School Of Advanced Engineering, UPES, Dehradun All Questions

Hi Swain

University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES), Located at Dehradun with main campus in Bidholi village 25 km from main city. This a private university operated be some corporate businessman’s. I have in person studied and worked here for a total of five years. I think it my duty to provide an insight incidences/happening about UPES which might help you in taking your decision about this University.

My observations are as follows:

Merits:

1. The location of UPES is just behind Mussorie hills. There also trekking route from UPES back gate to mussorie with a fishing point (river) in between. Also the campus is neat and clean and well maintained. I consider it an option to tour UPES for a few days if you have some time. This only merit it has right now.

Demits:

1. The actual fees (not fees structure) and other expenses like industrial tour, summer classes, reevaluation, direct study, corticated issue, library and other activities are very high. If you are on a student loan then kindly avoid this university and you will not able to clear your loan on your salary and in the end become a bank defaulter at a young age.

2. Teaching and research quality is poor and mismanaged also.

3. Placement cells officials treat the final year students badly when they contently enquire about a job offer. Placement is very poor means up to 40-50%; with most of the jobs in hand salary is approximately 15,000 Rupees per month. They will show you tall promises and companies coming but in actuality they are not capable enough to put their 3rd year students of engineering in summer internship also. In the end they pressurize student to go and get it on their own. You can verify this with 4th year students in private.

4. This time in year 2016 almost 50% seats in engineering are lying vacant in UPES. For a glimpse Power system Engineering registered students 5 out of 60, Electrical Engineering 30/60, Electronics Engg 25/60, Instrumentation 0/60, Energy trading 0/ 60, Mechanical Deptt 250/500, civil Engineering 30/60, Geoscience 30/60, Automotive Design Engg 45/60, Applied Petroleum 45/60 etc. In nut and shell UPES is a sinking ship now.

5. Faculty qualification and quality is questionable. 90 % faculty are Ph. D. from UPES itself or are pursuing Ph. D. from there, which believe is worthless degree of this University. This university do not any research facility, software (in actual), IEEE full fledge subscriptions etc. Everything is for formality or on paper. They teach their faculty to be nicely dressed like a gentleman that’s it.

6. One faculty of law cores was caught taking bribe (cash) for increasing their attendance is his course. Seldom faculty asks for alcohol, wine etc. for marks or attendance. You can verify this online.

7. One dean was caught asking for sexual favor from girl students by calling them at his residence. This you can too verify.

8. NAAC committee which provides grades to Indian Universities as per their performance has awarded Grade ‘C’ to UPES because of its worst academic performance and this is the lowest grade awarded to any Indian university. You can directly verify this from UPES as they do not disclose this information.

9. They tried many times to get rid of C grade called NAAC for reevaluation but still they gave honestly C grade.

10. They do not provide course books study material to students from the library so as to cover all the courses of a semester. They will charge you full for the books will provide you 3-4 books for a semester, ask you to buy others own your own and take the issued one back and then again issue then to juniors after taking money from them. Verify this too directly from the librarian face to face.

11. Engineering degrees given by UPES are not accepted for government jobs. 100 % verify this from passed out. This true for 80% degrees of UPES and mostly students came to know this when they apply for a government job and go for an interview. Students went for strike due to this in UPES for 15 days but nothing happened. In the end they say government jobs are boring go for private jobs.

12. Laboratories in UPES are in worst of its state do visit them. Except (Physics & chemistry labs which are average) all other labs worst than labs in other small private colleges in terms of lab space, technicians, equipment quality, latest experiments, working condition of software available. UPES spends least money on labs, keep a note of this point.

13. Sold out, yes UPES is sold out to laureate group whose sole purpose is only to increase its profits. This is despite of the fact that UPES call itself a non profit organisation. Various cases in uttarakhand courts are registered on UPES in issues like this

There is nothing like a certain amount of marks. You need to do your best.

Admission to courses is based on rank not on marks. If you have a better rank, you get a chance to get into a better course. As simple as that.

All the best :)

• Candidates must have a valid GATE score
• Candidates must have passed B.E/B.Tech in their respective disciplines with a minimum of 60% in aggregate
• Candidates must also have obtained a minimum 60% marks at Higher & Senior Secondary level (10th & 12th)

Hello CSE Business Analytics would be best at UPES Dehradun. They have tied up with IBM to provide this program & that is certainly a great move. UPES provides some of the best faculties & from what i know the placements are great as well. You have various career opportunities like Package implementation (such as Cognos, SPSS/SAS, Informatica, etc ; Data Warehousing Specialists and System Administrators BI/BAO Specialist and Architects ; BI/BAO Project Managers ; BAO Infrastructure Specialists, etc. I think this will help you in deciding. 

For all M. Tech. programs, candidates with valid GATE 2017 score will be preferred. Apart from this there is different eligibility criteria for different M.tech courses

for all the Mtech courses you can check through this websitehttps://www.upes.ac.in/admission-alertdetail.aspx?aid=120&alertid=17&mpgid=125&pgidtrail=125

all the best

No, you can not registered again if you have done your registration. 

Are you facing any problem in your application form?

According, to Careers360 rating it has AAA+ rating which means good

(A : Lowest Rating || AAAAA : Highest Rating)

Yes, you have a good scope if you persue IB from UPES dehradun.

Below are the career options while doing IB from UPES

Export-Import Management

Finance/ Forex Management

Compliance Management

Key Account Management

Logistics Management

Marketing

Brand Management

You can choose the college according to your interest that if you want to do retail management or IB.

If you have a choice between colleges UPES and BIMTECH you can go for BIMTECH as it has higher rating than UPES but courses wise IB has more scope than retail management. 

Yes, these are top private colleges of engineering you should apply for these exams.

You should apply for as many as entrance exam to have good option in your hand.

If you are well prepared for JEE Main exam you can easily crack these exams as JEE Main level is higher. 

You can check the details below

BITSAT-  You can appear in BITSAT to take admission to the Integrated First Degree Programmes of Engineering at its 3 campuses - Pilani, Goa and Hyderabad

BITS Pilani will conduct BITSAT 2018 in online mode, tentatively from the third week of May to the last week of May 2018.

In order to be eligible for this exam you should have 75% aggregate marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics  in your 2th class. Also, in each of the 3 subjects, they must also secure 60% marks separately.

To check the syllabus you can refer below link

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/bitsat-syllabus

VITEEE- VIT University conducts VIT Engineering Entrance Exam (VITEEE) for admissions to various undergraduate engineering programmes across its Vellore and Chennai campuses. There are nearly 5,000 B.Tech seats for which around two lakh candidates register for VITEEE every year

In order to be eligible for this exam you should have scored an aggregate of 60% in Maths, Physics and Chemistry in 10+2 and for SC, ST, J&K, North Eastern states you should have scored an average 50% marks in Physics, Maths and Chemistry in 10+2 or its equivalent exam.

To apply for the application form you can refer below link

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/viteee-application-form

To check the syllabus you can refer below link

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/viteee-syllabus

SRM- SRM University conducts SRM Joint Engineering Entrance Examination (SRMJEEE) for granting admissions at nearly 7,000 undergraduate engineering seats across its four campuses - Kattankulathur, Ramapuram, Ramapuram Part– Vadapalani and NCR Ghaziabad.

You can check the syllabus of the exam below

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/srmjeee-syllabus

To know in detail about all the exam you can refer below link

https://engineering.careers360.com/exams

Good Luck!!

All these colleges are good and have good ratings overall.

According, to careers 360 SRM, VIT and Top NITs has AAAA+ rating which means outstanding.

Top IIITs have AAAA rating which means very good.

Ratings are based on faculty, placements, Cut-offs of national / state level Entrance exams, Accreditation and Reward status and Publication record from Elsevier’s indexing database - Scopus

If we check the NIRF ranking then SRM is in 35 position, VIT is in 13th position, Top NIT Tiruchirappalli in is 11th position and top IIITHyderabad is in 75th position.

It totally depends on your choice which college you prefer.

For Government NITs are in the top for private VIT and SRM are in the top if you are opting for petroleum and chemical branch then UPES Dehradun has good placements.

Good Luck!!