Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology - [IIEST] Shibpur, Howrah - Course & Fees Details

The fees of IIEST Shibpur keep changing with time, and the present structure is published on the institute’s website accordingly. The present overall first-semester fee is Rs. 42,500, for M.Tech, which is broken into different fragments as stated below in the following table.

Key Highlights:

• The total first-semester fee includes a refundable caution deposit of Rs. 3000. For the other three semesters, the fee remains Rs. 39,400.
• There is a hostel fee of Rs. 1900, which is not mentioned in the fee breakup table.
• Other than the hostel fees, there is a variable mess fee of about Rs. 3500. There is also an extra annual mess fee of near about Rs. 4000-5000, which depends upon the expenditure.

This is the overall structure for the M.Tech fee in IIEST, Shibpur. Other than this, there are other expenses that depend upon the candidate’s way of living and standards.

The second-oldest engineering institute in the country is the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science & Technology, Shibpur (formerly named BESU and B. E. College). Since 2014, it has been listed as an Institute of National Significance like IITs or IISc by the Parliament's NITZER Act.

Courses Offered: 

This Institute offers 5-year full-time dual degree courses (i.e. 10-semester courses) in the following divisions of the undergraduate course.

• Engineering & Applied Mechanics in Aerospace
• Civil Engineering Business
• The Science and Technology of Computers
• Electrical engineering engineering
• Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication
• Informational Technology
• Engineering in Mechanics
• Metallurgy and Engineering Materials
• Engineering in Mining

The Institute also offers a 5-year full-time undergraduate course in Architecture on a regular basis.

The Integrated Dual Degree Five-Year Curriculum or program for the following Departments of Science and Humanities are funded by the Arch Program, as stated above.

• Chemistry 
• Physics
• Mathematics
• Earth Science
• Social Sciences and Humanities.

These departments have post-graduate and doctoral programs of their own. There are several specialized centers and schools offering PG and Ph.D. programs at this Institute.

Any college can be good for competitive programming. It all relies on you to educate yourself, to learn new strategies, and to spend hours coding. 

• Anudeep Nekkanti is one such example. He was recruited by Google and qualified for ACM ICPC world finals. If you look at the name of his college, it's not one of those elite ones. 
• There was no competitive programming pattern in BESU/IIEST until recently. But many students have taken competitive programming platforms such as Codechef and HackerRank over the last few years.
• You can search the Codechef Rating System site to verify it for yourself. You get a college-wise database of the number of students actively engaged in competitive coding and their results using this platform.

Lastly, don't support the myth that the only way to prove yourself as a coder is competitive programming. There are other coding fields as well. In this sense, do not consider that there was no "real coder" in IIEST because there was no competitive coding pattern previously in IIEST (BESU back then). 

Some of the alumni of the institute are working in top companies in India and overseas and have never been interested in competitive coding.