Branch changes allowed after first year at NIT Rourkela
June 11th, 2007
Update: I thought this was new to NIT Rourkela. Based on the reader’s comments it seems it has been there for some time and it is also there at UCE Burla.
NIT Rourkela now allows students to change their branches after first year based on their grades and possibly subject to some rules. The students who were able to change this year are listed here. The top three changed to Computer Science. Branch changes were allowed at IIT Kharagpur based on first year performance and subject to a cap of 10% extra seat in each branch. I assumed a similar cap may be operational at NIT Rourkela. NIT Rourkela has close ties with IIT Kharagpur in that its director, Professor Sunil Sarangi, was a longtime facuty at IIT Kharagpur. Its great that he is bringing in good ideas from IIT Kharagpur and implementing them in NIT Rourkela. One idea, which was somewhat unique to IIT Kharagpur, and which should be brought to NIT Rourkela, if not already done, is the notion of a student budgeted hostel library.
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1. Kanhu | June 11th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
The concept of branch change after first year very much existed in UCE, Burla when I was a student there ~1997 and students were able to change branch after first year depending on first year performance. I am not sure since how long this existed in Burla and if it’s being continued after BPUT takeover.
2. Piyush Patnaik | June 12th, 2007 at 10:56 am
This facility was available to students in NIT Rourkela during our times 92-96. This is not a new concept.
3. Sandip K. Dasverma | June 13th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
What is a “a student budgeted hostel library” concept? Can someone elaborate?
Best wishes,
Sandip
4. Chitta Baral | June 13th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
In IIT Kharagpur every hostel has its own library. I do not know how it started. But every year the student general body makes a budget for that library. The budget amount is divided among the boarders and they pay it with their monthly mess bill. The money is used to buy books for the library. Over the years the library gets bigger and bigger and many student also donate their books. So when I was a student I could often get half my text books from the hostel library.
5. kushrai | January 11th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
i want to know the information about rebranching in first year.