Well, it depends on who you're comparing it to. If you're comparing it to IITs and IISERs, of course not. If you're talking about public universities, I'll give it a hesitant yes. Let's talk about why. Talking about public universities I'll talk about DU with the present CBCS curriculum and their coursework is pretty great but the thing is, at the undergraduate level, you do not have much contact with the overarching Delhi University, which has the top researchers that are associated with the university.
Depending on the college you're in, the faculty members may not even have as much research experience. The edge that DU gets is that
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Well, it depends on who you're comparing it to. If you're comparing it to IITs and IISERs, of course not. If you're talking about public universities, I'll give it a hesitant yes. Let's talk about why. Talking about public universities I'll talk about DU with the present CBCS curriculum and their coursework is pretty great but the thing is, at the undergraduate level, you do not have much contact with the overarching Delhi University, which has the top researchers that are associated with the university.
Depending on the college you're in, the faculty members may not even have as much research experience. The edge that DU gets is that it teaches more mathematics and computational skills to its physics students than amity does. However DU does not mandate its students to do research work at the undergraduate level. Top colleges might encourage research but it is not made mandatory by the university in its curriculum. In Amity University you'll be expected to do research work thrice throughout the degree and your research will be put through plagiarism check. Therefore, regardless of how rigorous your research work is, it cannot be a copy paste, even reviews of existing literature will have to be original. In Amity University, you'll be allotted credits for research, 1 credit for research during the summer vacation after first year, 2 credits for research during the summer vacation after second year, and 6 credits for research during the final semester. In all of the above you'll be supervised by a faculty member.
You're free to go for internships outside amity during the summer vacations too. While most faculty members will give you the freedom to do the research work that interests you, I highly suggest that you do research on topics that your faculty member suggests to you, and if you like it, stick with it, such that you can GET a unique research specialisation by the end of your degree. Of course, before you embark on such an endeavour I suggest you check the faculty members and their specialisations in the faculty list of AIAS and the physics department is a very big department in terms of number of faculty members, so there's a decent amount of diversity to be found in terms of specialisations of the faculty members, though most are in applied physics.
Also, the Kajita institute of fundamental physics might become a reality soon enough, which will increase the diversity of research in the department. There's a saying that everybody at Amity learn.
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