Location:
The college is pretty accessible by roadways as well as railways. The closest railway station is Mumbai Central (W Rly). Byculla is the closest railway station on the central railway, but its quite far, so western railway is preferred although central people have to change trains at Dadar. A number of buses ply close to the college.
Rank:
Generally the second preference after Govt. Dental College.
Infrastructure:
It had good infrastructure, much better to what you would expect of Government standards. Yet the building was freshly renovated owing to the Platinum jubilee celebrations. Once unnoticed by passersby, the present grand entrance makes many heads turn. People say that the corridors look like that of corporate offices. Also, new laboratory equipments have been brought in. Labs are recently renovated with actual dummies to work on for preclinical practice. Hostel facilities are available, the hostel is located at Mahalaxmi.
Fees:
Rs. 18,000/year
Faculty:
All professor are post graduates and a majority of them have studied in Nair so they know the college in and out. They are very efficient and you do not wish to mess with them. You just cannot fool them so respect them and life becomes easy. Even the sub staffs (who are generally called as Kaka) are helpful.
Hospitals affiliated:
Students are sent to the following hospitals:
Nair Dental Hospital which has abundant patients. One the hospitals getting maximum number of patients, you can expect to get plenty of practical experience and study a variety of different cases.
Crowd:
A saddening mixed crowd. But it would be a big mistake if you opt for medicine and expect a crowd better than this in your college. They just don’t go hand-in-hand. Most of them are from Mumbai as opposed to most other medical colleges where majority are hostelites from distant parts of the country. So that is an added advantage.
Canteen:
The Nair Dental college canteen is awful, gross, beastly dreadful, stinkingly substandard and unsatisfactorily unacceptable. I guess you get the point. You CAN’T eat there. So majority of the people (out of the small minority who do not get dabbas to college) go to the medical college canteen which is a stone’s throw away from here. And salute to those who do eat in dental college canteen!!
Hangouts:
With little free time during the day the most preferred and convenient places are the common rooms or the “8thFloor” where no professors come and you can practically do anything here, be it playing music or shouting at the top of your voice.
Around college there is Orchid City Centre, Café Coffee Day, Mc Donald’s at 10 minutes distance. Very little choice in a close proximity but being in South Mumbai itself gives one many options to hangout, but only after college.
Attendance:
75% in lectures. 80% in Practicals. They are very particular and strict about it. However, you will realize that it is not a difficult thing once you start getting used to it.
Festivals:
College week and annual day are the two times of the year when you get time off your routine schedule and can have a blast!! Both of them are held around Jan–Feb. Also sport activities are held all round the year and there is no sports festival as such.
Contact:
Nair Dental College,
A.L. Nair Road,
Mumbai Central,
Mumbai-400008.
Tel:022 2308 2714/15/16/17
Verdict:
No institution is perfect and Nair Hospital and Dental College is not an exception. Politics, constant deadlines, internal exams with no time to prepare for may at times make you feel really low but in the end it makes you a stronger confident person. There are many disadvantages but it’s the best you can get if you want to become an efficient dentist at the end of 5 years.
The college is pretty accessible by roadways as well as railways. The closest railway station is Mumbai Central (W Rly). Byculla is the closest railway station on the central railway, but its quite far, so western railway is preferred although central people have to change trains at Dadar. A number of buses ply close to the college.
Rank:
Generally the second preference after Govt. Dental College.
Infrastructure:
It had good infrastructure, much better to what you would expect of Government standards. Yet the building was freshly renovated owing to the Platinum jubilee celebrations. Once unnoticed by passersby, the present grand entrance makes many heads turn. People say that the corridors look like that of corporate offices. Also, new laboratory equipments have been brought in. Labs are recently renovated with actual dummies to work on for preclinical practice. Hostel facilities are available, the hostel is located at Mahalaxmi.
Fees:
Rs. 18,000/year
Faculty:
All professor are post graduates and a majority of them have studied in Nair so they know the college in and out. They are very efficient and you do not wish to mess with them. You just cannot fool them so respect them and life becomes easy. Even the sub staffs (who are generally called as Kaka) are helpful.
Hospitals affiliated:
Students are sent to the following hospitals:
Nair Dental Hospital which has abundant patients. One the hospitals getting maximum number of patients, you can expect to get plenty of practical experience and study a variety of different cases.
Crowd:
A saddening mixed crowd. But it would be a big mistake if you opt for medicine and expect a crowd better than this in your college. They just don’t go hand-in-hand. Most of them are from Mumbai as opposed to most other medical colleges where majority are hostelites from distant parts of the country. So that is an added advantage.
Canteen:
The Nair Dental college canteen is awful, gross, beastly dreadful, stinkingly substandard and unsatisfactorily unacceptable. I guess you get the point. You CAN’T eat there. So majority of the people (out of the small minority who do not get dabbas to college) go to the medical college canteen which is a stone’s throw away from here. And salute to those who do eat in dental college canteen!!
Hangouts:
With little free time during the day the most preferred and convenient places are the common rooms or the “8thFloor” where no professors come and you can practically do anything here, be it playing music or shouting at the top of your voice.
Around college there is Orchid City Centre, Café Coffee Day, Mc Donald’s at 10 minutes distance. Very little choice in a close proximity but being in South Mumbai itself gives one many options to hangout, but only after college.
Attendance:
75% in lectures. 80% in Practicals. They are very particular and strict about it. However, you will realize that it is not a difficult thing once you start getting used to it.
Festivals:
College week and annual day are the two times of the year when you get time off your routine schedule and can have a blast!! Both of them are held around Jan–Feb. Also sport activities are held all round the year and there is no sports festival as such.
Contact:
Nair Dental College,
A.L. Nair Road,
Mumbai Central,
Mumbai-400008.
Tel:022 2308 2714/15/16/17
Verdict:
No institution is perfect and Nair Hospital and Dental College is not an exception. Politics, constant deadlines, internal exams with no time to prepare for may at times make you feel really low but in the end it makes you a stronger confident person. There are many disadvantages but it’s the best you can get if you want to become an efficient dentist at the end of 5 years.