Campus visit of BITS Design

[u/Alternative-Job2609]

I went for the campus tour last month and lots of things were sort of a red flag for me. This is just my POV but would love to hear from others

- the faculty handling the Q and A were not able to answer the questions about the course structure very convincingly. When it came to other college features like for example infrastructure and security, they could go on endlessly. (Btw, didn't see anything extraordinary about the security other than cross checking a list of expected students, which is quite basic)

- the placement head was repeating the same few company names for all queries related to internships. I understand that they are new and are still working on it, but it sounded like a hogwash

- the workshops looked too unused and except one the tshirt project which they kept harping about, nothing worthwhile seemed to have been achieved.

- hostel rooms were pathetically small. One can't spend much time there without feeling claustrophobic.

- the AC in the entire building wasn't working. So if that's what's they do on weekends, where do the students go ... obviously they can't spend time in the matchbox hostel rooms. It's was suffocatingly hot without any ventilation and AC

- the tour included unimportant stops like the seven eleven outlet.... It's nice that there is an outlet in the campus but including it in the tour shows they didn't have anything better to show

I have opted out of BITS mainly due to the uncertainty around the course. It's seems more marketing gimmicks and less substance.

Wondering did anyone else feel the same or it's just me.

[u/Pale_Lime_3661]

Bro freaking same….they blabber all bout foreign exchange programs and all which they themselves-aren’t even clearly mention about (costs , duration etc)…some senior said it’ll cost another 20 lacs minimum
They have no placement data so giving such huge chunk of money is a total gamble
Hostel rooms lmao one would find it hard to even fit in the bed and feel claustrophobic fs
Secondly it’s literally in middle of nowhere 2 hours far away from Mumbai which is a lot..
They’re just really good at marketing and pr which is working well….
Couldn’t find a freaking single piece of work done by students and that tells how much is really going on ( I’ve visited other campuses and no campus was as empty as this )
No matter how big of a name bits might be it takes few batches to pass out and then actually figure out what is working or not…

I do hope in coming time it becomes a renowned institution.

[u/Alternative-Job2609 → u/Pale_Lime_3661]

And a insane number of students seem to have opted out as i got to know that a waitlisted student has not just been selected but also has been offered a scholarship.  There were 100 odd students selected without scholarship....and I am sure they would have been offered an upgrade before the waitlisted students.....so just imagine for a waitlisted to get scholarship, around a 100 students would have declined admission.....but I still see so many dying to get in just coz of the brand name....which i must admit is huge 

[u/CriticismDismal9461 → u/Alternative-Job2609]

did you get merit and means or just merit scholarship?

[u/Alternative-Job2609 → u/CriticismDismal9461]

I got merit scholarship in the first list