As far as i know, you can only read the data from file in row wise, there is not any mechanism to read the file vertically. But i have a solution for it, read the whole file, You can create a array of students and initialize it with default constructor and then set the data while reading downwards row wise.

try {
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("file.csv"));

        // Reading first line..
        String[] names = reader.readLine().split(",");
        // Execpt 'names' there are total 4 students, A,B,C,D.
        int totalStudents = names.length - 1;
        StudentVO[] array = new StudentVO[totalStudents];
        // Initialize all students with default constructor.
        for(int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
            array[i] = new StudentVO();
        }

        //////////////
        // Start reading other data and setting up on objects..
        // Line 2..
        String[] joinDates = reader.readLine().split(",");
        // i = 0 gives us the string 'joinDates' which is in the first column.
        // so we have to skip it and start it from i = 1
        for(int i = 1; i < joinDates.length; i++) {
            // setting the objects data..
            array[i - 1].setJoinDate(joinDates[i]); 
        }

        // And keep on doing this until SecondLang_Marks..

        reader.close();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

This is the best way to do it for this solution according to the me.

JSefa allow you to annotate Java classes that can be used in a serialization and de-serialization process. The tutorial demonstrates how this works with the CsvIOFactory class.

(From the tutorial) Annotating a bean is as simple as specifying the locations of the items in the list of values, and if necessary, you'll need to specify the conversion format:

@CsvDataType()
public class Person {
    @CsvField(pos = 1)
    String name;

    @CsvField(pos = 2, format = "dd.MM.yyyy")
    Date   birthDate;
}

One of the simplest ways to read and serialize data is by using the Jackson library. It also has an extension for CSV, you can find the wiki here

Let's say you have a Pojo like this:

@JsonPropertyOrder({ "name", "surname", "shoesize", "gender" })
public class Person {

    public String name;
    public String surname;
    public int shoesize;
    public String gender;

}

And a CSV like this:

Tom,Tommy,32,m
Anna,Anny,27,f

Then reading it is done like so:

MappingIterator<Person> personIter = new CsvMapper().readerWithTypedSchemaFor(Person.class).readValues(csvFile);
List<Person> people = personIter.readAll();

This is simple enough for my taste, basically all you need to do is add the column order in your CSV file using the @JsonPropertyOrder annotation and then just read the file using the above 2 lines.