As your choice, of course, is different it’s difficult to choose one institute over the other. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur is one of the oldest NITs with a good reputation. According to the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2020 VNIT ranks at 18 among all the engineering colleges of India. The placement highlights of 2018-19 at VNIT Nagpur show 68 students from Electrical Engineering got placed. The average salary package offered in the placement was around 7 LPA, while the highest package offered to students was 22 LPA. Top recruiters from this institute include Microsoft, MindTree, Raymond, Nokia, Sulzer, Siemens, and Symantec, etc. 

Despite being a new IIT, Indian Institute Of Technology, Bhubaneswar is doing quite well both in academics and placement. According to NIRF Ranking, IIT Bhubaneswar is ranked at 26. The placement highlights from last year show 90% of students got a placement offer from this IIT. A total of 89 companies visited the campus for placement drive. The top recruiters were Amazon, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, KPMG, L&T, Deloitte, Directi, Reliance Industries, IBM, Tesco, Samsung, Apple Inc, Adobe, Tata Steel, Tata Power, Trident Group, UnitedHealth Group, etc. ISRO, DRDO, IOCL, HPCL, ONGC are the PSUs that also visited the campus for recruiting the students. The average CTC Offered was around 11.44 LPA, whereas 39 LPA was the highest CTC.

Both the institutes VNIT and IIT Bhubaneswar have their merits, so the decision comes down to your choice of course. So, first, choose which course you want to pursue and then choose the institute offering a better program for that specific course.

UIET Chandigarh is a public institute approved by AICTE and affiliated to Panjab University. Electrical and Electronics Engineering at UIET Chandigarh is a 4 year course which deals with the areas of Power and Energy, Machines to neutral networks and database management systems.

PEC Chandigarh is one the pioneer engineering colleges in Punjab. It is ranked 68th for BTech by NIRF 2020. It is deemed to be a university approved by AICTE. Metallurgy Engineering in PEC Chandigarh is a 4 year full time BTech course. It has an intake of 60 seats.

Tabulated below is a brief overview of both institutions:

Admission Requirements

• Students should have 60% in their 10+2 qualifying exam with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics is compulsory.
• The selection will be based on the JEE rank.

Placements

UIET Chandigarh

• 56 companies took part in the placement process.
• The highest package offered to the students was 16 LPA whereas the average salary was 5.62 LPA.
• The top recruiting companies for Electrical Engineering at UIET Chandigarh are KPMG, Mu Sigma, Infosys and Capgemini.

PEC Chandigarh

• The highest package offered to the students was 15 LPA while the average salary was 6.5 LPA.
• It witnessed an overall placement rate of 40%.
• The companies that visited PEC Chandigarh during their placement for Metallurgy Engineering are Hindustan Zinc and JSW Steel. 
• Placements of this department are poor compared to other departments.

Facilities 

UIET Chandigarh 

• The campus is 11 acres in area.
• The institute has 2 academic blocks including labs, offices, library, ATM and lecture halls.
• There are blocks for mechanical labs and workshops.
• It also has 2 separate hostels for boys and girls having a dining mess, individual washrooms and sporting facilities.

PEC University 

• With 146 acres, it provides facilities like Medical Facility and Graduate Research Project Award. 
• They have 6 hostels, 4 for boys and 2 for girls.
• They have a library consisting of 1,19,830 books.

Electrical Engineering has better scope of placements than Metallurgy Engineering. Choosing EE will be better for your career. 

As an institute, IIT Madras is much ahead of IIT Bhubaneswar, as it is one of the oldest and reputed IITs. But electrical engineering in IIT Bhubaneswar is quite good and offers many opportunities. The institute also has very impressive placement stats. In the year 2019, around 86% of students got placed from the Electrical engineering branch. The official average package for the batch 2017 as released by the institute (IIT Bhubaneswar) for Electrical Engineering was 8.5 LPA. A good number of core companies, software companies and PSU’s hire Electrical Engineers (EE) from IIT Bhubaneswar.

Also, Chemical engineering is a great branch with many prospects. Companies like O&G, Chemical Research firms- for both India & abroad visit regularly for placements. The non- core companies like Fin, MC. Techs are also open for Chemical Engineers. IITM offers decent placements, in 2019 there was 85.52% placement from duel degrees and the placement rate for Chemical Engineers was around 74%. The average CTC offered in IITM was 16 LPA.

IITM is good for the students who are interested in chemical engineering and would like to pursue MS/Ph.D. in the top universities. If you are looking for careers in research then chemical engineering provides ample opportunities. Getting a dual degree will also build a way for R&D roles in many companies such as ITC, Shell, HUL, etc. Also, the best part about going for chemical engineering is that it provides ample opportunities for people to prepare for non-core sectors as well.

So, choose the branch of your interest.

NIT Trichy offers a great learning experience, especially in CS. EE at IIT Dhanbad and IIT Bhubaneshwar is also decent and the placements are quite good and with either of the IITs, you would get that IIT tag. So, it actually boils down to your choice between an IIT and NIT and if you want to give preference to IITs. 

The average package for EE at NIT Trichy was around 6 LPA with a 97% placement rate for EE students. On the other hand, for IIT Dhanbad, the placement percentage was 76% with the average package of around 15.5 LPA. In IIT Bhubaneshwar, the average package for 2019 was around 11 LPA and the placement rate was around 86% from EE.

Although, the tag isn’t only something one should go after. NIT Trichy’s EE is excellent and the placements are equally great. Good infrastructure, excellent teachers, and a decent learning and developing environment are what one should seek, and thereby, NIT Trichy would be an excellent choice since IIT Dhanbad and IIT Bhubaneshwar are newer IITs. NIT Trichy, Warangal, Surathkal are better than most IITs.

So, it completely comes down to your personal preference.

IIT BHU, as well as IIT/ISM Dhanbad both, are the old institutes that were recently converted to IITs. So both have a prestigious status through IIT BHU performed better than the ISM in the 2020 NIRF Rankings- IIT BHU(11), and ISM(12). 

Talking about the branch, Electrical at IIT BHU includes only the core electrical subjects. Moreover, there are very few companies visiting for core electrical students. Although, the students can sit for IT companies during the placement drive. According to 2019 placement highlights, a total of 88 students got placed from the Electrical Engineering at IIT BHU. The salary package ranged between 10 LPA to 58.21 LPA.

On the other hand, CSE offers many job options and more scope than electrical since every other field is getting blended with the CSE nowadays. And, ISM holds decent placement records for the CSE branch. The placement highlights of 2019 show there was a 90.23% placement from CSE and the average CTC offered was 39.5 LPA.

IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT BHU both are among the reputed institutes for engineering in India. IIT BHU is ranked 11th while IIT Bhubaneswar is ranked 17th by MHRD in 2019. Both the IITs provide students with good academic experience and decent placements.

Talking about IIT BHU then the department of Mechanical Engineering came into existence in 1919. Over the past 100 years, the department has grown four folds to become the largest department in IIT(BHU), Varanasi. It offers a 4-year bachelor of technology program to the students who are admitted through JEE Advanced. The curriculum is periodically updated and designed in such a way that provides students with problem-solving skills and innovation of new technologies. Here in IIT BHU infrastructural facilities are great for research for a wide range of specializations such as Machine Design, Thermal and Fluid Engineering, Production Engineering and Industrial Management. They also focus on innovation so they have CST UP Incubation Center for grass root innovators started in 2018 under Mechanical Engineering Department. The placement scenario in IIT BHU is quite good. Out of 120 students, 109 were placed in the Mechanical Department in 2019 with an average offer of 8 Lacs per annum.

Electrical engineering at IIT Bhubaneswar is also good. School of Electrical Sciences at IIT Bhubaneswar offers a good academic and research-oriented environment. It was established in 2008. There are already 200+ ongoing research projects and have a fund of more than INR 1 billion. The department is engaged in a wide spectrum of research in emerging and innovative technologies through nationally and internationally funded sponsored research. The average placement in Electrical was 8.5 lacs per annum and almost 86% are placed in 2019. Most of the students were able to get jobs in the core-sector.

Both the institutes are of equal importance and the branches are also pretty good and offer plenty of opportunities. But IIT BHU has the 100 years old Legacy and has one of the biggest and well-connected alumni bases in our country. So here IIT BHU has an edge over IIT Bhubaneswar. But at last, branch and interest matters more than college.

IIT Jodhpur, IIT Patna, IIT Bhubaneswar all are good IIT with decent electrical engineering programs, which makes it difficult to just pick a single one.

Despite being a new IIT, IIT Bhubaneswar is ranked at 26, according to the National Institutional Ranking Framework. The average salary stands near 9–10 LPA for electrical branches with the maximum reaching around 16 LPA. Also the placement record of 2019 shows, 86% of EE students got a placement offer in IIT Bhubaneswar. 

IIT Jodhpur ranks at 25 among all the engineering colleges in India. The Department of Electrical Engineering in IIT Jodhpur had an unprecedented rise of 84% in placement statistics over the past academic year 2018–19. Electrical Engineering students got placed in major companies that visited the campus like DRDO, ISRO, L&T, Cisco Systems, Havells India Ltd., Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd., STMicroelectronics, etc. Some of the students of EE also chose to pursue research from top-notch universities in the world. IIT Jodhpur recently signed an MoU with NAIST, JAPAN which implies enhanced opportunities for internships and exchange programs for students of this IIT. 

IIT Patna ranks at 10 nationally according to NIRF, provides a good EE program. According to the 2019 placement record of this IIT, EE students got placement offers with an average of 11.49 LPA.

IIT Jodhpur, IIT Patna, IIT Bhubaneswar, all of these three IITs offer good electrical engineering programs with decent placement. So choose according to your convenience.

IIT Bhubaneswar is among the top engineering colleges in India. According to the NIRF Rankings it is placed at 17th in the engineering category. The Electrical Engineering program offered by IIT Bhubaneswar is good both in terms of academics and placements.

The eligibility criteria for EE is aggregate marks of 75% in 10+2. The selection for admission is done based on the performance of the student in JEE Advanced. In 2019 the JEE Advanced closing cutoff for EE at IIT Bhubaneswar was 2276-8787 (general category). The fees for the first-year is INR 2.14 LPA.

At present, the School of Electrical Science at IIT Bhubaneswar has 33 full-fledged laboratories well-equipped with modern instrumentation. The School has excellent faculties and most of them hold PhDs in their respective disciplines.

Electrical engineering has maintained a steady placement of 86% for the last three years. In 2019, 87% of the students from EE got placements in many top MNCs. The average CTC offered was INR 15.8 LPA, while the highest was around INR 43.3 LPA. MNCs like Deloitte, TCS, Capgemini, Goldman Sachs, etc. participated in the placement drive.