What Students Say
Likes
- Academics- JNU indeed has the best professors and curriculum. Every Wednesday we have seminar which is organised by our Chinese Department, where we get to meet and discuss about various issues and world affairs from the best faculties .
- Academics - It is compulsory for bachelors student to have 8 optional courses. They offer wide variety of optional courses that will help you master a lot of other subjects and not just chinese. It also develope you answer writing skills
- Apart from that , the campus is very beautiful and peaceful. So much better than rest of the delhi, pollution is very low. Central library is the best place to study, and is open 24*7. You can find so many people studying here its very motivating
Dislikes
- Dislike - hostels, hostels are very cheap but not well built, food is not good in most of the hostels but for the price it is still better than a lot of private universities which costs a lots
- Dislike - academics are very hectic, every month there is an exam and between those exams there are exams of optional courses. So you barely get personal time and spend most of the time in attending classes. So it gets quite hectic.
- Politics - although it doesn't affect me much but there is so much poltics here that you feel compelled to choose a side. You'll come here only to realise that left and right both of these sides are bad
Course Curriculum Overview
The course curriculum in chinese is quite old but it helps . Like it in not divided in HSK chinese level and is mixed but helps in understanding the subject matter and the implications of it. It prepares us for translation, for real life conversations and formal or informal meeting etc. Exams are conducted every month and all of them hold weightage. So it is compulsory to attend them. The marks of best of 2 are added. The level of difficulty varies from time to time.
Internships Opportunities
Till now I have not taken up any internship as my academics are hectic and I barely get any time but i am hoping soon. So I cannot give any idea regarding that. But i have heard from seniors that when India China relations were better, Chinese embassy used to hire students .
Placement Experience
From third year itself companies starts visiting the campus. Chinese companies like Oppo and Vivo often recruit from chinese centre. They often require translators and interpreters, so it always some MNC with business regarding China or in China. Most of them pay really well. Most of the students gets accepted. People in JNU are more in academia than corporate so people rather go for masters and PhD. My plan is to appear for CAT and do MBA.
Fees and Financial Aid
Tuition fee is bare minimum. Probably 118 rupees per semester. And there are no other charges except hostel and mess fee. At the time of your admission in the hostel they charge around 6k out of which i guess 50% is refundable and then mess bill comes around 3-4k which is not a lot . But still a scholarship programme called MCM is there which aids 2k per month for underprivileged students or low income students. Over-all you cannot find such quality education in this amount anywhere in the country. Placement is quite good both in bachelors and masters students are being paid around 12 lpa CTC as freshers after graduating from our centre which is still a lot.
Campus Life
JNU do not have a lot of fests, most of them are cultural program and seminars . Cultural program also happens once in a blue moon because of hectic academic schedule. However seminar and conferences are quite common and actually more useful than fests as you get to interact with scholars around the world.Our Chinese centre celebrates Spring Festival each other and that is the only known celebration. Apart from that this year Chinese Centre completed it 50 year so we had a cultural program to honour that.
Hostel Facilities
Hostel are decent for the fact that you almost live here for free. Meals are also decent not very good neither bad, but for the price it is so much better that private institutions who charge a lot still offers bad food. For the amount of money , food is good. There are few criteria for hostel allotment and you must fulfill it. You won't get a hostel if you're a local. You can certainly rent a PG or a Room in Munirka.
Admission
I got into JNU via CUET. I scored 95 percentile in CUET which is enough to get into any desired course. Everything is there on JNU's website, once you clear your CUET exams you can immediately apply for JNU . Reservation is there for OBC, SC , ST and EWS. You have to clear General Test and English paper in order to get into JNU , the general test is not very hard , and english is also quite basic, with a bit of practice you can easily excel this. The admission process is quite exhausting cause it takes almost 2 days to finalise all kinds of document verification and all. Other than it the only problem is that you don't get hostel immediately and it takes time to get accomodation inside the campus. Various political parties are present there to help you with your documents which is a good thing.
Faculty
There are 30/40 students in per class and each class gets almost 5 professors for each subject. They are extremely well educated. Most of them are PhD holders, a few of them have MPhil. They're well learned and have written books. One of our professors have recieved the highest literary award in China. So you can imagine their credentials. Most of the professors teach well and really care about your progress just like in school. Our professors spare time for us after class if we ever want to meet them . Most of them are really understanding and cool.
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