Edited by Meenakshi Rajeev
Note: T5E’s Exit Survey 2022 was conducted in June to study graduating students’ perspectives of life at IIT Madras. The survey had 341 responses across the entire graduating class of 2022, nearly 60% of the survey respondents being UG students (B.Tech + DD+ MA) while the rest were PG students (MSc + MTech + MBA + Ph.D. + MS).
The survey explored various aspects of the essence of a student at insti, such as Lifestyle, Personal Life, Career, Decision Making, Academics, Extracurriculars, and Opinion.
This article focuses specifically on Personal life, opinions on some of insti’s aspects, and the relationships that they’ve been into:
Gender and demographics
The gender ratio of females to males is 1:3, and the percentage of females has increased by 10%, analogous to last year.
Most respondents (around 60%) were from metros or cities. The share from towns and villages is still around 11% from the previous year.
Opposite gender vs. Background
It is observed that nearly 40% of the respondents who grew up in metropolitan cities already knew many people of the opposite gender, either as acquaintances or close friends. This number gradually dropped to 26% for the city, 15% for the town, and 8% for village grown-ups.
Career path ahead…
Over 60% of the respondents who wish to pursue Civil/Government services are from towns. Metropolitan city dwellers dominate higher studies with 50% in the Core sector and 45% in the non-core sector.
Of the respondents who wish to pursue a job in the core sector, 37% are from the city.
Decision-making vs. Friend circle
Friends often influence people’s decision-making process. Only 11% of the respondents whose majority of the friend circle is from Insti got clarity about the options available to them in terms of career path right before the placements.
This number incremented to 30% for those whose friend circle in Insti is smaller than that of their hometown.
Nature and Behaviour
Most respondents (around 55%) describe themselves to be ambiverts. Around 30% identify themselves as introverts.
A sizable group(around 60%) of people’s overall personalities appear to have been impacted by insti life and mainly in a positive way.
About 40% of respondents surveyed above say that most of their friends are from institutions of higher learning. Barely 16 percent of respondents say they have more pals in their hometown.
Professors and Pandemic
Most (about 56 percent) of the respondents engaged with the professors, either in-class or outside of class time.
A little over 40% of those surveyed acknowledged paying attention in class but not interacting with the professors.
Very few respondents admitted that they ignored the class and were unaware of the prof’s name.
Professors’ impact on CG
There’s a highly evident correlation between the CGPA and what terms you are on with the professors. The average CGPA of the respondents who are in touch regularly with their Profs even after the classes is 8.9; this number keeps dropping, and for the bottom fraction comprising those who don’t even know the prof’s name correctly (pun intended) is 7.9.
Opposite gender and Relationships
Despite the gender ratio being 3:1 women to men, only a little over 35% of respondents (about the same as last year) reported having friends of the other gender with whom they could communicate amicably and without apprehensions.
About one-third of the respondents showed gender variety in their social circles, to which insti’s PORs and other similar avenues have been pivotal.
Surprisingly, 5% of respondents reported having no interaction with peers of the other gender.
Insti has never had any dearth of romance, and almost everyone has options to try their luck at it, regardless of whether it is successful or otherwise. This is demonstrated by the fact that almost 40% of respondents had been in a relationship during their time at Insti, either with a peer, junior or senior or with someone not directly associated with Insti.
Out of the 40%, the majority had only been in one relationship throughout their time in college. This could be the case given that most respondents (about 75 percent) reported having trouble getting back on track, concentrating on work, or feeling upset or disoriented for a few weeks after their split. The effort and time that goes into healing often make people think twice before engaging in a new relationship.
Opinion
Administration and Hostel life
The mean rating received for the hostel rooms from the respondents is 3.3 out of 5.
Regarding rating the admin in terms of their efficiency in handling the junta’s mental health in the online semesters, the average rating of 5 is 2.3.
Around 67% of the respondents developed social/interpersonal skills during their stay in the college. 70% have explored academic and research opportunities during their stay. 42% have enhanced their skills in extracurriculars that interest them.
Hostel rivalries often get heated with the enthu of the junta; however, during their stay, the mean rating received for the trend of hostel culture and inter-hostel rivalries is 2.6 out of 5.
Unforgettable thing about insti
We’ve collected subjective answers from the respondents, and here are the top picks:
“Late night tea at Ramu”
“Night outs playing bridge.”
“Mysore Pak, after getting announced as NIRF 1.”
“To wrongly quote Odin Borson – “Insti is not just the place, it is the people, the deers and of course, the monkeys too :P.”
“The feeling of cycling from the mess to CRC at 7:50 am (“rush hour”) on a weekday during my freshie year. (Online sem batches won’t know this feeling)”
One thing you will not cherish in insti
We’ve collected subjective answers from the respondents, and here are the top picks:
“Mess food on particular days can kill your mood for the rest of the day.”
“Students are not allowed to go to rooftops.”
“People Rg-ing. Strict professors who want their ego stroked.”
“Krishna Gate closure”
“The small number of girls and the lack of opportunities to interact with the opposite sex.”
“Cut-throat competition for the dumbest of things.”
One word about Insti:
We’ve collected subjective answers from the respondents, and here are the top picks:
“Bitter-sweet”
“Macrocosm”
“YOLO”
“Unfathomable”
“Green campus with draught thoughts”
“Home away from home”
Conclusion:
The final report of T5E’s exit survey produced some interesting insights into the personal opinions and relationships of the graduating batch of 2022. Here’s a quick summary of the data the team collected and analyzed:
- The gender ratio of males to females is observed to be 3:1, and the percentage of females has increased by 10%, analogous to last year.
- Nearly 40% of the respondents who grew up in metropolitan cities know many people of the opposite gender, either acquaintances or close friends. This number gradually dropped to 26% for the city, 15% for the town, and 8% for village grown-ups.
- Over 60% of the respondents who wish to pursue Civil/Government services are from town.
- Most respondents (around 55%) describe themselves as ambiverts. Around 30% identify themselves as introverts.
- The average CGPA of the respondents who are in touch regularly with their Profs even after the classes is 8.9; this number keeps dropping, and for the ones who are unaware of even the prof’s name correctly (pun intended) is 7.9.
- 5% of respondents reported having no interaction with peers of the other gender.
- Around 67% of the respondents developed social/interpersonal skills during their stay in the college.
Concluding our analysis, insti’s a mini biodiversity complex where everyone has customized starting points available to them to achieve something, their backgrounds are wide and varied, and their nature and behavior patterns inevitably get influenced by Insti culture during their stay. Friends and relationships influence each of our behavioral aspects. Insti life teaches people to make adjustments and celebrate achievements with equal zeal. That’s all from the opinion aspect. We wish the graduating students the best in their careers ahead!
