IIT Gandhinagar is a scam. Don't waste your rank here
Mai student hu in the BSBE here, and choosing this place is my biggest regret.
Here is the actual reality of what you're signing up for:
- Placements Joke hai
Companies don't visit, and the few that do offer embarrassingly low CTCs. If you plan to pivot to tech or data roles, you are entirely on your own. You'll be competing for non-core roles with CS/EE guys while you spent your semester trying to figure out why your gel electrophoresis run failed for the third time because of faulty lab utilities
- Labs are trash + shitty admin
The administration here is buried in red tape. If your project requires a specific enzyme, fresh media, or sequencing kits, expect to wait months. Theyre very fast when enforcing campus rules, cutting your stipend and other bullshti tho.
- Dead campus life
IITGNians brag about its open culture, but the actual vibe sucks. The campus is isolated, and Gandhinagar is culturally dead. There is zero after-college life, and the local environment is incredibly rigid and heavily policed.
- Professors run their personal fiefdom
Because your entire degree, thesis approval, recommendations depend on the (PI), they treat students like personal property. demanding 14-hour workdays, calling students at 2 AM to scream about data, and forcing them to handle non-academic personal chores. If you protest, withholding your stipend or delaying your graduation for years.
- Esp lrki ho to mt ao
If a student brings an issue to the internal committees, they are met with administrative red tape, victim-blaming, and intense pressure to quiet down "for the sake of the institute’s reputation" the moment a serious safety or harassment issue is raised, the system protects the perpetrators to shield itself from bad PR.
TL;DR: The IIT tag wears off fast. If you have the score go for Bombay, Delhi, Madras, even Roorkee or Kanpur. If not Indore, Jodhpur, KGP etc. Youll regret wasting your rank, esp in Biosciences. Yeh IIT bakwas hai mt ao. All the best kiddos. COAP ka bohot rounds hai, kuch achha lelo
Edit: for everyone commenting this is fake. i already regret my choice, tried to help others. but i cant force u to choose anything lol. u do u