Questions Asked On Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata

BVP Pune would be a better choice as Pune is a technical city and plays an important factor in the placements. The city has all the MNCs and is the top place for a student for great placements.

Also, Bharti Vidyapeeth Pune is among the best private Universities in the city because of the well-educated and experienced faculty and also the placement packages it furnish. Therefore, you should go for BVP Pune as it will be a better choice.

I can assist you with the latest scenario of Chemical Engineering at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata.

Curriculum:

• Being an autonomous institute, the curriculum is pretty up-to-date. Though subjects such as Petroleum Refinery Engineering, Piping, etc are missing
• As the institute is new, you can see the slightest change in the syllabus over a timely basis.

Faculty:

• Maximum teaching faculties have done their Ph.D. from reputed institutes and some even have exceptional teaching qualities.
• There are few, who are willing to put in extra efforts for sincere students and guide them whenever possible.

Labs:

• Almost all labs do not have a sufficient number of apparatus which leads to students performing experiments in groups.
• But still, the labs are pretty much sufficient and enough to clear your basic idea about the subject.
• Computer Labs lack modern softwares such as Aspen, ChemCAD, etc. but recently they have started introducing FLUENT and COMSOL, MATLAB, and AUTOCAD.

Research Facility:

• You won’t see much research happening here due to a lack of infrastructure.
• The project lab is not very well equipped but if want do some project you are guided by the faculty.

Placements:

• Companies like Linde, Phillips Carbon Black Ltd., Haldia Petrochemicals, and Voith Paper recruit regularly.
• There is a good aura for someone who’s aspiring to crack GATE to get into some PSU and also, who wants to pursue higher studies both in India as well as abroad.

Ultimately it totally depends on you and how you use the resources provided to you for your benefit and how you seize the opportunities which come to you. 

The cutoff varies from year to year. It is highlighted in the following data:

Cutoffs also depend on the streams you want to pursue.

Here are the cutoff trends for CSE at Heritage Institute of Technology.

One of my friends got admission to CSE at Heritage in 2017. He got something like 72 to 74 marks in WBJEE 2017 and he got a rank of 5975.

So, scoring 80 to 84 marks will be enough for you to get the CSE branch of the Heritage Institute of Technology. But the cutoff marks always depend on the toughness of the paper and the quality of the batch appearing for WBJEE.

You can check the complete merit list on site for more details.

Heritage Institute of Technology (HIT) is one of the best engineering colleges among all the affiliated colleges with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology. The courses have NAAC and NBA accreditation and are AICTE approved. It is also recognized among the national engineering institutes with 154th NIRF Ranking for Engineering 2020.

The institute witnessed a 100% placement record during the last few years. Most of the students have bagged packages from more than one company. The CSE, ECE, and IT branches have an edge over the other branches in the institute.

The placements statistics (overall) are below:

Usually, grabbing the package in a broader bracket is a cumbersome task. Overall, HIT is the best among all the colleges of any other WBUT.

The fee structure for B.Tech students of Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata is given below for your reference.

• Tuition fee (per semester) – INR 44,000 (1st and 2nd semester), INR 45,100 (3rd and 4th semester), INR 46,200 (5th and 6th semester), and INR 47,300 (7th and 8th semester)
• Admission fee (one-time fee) – INR 5,000
• Library fee (one-time fee) – INR 6,000
• Students’ welfare and sports & games fee (one-time fee) – INR 4,000
• Caution deposit (one-time fee and refundable) – INR 10,000
• University students’ development fee (INR 500 paid yearly to MAKAUT) – INR 2,200 (one-time fee)
• Admission kit (one-time fee) – INR 1,000

Thus the total fee amounts to INR 72,200 when you take admission. Since you would have paid INR 20,000 during counseling, you need to pay an additional amount of INR 52,200 after taking the admission. There is a tuition fee waiver scheme implemented by the college according to which you need not pay the tuition fee. In that case, the fee is INR 28,200 and thus you will need to pay only INR 8,200 after taking admission.

The hostel fee is an additional INR 4,500 per month including the mess if you want to take this facility.

Heritage is a very good institute if pursuing CSE is your goal. If we talk about the ranking of the private institutes in West Bengal, then IEM (Institute of Engineering and Management) is the best in the state, followed by Heritage Institute of Technology. Techno India Salt Lake is third in the ranking.

• Heritage Institute of Technology will give you a lot of opportunities. 
• The coders in the institute can compete with some of the best in the country. 
• The environment of the place is also very good. 
• It is superior in terms of management, labs, infrastructure, faculty, labs, etc.

The companies that visit the institute are Microsoft, Amazon, Intel, Capgemini, Oracle, etc. TCS is the biggest recruiter of students graduating from Heritage.