GNIIT Course---------Is it worth?

[dheeraj_kumar]

Hi, I got a seat for BE CSE in a good college under anna university in management quota. its got good placement and everything. Do I need to go for GNIIT Software Engineering? is it worth it? if so, how will it be useful for me? Anyone who has attended GNIIT plz reply.

[TechGuru#1]

NIIT= NOT INTERESTED IN TEACHING!
Now,choose ur course.

[chota_rod_waala]

lolmateylol

[magnet]

arra if u study yourself all the stuff..than its worth...spendin a lac...also through niit...will land u a job in there office as sir.......for 6 months u ask for pay..u will get one tight kick

[reddragon]

look look look better u do self study to get good software knowledge...I know about NIIT much because my sister is working there as a trainer , and she is not a technical person ........ I am telling u the truth none of these caoching centers will give u job ..............the trainers who r teaching there r all polyTech or Bsc Msc ...and they feel frighten to teach students who r BE . dont go there . they will give u a general idea but not much .

[reddragon]

I forgot to tell u a good point >>

although it takes much amount of money and training is not that much good and they will not provide u job but the TUTORIAL BOOKS WHICH NIIT PROVIDE ARE VERY VERY GOOD....IT IS REALLY superb . so try to get the NIIT tech books and study yourself . look for someone who is studying in NIIT and if possible try get from them . I think some NIIT books r available in the bookshops also , my sister have some of them . basically they ( the NIIT writers ) compiled all the good things from all the good books .thats why it si good . and remember dont study in NIIT save that money for your 4 wheelar..........after doing BE+niit if u becomes a jobless person u will be in EXTREME FRASTRUUU . so dont make that mistake . dont go to NIIT .

[rajkumar_personal]

Hey...........
Now this is where I have to step in .....

I was a student at NIIT Camac Street in Kolkata.

I got the best of teachers that were ever so helpful and provided with the right doses of knowledge and practical 2 me.

They have helped me in all the possible ways that they could.

And don't think that I went in for a 3 month course......

I have studied there for 7 years and I was never disappointed even a single minute.
What the hell do you ppl mean by saying that NIIT faculty and the Company is Not Interested in teaching !!
U have not been to the right place mate or else you might not have been in the good hands of the good teachers that are there in NIIT.

Only those of you who have been in company of teachers that you love dearly will understand my feelings for the teachers that have taught me in NIIT.

I might never have been what I am had I not joined NIIT.
I am what I am because of all the Great Teachers at NIIT camac st. that have brought me up to this level.

[chota_rod_waala]

watever u read in 7 years i can read it in 1 month online

then watz the use of niit

tanxx..

[cool_dude_prav]

hmm... listen to this... I too did GNIIT for 2 sems...

so it all depends on various factors...

1. Are you ready to spend nearly a lakh.
2. Are you ready to spend about 3 hours a day at NIIT or doing NIIT-work(aka home work)?
3. Are you willing to do all excercises and not just depend on the faculty?

See, things are like this. 2 out of 5 faculties are good. But many of them dont have info as updated as us, coz we guys spend a lot of time in discussions, so be ready to hear even an intelligent fac. to say that "After ASP, JSP is the most widely used scripting language..." which is 200% wrong

Then, dont wait for the faculty to ask u to do the back excercises of each lesson. Do them if u want to get a good and deep insight into the language, and also u have to read like u do in other subjects, coz tests are totally bookish and not testing ur proggie skills...
If u r interested, u must go after the fac. to get ur doubts solved, even if u get help online,as that will create a good impression - which is a must.

dont listen to others when they say u can learn something on ur own - which I have found to be near to impossible... I started learning PHP on my own for many months and I still have not gone past the intro. pages *blushes*

u r really interested in IT, then GNIIT is truly a really plus point. and one last thing is join in the branch ONLY AFTER enquiring about the status of the center to some existing students... For one, Mylapore is regarded among top 2 in chennai...

for more details, u can PM me and I will give yea my contact no. Since u r in chennai, u can call me up if u so require...

Cheers,
Praveen.
PS: Sorry for the loooooong post

[TechGuru#1]

U Both^^ seem to be 2 REAL damm Lucky Guys!!!
though the case in discussion seems Just the opposite for 99.98 of the cases, the .2% being the abv 2 happy souls

As for me,I am yet to make a personal contact with 1 TRULY SATISFIED "NIIT"an who GOT His/her WORTH!

Anyway,thanks for sharing some unique positive GNIIT experiences on ocassions.It fells oddly GOOD!

[alienspiesu]

hey guys NIIT's not tat bad for me too..
i had joined up the C language course thre..
tho the normal batch had a fast track course.. my sir went slow track n wud explain me evrythng neat n tidy n even taught me C proprly on linux whereas @ NIIT classrooms they never had to work in linux.. so tat sir was extrmemly helpful to me as v had C on linux in our colg..
so it depends on the faculty n the gud ppl thre..
try enquirin a lot b4 u join/~~

[TechGuru#1]

Originally Posted by alienspiesu

........
so it depends on the faculty.....
................

So there goes it.......mayb that's the REAL VALID Point!

[magnet]

niit depends on area.......here in mumbai(chembur)...they took students money and closed there centres........also at one centre they suddenly closed and told students to go to other place which is ard 10km away without informing.......

those who survived frm niit r luky...or else they r jus money making machine

[suave_guy]

NIIT and other silimilar institutions are a total cr@p if you ask me...no job placement creditibility and the faculty is just average...most of the facutly members are computer students who could not get any job elsewhere...

though i wud say that its good for short term 3 months or 2 months course during summer vacations and thus can be helpful to learn new software in a short duration...but graduating and spenfing lots of money on NIIT is worthless...

ENjoy...

[only_moin]

gist: know little about comps- will gniit course make me good enough to make it through mca enterance exam in a year?

hi,
i am a grad, Bsc, and intend want to get into MCA, next year. i know very little about computers. i am thinking - if i take one of the gniit offered courses for a year will i be good enough to crack the enterance exams for mca by next year. my maths is good, although i lost the Honours in part1 bsc exam. i live in calcutta. i read a thread here somewhere that their center at camac st is quite good. plz help me, i really wanna do mca.

thanks

Only_moin
Calcutta

[eagle_y2j]

Hey frnd does NIIT walle parate bhi hai kya.......................... here at my city they don't. Wat is condition there at kolkata ?

i live in calcutta

man r u still struck at calcutta......................(i heared tat now we call it kolkata )

[Vishal Gupta]

Don't know will GNIIT help in ur MCA entrance exam but I'm sure that it'll help a lot in ur whole MCA course.

I'm doing MCA from IGNOU and there is no entrance Exam, thats why I dont know about entrance exam! But doing some computer course like GNIIT helps a lot in MCA coz I hv seen many students who didnt know nething (or knew a little) about computers having troubles...

I too did DNIIT course from IGNOU and it was good...

[gary4gar]

is a GNIIT degree accepted by industry ppl as a standalone degree??

[Vishal Gupta]

Yes!

[cool_dude_prav]

Originally Posted by gary4gar

is a GNIIT degree accepted by industry ppl as a standalone degree??

yes as long as u have a graduate degree to accompany...

[xenkatesh]

My Personal advice like these Centers... if ur planning do join some training centers like these... Better ask some of the ppl who is currently learning there.. atlest listen to 10 ppl... then come to a conclusion.. weather to join or not... as far as i know GNIIT is worthless... waste of money...

[gary4gar]

i will keep a close watch on this thread for more responses

[amit_at_stg]

these institutes performance fully depends on their faculty, you cant say for how long will there be a good faculty in an institute.

[suave_guy]

see if thats a scenario than i wud suggest that along with ur garduation pursue doeacc 'A' level which has much better recognition and creditibility than GNIIT...moreover if in case one has done 'A' Level than he might be able to do mca in 2 yrs instead of 3 yrs...

i'm going to give my final two exams this july for 'A' level and also the project...after this my 'A' level will be finished....

now generally mca is for 3 yrs but since i've 'A' level and i'm already a graduate so 1 year will be exempted for my mca....i've already got admission in mba so i'm gonna puruse mba full time which is for two years and along with that i'm gonna do mca via distance learning which will also be for 2 yrs thx to doeacc 'A' level otherwise it wud have taken 1 extra year to complete my mca...now after 2 yrs i'll be ready to take on the corporate world armed with two master degrees....

and 'A' level(its equivalent to PGDCA) is more comprehensive than GNIIT...just make sure that while doing ur grad pursue 'A' level rt from the first year and by the time u've finished ur grad, ur A level will also be finished i.e. within 3 yrs and moreover 'part time' A level wont exert any pressure on ur grad studies coz u'll just have to give two exams every six months and u just have to attend classes for arnd 2 hrs every alternate days(i dint even attended classes)...or maybe on weekends

just make sure that u pursue doeacc A level from a good institution

hope this advice helps u...

ENjoy...

[drgrudge]

OK Picture this:

1. You spend 4 lac+ on this GNIIT course.
2. You either go to the course for learning the things or just go for the sake of a damn job after you're done.
3. You *might* get placed in some IT company. In Chennai, they placed students at Ramco Systems (yes, that cement company). The company is running in loss as far as I've heard.
4. So you earn around 8k (or even less) during the "training". I can't imagine for long they'll train you, does any training take more than 2-3 months? (most of the IT Companies take only 1-2 months for training)
5. You're gonna give NIIT 50% of what you earn for 6 months. ( I dunno the exact figure)
6. So if you earn 8k during "training", then you'll be giving 24k to NIIT and that's apart from the 4L that you already paid them.

Do you want all this? You wanna work in a company that's running in loss. Working for a small (and upcoming) company is different from working in a company that's running in loss.


Instead apply to IT companies on your own. They'll call you for Tests+GD+PI. If you're good, they'll take you in.


@suave_guy,
Where are you gonna study your MBA/PGDBM? I thought you already did your MCA! How much will you study man? Wow, good going!!

[suave_guy]

i'll be doing mba from IILM, gurgaon....

no u might be confused, i'm pursuing A level and not mca, will start mca this year after clearing my A level exams....

ENjoy...

[Najesh]

Well it straightly depends on ,what kind of student we r,for me ,i believe that they r good 2 teach d basics,and i don't require any basic course.

[damnthenet]

Originally Posted by drgrudge

OK Picture this:

1. You spend 4 lac+ on this GNIIT course.

As far as I know, the GNIIT course for a field costs only around a lakh.

[coolendra]

Originally Posted by drgrudge

OK Picture this:

1. You spend 4 lac+ on this GNIIT course.
2. You either go to the course for learning the things or just go for the sake of a damn job after you're done.
3. You *might* get placed in some IT company. In Chennai, they placed students at Ramco Systems (yes, that cement company). The company is running in loss as far as I've heard.
4. So you earn around 8k (or even less) during the "training". I can't imagine for long they'll train you, does any training take more than 2-3 months? (most of the IT Companies take only 1-2 months for training)
5. You're gonna give NIIT 50% of what you earn for 6 months. ( I dunno the exact figure)
6. So if you earn 8k during "training", then you'll be giving 24k to NIIT and that's apart from the 4L that you already paid them.

hey a guy doing GNIIT in software engg. pays them 84000+12.2 % tax.. that comes around a lakh... so thats 1 thing....

also i hav seeen guys gettin 18000 as their first pay (but thats a exception) usually one gets around 10000 as startin salary ...

but i wud suggest dont go for their placement...
do ur GNIIT & apply on ur own !!!

wat say ?????????

[harmax]

i wud not recommend GNIIT,rather go for modular courses,and certifications which will giv u lot more value for ur money, for eg join for java and get sun certification,niit will help u for tat,by the way as many people above hav said the material they giv at niit is excellent,but most often the staff is ill informed and and lab support sux