My friend is about to finish his 1st year at NIT Raipur. According to his experience, NIT Raipur is considered average because of the following unfortunate reasons.

Average academics/faculty:

• Faculty over here is very amateur who hardly care, except a few of them. 
• Also, there are many temporary faculties who have no clue about what they are teaching. Moreover, even the syllabus is never completed.
• Lab assistants have an over-the-top ego. The whole curriculum you’ll see in the first year has nothing practical in it. Many teachers just read out from textbooks and make you simply copy.

Average infrastructure: 

• It is not up to the standards of a national institute. The recently renovated classrooms are good. 
• However, you’ll find the campus to be really small with only a few gathering points like a central garden, Amul parlour, canteen, etc.
• There’s a shortage of hostels and if you are from the general category then better be prepared to stay outside the Institute. Providing hostels for only 30% of students, construction of new student hostels are the least of their concern.

Average placements:

• Despite being an NIT, the placements are in no way comparable to NITs like Trichy and Warangal. You’ll get pretty average packages of 7 LPA in CSE and 6.5 lakh LPA in IT.
• For core branches, it's worst with branches like architecture having zero placement. 
• Many branches like biotech and BioMed had less than 50% of students eligible and willing for placements. However, there were some off-campus placement packages like 75 LPA and 20 LPA, but it's rare.

Fests: 

• It is the only thing that is somewhat good. They are fully managed by you and your seniors who are really interactive and helpful. 
• Fests promote inter branch interaction and interaction with seniors. Still, you’ll find that college life is not up to the mark.

Overall, NIT Raipur has a lot to improve, whether it is the curriculum, faculty, or the infrastructure. So, don't come here with high expectations as you will surely be disappointed.