It is amazing how the culture and atmosphere in the universities that one attended leave an inedible mark in your

psyche. You never are out of IIT through out the life.

All IIT, BHU Varanasi (my Alma mater, pass out in 1958) are great source of knowledge, first class faculty who bonded with us at all times.

I am a Ceramic graduate from IIT BHU and now let us compare a B.Tech from a private college.
There are couple of things that I observed that makes IIT’s a stand out place from local engineering colleges :
1. World class faculty – When I say world class, I mean that their research work/though processes matches their peers at any world class university outside India. Though this is not true of every professor at IIT (there are bad apples even here), its true on an average sense.

2. World class faculty initiating world class knowledge exchange – This is the point where students at IIT’s start getting exposed to knowledge at its various forms/deeper levels by such accomplished faculties. Thus, instead of only solving numerical problems, they are exposed to use of computers/experiments to substantiate the practical application of the subject matter.

3. Active student bodies – Many of such students get self motivated to engage in research work/product development/project. This is where active students bodies help them with further guidance. For example t STAB [2] – a forum that helps students build upon their electronic skills and do ‘cool’ stuff like building projects with Arduino, Raspberry Piher is, robotics, RC planes etc.

4. Availability of funds for student activities – This is perhaps the most important difference. Most local private colleges focus on becoming a profit machine by ensuring that they establish an identity for themselves among the sea of other peer institutions. The managements in these institutions are generally not much concerned about quality of faculty researches or student projects [However, this trend is fast changing]. In IIT’s funds are abundant – either in form of alumni funding, company sponsorship or ministry funding. More funds mean more access to learning tools.
In all of these, I see a common trend – that students in IIT’s learn engineering by doing it and not by reading about it. In most cases, the vice versa is true in local colleges.

The bond between the students is very strong irrespective of the IIT they attended.

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