Speaking from Chemical engineering point of view. Yes, the quality is deteriorating. The faculty don’t do justice to the subjects they take. Research is given no importance whatsoever ever ( hardly one or two papers published per year in UGC indexed journals). The infra for research is horrible here. The very basic apparatus like pippets, test tubes etc are broken. Equipments like Spectrophotometer dont work.
Placements have been dropping year by year. The placement in 2019 was apprapproximately 25% of the full batch for CHE with hardly one or two core companies coming in. The placement dean, a chemical engineering prof, is a lunatic. He forces chemical engineers to sit for jobs coming from Infosys, Accenture, cognizant’s of the worlds just to improve placement stats.
If only the students are given proper guidance right from 2nd year onwards, will the output in research and core placements go up. The department should look at leveraging the alumni network and involve external experts as well. Knowing what the emerging trends are is very important. With that being said, they dont take students for proper industrial visits.