Our Graduation degrees have been jeopardized countless times in demand of unreasonable fee. No more!



Very recently the final year students of SRM university have been asked to pay the absurd amount of ₹1000 as “alumni fee”. When the students raised their voice to ask for justification for the above specified amount, a response was given to us which stated that the amount is being paid for,

Maintaining alumni website and social media pages

Maintaining alumni database

Publishing newsletters

Fostering alumni visits to campus

Donation, Lectures, sponsorship, mentoring, Internships and placements.

Forming national and international chapter

etc,

Now the question the students were left with was, when does this stop?

Just recently we were also asked to pay ₹200 for a data book that would contain the personal information of other students.

On top of that even in our final semester where we do not have any external examinations, we were made to pay more than ₹3000 (depending on the department), which is no less than the amount we were paying when we had around 7-8 examinations in previous semesters. And when students asked for the justification of that we were circulated with this particular split-up, which showed absurdly unjustified and unrealistic cost split, just for the sake of matching the amount mentioned.

Project work and viva voce: ₹300 / paper

Examination application form: ₹75

Grade Card: ₹100

Provisional Certificate: ₹500

Migration Certificate: ₹650

Consolidation Grade card: ₹500

Degree Certificate: ₹1000

This is a commonly reoccurring pattern of behavior that the students have seen time and time again. There are about 6000 Engineering students studying in one batch at a time. This amount of students is a result of various branches in the university, namely:

· Computer science and engineering

· Information Technology

· Software Engineering

· Chemical Engineering

· Mechanical Engineering

· Mechatronics Engineering

· Civil Engineering

· And many more.

Each department’s strength ranges from 250 to as high as 1000 students. Roughly calculating, this amount goes much higher than ₹60,00,000. The amount collected by the university is just flabbergasting.

It is a common pattern and should not just be a concern for final year students but for everyone else because if this continues to happen, such idiocracy is bound to happen to all other student too.

Every person with computer science background can realize that no website can cost this much to maintain or develop.

These fees namely, alumni and data book fee are meant to be optional and the compulsion simply makes no sense. The exam has to be reduced as well.



The university needs to understand that many of its students are studying on a student loan and other arrangements of sorts. It simply is enough and the students are no longer willing to oblige to the absurd threats that are given every time. We will take our much deserved degrees and not pay unnecessary fee on top of the tuition fee.