Life @ Hindustan College of Science and Technology - HCST - Mathura (Uttar Pradesh)

The Hindustan College of Science & Technology is located on a vast 34 acre campus with a built up area of 100,000 m2. It has over 60 state of the art laboratories. The high tech computer department contains 1200 nodes and high-speed internet facility, with over 5000 connections all over the campus. Video Conferencing is made possible across all of the SGI colleges along with Sharda University. This enables live telecasting of lectures across all campuses, VC technology training and remote T&P interviews. Classrooms come with state of the art technology embedded into them. Moreover, HCST has a Learning Management System, which facilitates sharing of notes, submission of assignments online, and discuss academic topics. Library is present in both physical and digital forms. The former type hosts 120,000+ books, 533 journals and over 1872 CD/Video content. Old projects of students are also cataloged for reference requirements of present ones. Over 20 local and national newspapers are subscribed to as well. The digital library matches the physical one in resource richness and adds access to databases like DELNET, EBSCO, etc..  In addition, cafeterias dot the campus everywhere along with vending machines. They also provide healthy, fresh and hygienic food to hostel dwellers. The hostels can house 619 boys and 281 girls separately, providing all the modern amenities. Healthcare is handled by daily and weekly based doctor visits, with a dispensary and ambulance with first aid on call. Local hospital tie up is in place. Sports activities are encouraged and all the necessary infrastructure to develop a student’s ability in any sport is available. Transport is handled by a fleet of buses between college and Agra/Mathura. Various clubs and year-round events mark campus life too.