 
• The average salary offered here is 7.57 LPA

Don’t expect much from the institute in terms of academics. You have to make the best out of what is offered.