IIT Roorkee and IIT Bhubaneswar both are good IITs with decent placement records. Even though IIT Bhubaneswar is a new name among Indian IITs, it’s doing quite well placement wise. The placement record of 2019 revels, 100% of CSE students got placement offers in IIT Bhubaneswar.

But being an old IIT, IIT Roorkee has a few advantages over IIT Bhubaneswar in terms of placement. Most of the(80%) programming companies that come to IIT Roorkee are open for all the branches. For example, FANG et al which is open for all in placement but does not visit IITs below Top 7–8 every year. There are also core Electrical Engineering job placements, including some top MNCs as well, which hire Electrical Engineering students only. So, you can have either options of programming jobs and core electrical engineering jobs. Adding to that, there is a larger alumni base, plus the availability of many facilities simply because IIT Roorkee is an older institute.

So, in terms of placement and future prospects between IIT Roorkee electrical or IIT Bhubaneswar CSE, IIT Roorkee electrical is a better choice.

Civil engineering placements at both IIT BHU and IIT Roorkee are quite good. In fact, overall placements at both of these premier institutes are at par irrespective of the branch (if you wish to go for the non-core sectors including finance, consultancies, IT, developer). Core sector placements were not up to the mark at IIT BHU previously but the department saw some good placements this year.

Tabulated below is the placement statistics for IIT BHU Civil Engineering:

A lot more non-core companies came for placements and the CTC offered ranged between 7LPA to 14 LPA and the average CTC was around 7.5 LPA.

Tabulated below is the placement statistics for IIT Roorkee civil engineering: 

The recent placement trends for Civil Engineering at IIT Roorkee is given below in the table.

There are mixed reviews about the placements of the chemical department of IIT BHU and IIT

Roorkee. Students of IIT BHU thinks they have good placements than IIT-R and vice-versa. A

senior professor of Chemical Department T IIT Roorkee, who is an alumnus of IIT BHU, visited the campus of IIT BHU last year. According to him, students at both of the institutes believe that grass is greener on the other side. The fact is placements in both the departments are almost equal.

Following are some of the examples for the same:

1. ITC, which offers 18L CTC, visited IIT-R and not IIT BHU, while HUL (Hindustan Unilever Limited), offering 22L CTC, visited IIT BHU, but not IIT Roorkee.

2. Core companies for Chemical Engineering like Aditya Birla, Reliance visits both the campus.

Now coming to branch change, in IIT BHU, a maximum of 10 percent of students can move from one branch to another, while in IIT Roorkee, it’s only 2 percentage. So, in the case of branch change, IIT BHU is more liberal for change in the branch, i.e. if there are 120 students at IIT BHU chemical department, 12 students can move for branch change while in case of IIT-R in the strength of 120, approximately 3 students would be able to do the branch change.

First, you should decide which branch you want to pursue ECE or Electrical, as that would help you choose the institute. The electrical engineering branch mainly focuses on the power systems and machines while Electronics is mainly focussed on hardware and working of electronic devices.

Now coming to options you have, for electrical IIT Roorkee and IIT BHU have similar course content. But IIT Roorkee has a slight edge over IIT BHU as more companies visit the campus compared to IIT BHU. A total of 254 companies participated in the placement drive for 2019-20 at IIT Roorkee. The average CTC offered was around 14.7 LPA. Whereas, the placement highlights for 2019 at the IIT BHU show, a total of 52 companies visited the campus and the average salary was around 8.19 LPA. A total of 88 students from Electrical Engineering got placed this year.

IIT Guwahati offers a good ECE program. In 2019, the ECE department had 84% placement and the average CTC offered was around 11 LPA. A total of 88 students got placement from IIT BHU last year. If you want to have the option for software placement, then IIT BHU will be the better option. Software placements of IIT BHU are better than IIT G. Also, IIT BHU offers a better coding culture.

IIT Roorkee and IIT BHU both used to be engineering colleges before they converted into IIT, due to which a comparison between these two institutes exists. Given below are a few information on which IIT Roorkee and IIT BHU can be compared.

• The NIRF Rankings 2020 ranked IIT Roorkee and IIT BHU at 6 and 11 respectively.

• The number of Passing batches are more in number at IIT Roorkee as it became IIT before BHU and also has a vast legacy.
• Facilities, infrastructure, and a higher number of experienced faculties are available in Roorkee. IIT BHU lags behind a little in terms of facilities and infrastructure as this institute is still developing.
• IIT Roorkee offers more branches, more seats, INFOSEC(world’s top security computer program), more no of PPOs, more no of google summer placements, etc. as compared to IIT BHU.
• According to 2019 placement statistics the average CTC offered at IIT Roorkee and IIT BHU was respectively 14.7 LPA and 8.19 LPA.