Great college to study, learn and excel.
Placements: I belong to 2019-21 Batch. 40% of my batch are looking for jobs as of Feb 2022 (I. e. 8 months after graduation). Most of the roles offered through campus placements are very basic ones. Many companies which came to hire MBA students have also hired B.Tech students with 1-2 Lacs package difference (annual package). This is because many companies which came to hire belong to ed-tech category which hire Business Development profiles. A Bank has hired 15 students at 3.5 LPA package (in-hand salary per month comes to around 25k with bonus at the year end). A HR company hired a person at 7.5 L package and she quit her job within 2 months due to toxic work culture. Two companies came to hire but it turns out they were not regularly paying salaries to their employees. When a student complained about this, placement cell told the student that "it is student responsibility" to do research. I worked as a student placement coordinator and haven't heard of 70% of the company names which came for final campus placements. Around 5 students got very good jobs but 4 of them got jobs through off-campus on their own (I am one of them). The best campus placement was offered by KPMG (Big 4) where they hired a student from our batch and it was great role/decent package for which they hired. I felt very happy to see a Big 4 company coming to the campus and hiring. Placement training was quite disappointing. Less than 10 sessions were hosted. No mock interviews, no proctored aptitude tests, no final placement resume prep guidance etc. Internships were quite good. One student got internship at Reserve Bank of India, I & a batchmates of mine got internship at IIFCL (Central government. PSU). Many decent companies came for internships. University has put great good efforts to bring good internships. Our juniors got internships at RBI TATA Steel etc. When we got these great internship opportunities, all of us were quite happy and had great expectations for final placements. However, all our batch members (except the guy who got hired by KPMG) were very disappointed with quality and quantity of companies which came to hire. This is how I would rate the opportunities in terms of various profiles -
Sales - 9/10
Marketing - 4/10
General Finance - 3/10
Core Finance - 0/10
HR - 3/10.
Infrastructure: Everything about the hostel is awesome. Hands-down the best campus I have ever seen and lived. I am a proactive person who loves to participate in various competitions. I visited 50+ college campuses across India but have never seen the vibe which I could get at Manipal University Jaipur campus. Just amazing. There is always one event (or) the other event which goes on. College is very supportive about students when it comes to extra curricular activities. I got sponsored by college to participate in various events. Faculty always encourage students to do well in life. Infrastructure and the vibe of the campus is simply great. All facilities are available. One of my favorite places of the campus is library. Such a nice place to go. The head librarian Mr. Shivraj is very supportive and coincidentally, he was also the chief librarian when I was doing engineering in another college. Sports, games, medical facilities, play grounds etc. Are all available to students. Hostel students can take maximum advantage compared to day scholars. There are Restaurants, Supermarkets, Salon, Laundry, Stationary etc. Within hostel. Lots of food outlets present. My favorite ones are Dominoes and Dev Sweets. I never miss out on these two places. Unfortunately our campus life came to an end due to pandemic and lockdown in 2020. After that, we never went back to the campus. I badly miss it! All our memories were short lived.
Faculty: I would rate course curriculum to be 3.5 out of 5. All the courses come with very strong fundamentals. In terms of basics, you won't find any course anywhere which can cover more than what you learn here. What's missing in the course structure are industry standard tools. Today as an MBA student, one needs to know at least few tools to get opportunities at Start-ups, MNCs, MSMEs etc. Tools like Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python etc. Due to lack of tools in the curriculum, it is quite difficult to get any jobs for freshers. No serious placement training is another disadvantage. I learnt most of the above tools with online courses and they helped me to get decent opportunities in finance domain via off-campus. Faculty members are quite supportive. My favorite faculty is Dr. Anirvinna, our economics professor. I love all the courses taught by him as he blends Current Affairs into regular courses. He teaches with interest and passion. I followed all of his suggestions throughout my MBA which helped me in many ways. One of the reasons why I am doing well after MBA is because of him. I am forever thankful to him. My favorite courses are finance-Tech and Information Systems taught by our dean sir Dr. Sudhendar Hanumantha Rao. He blends Current Affairs within the course and provides amazing insights. I used to look forward to each and every class of his. The way he explains things is simply brilliant and awesome. Such an amazing person. He offered me help several times to get better opportunities for career.
Other: I chose to do MBA because it would add value to my profile. I am very thankful to the university for providing me merit scholarship. Personally, I am very happy with the university in all aspects (I am happy because I got very good opportunities off-campus and reached my end goals). If industry standard tools are part of curriculum, then the coursework will become strong and makes students more employable.
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