So i am writing this answer three years after graduating from SRM University, Ramapuram Campus. Mind it my answer would be in respect of IT/CS branch
Firstly, some positive stuffs. Cultural diversity, labs, placements all these are good you get enough of everything. Lots of companies visit the campus specially for IT/CS branch and one can get proper opportunities to try out their skills and luck in big companies even the likes of Microsoft and Google.
But what matters is what they teach and what you take away after four years of college life. My answer ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
They follow a syllabus i don’t know of which generation it has nothing to do with what actually is in demand and what is required from a professional software engineer.
Computer labs have topics like java beans, socket programming and basic coding problems like prime number, Fibonacci series etc and am talking about second & third year. So i basically did nothing similar to what i am doing today as a dot net developer.
In final year we were asked to write programs in java to find area of circle and so on. Just imagine anyone who has opted for IT/CS in engineering would have basically done this in his school life.
Moving on to the projects. You cannot learn any coding language without implementing it in a real world project. We hoped that we might end up learning something in our project eventually but in SRM you cannot do your own project. We were a team of 4 member, each one of us paid 5K and we were asked to buy a already implemented project from a list of projects given to us yes BUY
So what was our contribution in our final year project?. We had to go to the guys who built it, ask few things, how it works, what it does this and that, make a presentation and present it to our faculty who knew everyone paid for it but behaved as if we did it on our own humiliating us by asking question no one could answer as we never ever worked on it. My project never even worked and we paid 20K for it.
Talking little about the exams. Try scoring good marks in first year which will help you a lot throughout your college life. No matter how good or bad answer you write in exams the examiner will give you marks on basis of what you scored last time. So once a nine pointer mostly always a nine pointer. Relax, enjoy write crap answers or even any answer to any question and the result will be same you will get something close to what you got lost time. (Ask this from any one who has passed out from SRM)