NIILM CMS

I have always wondered why someone ends up so bad. It took me long time to figure this out. Though it was late before I could fix it or do anything about it and yes it came at a huge expense, but I am glad that i could at least figure it out correctly. The point is making right choices at the right time. If you make one wrong choice your future is doomed. The funniest part is you know that you have a wrong choice but you can’t help it out. However, nothing much can be done once the trigger is pressed. Whatever you want to do, you might do or you would like to do have to be done before the trigger is pressed. 

With lots of hope, ambitions, aspirations many students spend a lot of their family income on MBA education only to figure out, it’s all going to be futile regardless of whatever approach they make. I am going to talk about one such B school- NIILM CMS, where i come from. I took admission last year and right now 2011-13 Batch. When i was in the process of deciding the B School where I would spend my two precious year, i opted for NIILM CMS among the other choices i had. The funniest part is that i came across very negative comments and feedback about the college and its administration on the Google. If you search on Google you will find a blog named NIILM CMS REALITY. It lists down all the stuff that you should know about this college. Anyone in his right sense of mind would not take admission into such a B school after knowing all the real stuff. I say it real because being in the college now i have come to know much real picture of this college. The one that was painted in reality blog was just a piece of it.

If you came to know about this college as one that ranks among the IIM’S and in some cases above them then you should thank the person who coined advertising, because no way on this earth this college would come to be known through its real merit. Why? Reason is Simple, it does not have one. The college spends a huge amount on the advertising. They make several promises and give you nothing.

Location

The college says it is in Delhi. My dear friend it’s not in Delhi its greater Noida. oh, i’m sorry its in one of the worst and remotest villages of greater noida to be precise. The situation here is so pathetic and upto the entire 10-15 km radius of this college you would not find a single public transport. If you get stucked here somewhere, you are stucked for ever!!! Believe it or not and start praying to god that at least you don’t get screwed up by local gujjars. The college says that there would be developments in the area in the coming future. Well i don’t see any future coming in the next 10-15 years. Moreover why should someone pay 10 lakhs for something which is going to happen 15- 20 years down the line.

Admission procedure

Even the admission procedure is flawed. This i came to know from some of my seniors and super seniors that it’s only papers that this college maintains a so called admission procedure. This college only believes in “money as a true talent”. If you have it you stand higher than those who score 90 percentile or more in CAT. Real thing it does not matter even if have not appeared for any competitive exams like CAT, MAT, SNAP etc you can easily get admission into this college provided you pay 2-3 lakhs over and above what usual candidates are supposed to pay. Don’t get settled down with that. It also came to news that most of the admissions last year and the year before were made by dropping the fees by 2-3 lakhs on a personal basis. This was done as most of the students being apprehensive about the college were not willing to take admission into the college. This goes on every year to and fro like a pendulum swinging in vaccum destined to stop never.

Infrastructure

Let’s talk about the infrastructure. Anyone and everyone from outside taking a look at the college would definitely say that it’s something under construction but not an MBA college. Funniest thing being it’s difficult to figure out for a common man the route to this so called prestigious b school. The guests who occasionally come to this college have lost their way and went their way back after going through the mess. 

Library and reading materials

Though the library seems to be decent enough, but there are limited no of copies of text’s in demand. The text books and other reading stuff being provided by the college for which you seemingly pay around 30,000 per year is mess. They provide you with the Xerox copies of the reading text materials (obviously because that works as a subsidy for them) that too in very tiny format very difficult to read or interpret from it. I suggest they also need to provide microscope from the next fall as well. “Anyways you don’t read, this way you’ll end up wasting less”. These are the words of professors of this institute verbatim. The computer lab is equipped with dell desktops but the worst part is that network connection in and around the campus area is pathetic. It takes 10-15 minutes to open a simple webpage and sometime even longer.

You also got to pay premium price for everything right from a plain A4 sheet to getting a Xerox everything is hiked by 50%-100% compared to the rates in the city.

Cafeteria

Cafeteria seems like a Dhaba been run by some localities’ and yes this is a premium, though not in the terms of service you get but yes you guessed it right it’s in terms of price you pay. You will end up paying 20-30% higher than something which you can get in the city.

And since this place seems like a part of 10^th century you won’t find any place nearby the institution even to get fresh water. So the only choice left out to you is this b school’s dhaba. Oh I’m sorry cafeteria. The administration knows that that’s why they play with it and seemingly end up making some extra money for themselves.

Bus service

I know you might have been told to you that the bus service is free of charge. Well of course it was until last year. The college has got the bus facility for which the college charges a monthly fees of Rs 400/-. The college program office head personnel (Sweet poison) say the “college didn’t get enough admissions this year so we hope we might recover by doing this”. These are her words verbatim. I got to learn this from my seniors. That’s a cool logic I guess and possibly the best practical teaching imparted ever. 

Hostel & mess

Hostels facilities are pathetic. Food here sucks and requires immediate attention of the moderators. I know this as I am staying in the hostel itself. In the beginning 2-3 days it seemed like acceptable but as the time passed we got to see and feel the real taste and color. We have reported this to both the warden and college administration but nothing seems to work. we have even looked for an option of moving out of this place and stay of our own but both the college and hostel administration says they can’t return our payments for hostel and we are left with only choice of moving next year. See it’s all about the money. These people are crazy. We are forced to eat this food. The food to which Some adapt, some fall sick and keep recovering and some die. 

Faculties and administration

A great place is difficult to exist without great people. The same is true with this b school. The NIILM-CMS boast itself of having a good quality faculties and placement officers. Let’s see how far is this true.

Actions speak louder than the words. This is something that most of the faculty of this institution has to understand. They say they come from brains like IIM’S, FMS, XLRI, IIT’S and the list goes on and on. If this were to be true then why do they keep struggling with some simple concepts in the classrooms? Why do they skip most of the classes and leave the students of their own. I don’t see that in their behaviour. Rather faculties here could be find smoking inside the campus. Would you like to hear from the person not to smoke when he himself smokes a lot? Well I won’t if i smoked.