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Even if you get the Forest Management (FM) program at IIFM Bhopal for free, do not take it. You will waste over ₹12 lakhs and two years of your life because the program is in a terrible state, and there is absolutely no industry demand for it. Do not fall into the trap just by seeing the "Indian Institute" tag.

You can consider Sustainability Management (SM) as it is somewhat better, but as for Forest Management, almost everyone is sitting idle at home or working in jobs that pay only ₹10,000 to ₹20,000. Do not choose FM under any circumstances; there is still time to change your decision.

The hostels at IIFM Bhopal are in extremely bad condition, beyond description. Snakes literally crawl out of the toilets here. To make matters worse, taking photos or videos of these issues is strictly forbidden. If you are caught taking pictures or posting them online, management threatens that you will not be granted your degree. I honestly do not understand why people still want to come here. Nobody pays any attention to the infrastructure, and everything is 45 years old. Please, do not take admission here.

In the hostels, three people are crammed into a single room with no AC. A single toilet and bathroom are shared by six people, making it impossible to ever take a proper shower. You will regret your decision and suffer miserably for two years after investing ₹12 lakhs.

Do not even ask about the placements. In the Forestry Management (FM) branch, 80 students are still unplaced. Sustainability Management (SM) is slightly better, but its condition is also poor. The professors use outdated teaching methods, and the labs are in terrible shape. This institution feels like it is on the verge of shutting down in a few years.

To attend classes, you have to walk from the hostel to the campus through what is essentially a dense jungle. It is terrifying, extremely far, and walking in 45-degree heat is unbearable. Above all, there is absolutely no security for girls. The girls' hostels are not safe at all. Please do not come here—do not waste your two years and ₹12 lakhs.

The hostels at IIFM Bhopal are in extremely bad condition, beyond description. Snakes literally crawl out of the toilets here. To make matters worse, taking photos or videos of these issues is strictly forbidden. If you are caught taking pictures or posting them online, management threatens that you will not be granted your degree. I honestly do not understand why people still want to come here. Nobody pays any attention to the infrastructure, and everything is 45 years old. Please, do not take admission here.

In the hostels, three people are crammed into a single room with no AC. A single toilet and bathroom are shared by six people, making it impossible to ever take a proper shower. You will regret your decision and suffer miserably for two years after investing ₹12 lakhs.

Do not even ask about the placements. In the Forestry Management (FM) branch, 80 students are still unplaced. Sustainability Management (SM) is slightly better, but its condition is also poor. The professors use outdated teaching methods, and the labs are in terrible shape. This institution feels like it is on the verge of shutting down in a few years.

To attend classes, you have to walk from the hostel to the campus through what is essentially a dense jungle. It is terrifying, extremely far, and walking in 45-degree heat is unbearable. Above all, there is absolutely no security for girls. The girls' hostels are not safe at all. Please do not come here—do not waste your two years and ₹12 lakhs.

A snake entered my room yesterday, and honestly, this is a very common issue here at IIFM Bhopal. Snakes frequently get into the rooms. If anyone is planning to take admission here, please make sure to bring extra newspapers with you.

They sell dreams in glossy brochures and Instagram posts, but step inside and you’ll see the reality.

More than 65 students are still unplaced.
Yes, unplaced. After paying lakhs. After trusting the promises. After believing that an MBA here would secure a future.

The average package? Around 7 LPA for FM and 8 LPA for SM. Sounds decent until you realize how many students are still struggling without jobs, without PPOs, without hope.

And internships? What a joke.

The Summer Internship Committee proudly releases posters, but half the companies are brought by students themselves because the college and the committee cannot arrange enough opportunities. And among those internships, more than half are unpaid.

Unpaid.

Imagine going to:

• Mumbai
• Delhi
• Kolkata

…to work for free while paying rent, food, transport, and surviving in expensive cities on nothing.

Even the “paid” internships give an average stipend of barely ₹10,000. Ten thousand. In metro cities. That isn’t opportunity , that’s exploitation dressed up as experience.

And PPOs? Most companies simply refused.

Now imagine the future. A batch of 300 students running after the same shrinking number of opportunities. Competition, desperation, anxiety all increasing while the institution quietly protects its image.

But placements are only one side of the nightmare.

Let’s talk about the hostels.

Forty-six degree heat… and students sleeping without proper AC. Sweating through nights while management talks about “student welfare.”

Broken windows. Trash everywhere. Wi-Fi that barely works. Six boys sharing one filthy washroom. No proper shower. No geyser. No dignity.

And the worst part?

Snakes crawling out from washroom holes.

This is not a hostel. This is survival.

Students come here with ambition and slowly learn helplessness instead.

And if you dare to speak? If you question the system? If you defend yourself?

You are threatened with being debarred from placements.

Silence becomes compulsory. Fear becomes policy.

So before taking admission, don’t just listen to advertisements and placement posters. Talk to the students who are actually suffering behind the walls of the campus.

Because once you enter, the dream they sold you may become the regret you carry.