Bounded by Your Degree?

I am currently pursuing PGDBA course and I am in my 2nd semester at IIT Kharagpur. I graduated in Civil Engineering from the same college in 2018 and have come now to study Business Analytics.

I have a Mathematics course on Regression this semester. The same course has been taken by a 3rd year junior of my department (Civil) as an Additional Course. He aims to do a minor in Mathematics along with a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering.

I also have a Computer Science course here where the professor has not been able to take in more students as the seats for it are full. Many undergraduate 3rd year students from departments other than CS have taken this as an additional course which resulted in limiting seats for it.

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You see, students are now aware, and they understand that their education is not limited to the courses their department offers which was allotted on the basis of their JEE rank.

And that is a very important thing to note. Your career is not bound by your JEE rank now, or by the degree you get when you graduate. There are opportunities available that can enable you to apply for companies you dream of at the end of 4 years during placements. Institutes provide you with such opportunities where you can take any subject outside your department as an additional course if its slots do not clash with your department timetable.

Obviously, you would have to work harder in the college – you would have to clear a set of courses required to get a minor in your desired department which would mean perhaps 5-6 hours of classes extra every week every semester.

But that’s OK, work harder now than the ones who did it before IIT. Acknowledge the fact that you haven’t lost it if you got a poor JEE rank, and IITJEE is not everything nowadays.

So, there may be a case where you and your CS friend apply for the same company and both of you get selected or you do but he/she doesn’t during placements. Certainly possible, because in today’s world all that matters at the end is your skills, not your JEE rank or your degree

-Rajat Gupta,B.Tech(Civil)-IITKGP,Doing PGDBA from IIM+IIT+ISI