According to the placement highlight of 2019-20, IIT Bhubaneswar witnessed two computer science students bag the highest package to date, i.e. 43 LPA. Prior to that, in the 2018-19 session, 39 LPA was the highest package offered by Adobe, with 11.44LPA being the average. The stats show that computer science students get the most attractive packages ranging between 10-35 LPA on average, as compared to other branches that are offered 10-20 LPA. The CS branch students achieved an incredible 100% placement record last year with core branches witnessing an average of 89%. Over the past few years, the college has been able to achieve an amazing placement rate, greater than 85% consistently with an average domestic package of 11 LPA. IIT-Bhubaneswar has also experienced a rise in the number of companies taking part in the hiring process offering lucrative packages, Amazon, Microsoft, Mastercard, Accenture, Adobe, Aditya Birla Group being the prominent ones. These recruiters are not only there to hire but also offer summer internships, in R&D organizations and foreign universities. PSUs like IOCL, ISRO also participate in the recruitment drives and offer respectable roles to both BTech and MTech students.

BIMTECH offers PGDM programs in three disciplines mainly International Business, Retail Management and Insurance Business Management. Taxila Business School offers PGDM in 8 streams.

The overall average placement scenario of both institutes is as follows:

The average placements can provide a clear view as to which college stands on a favourable position with respect to which stream . Apart from that the facts that can be looked upon in respect of placements are:

Both the management institutes are at par with respect to placement. The difference lies in the choice of domains. BIMTECH is specialised to specific domains while Taxila offers a wide range with a decent package.

NIT Surathkal, formerly called Karnataka Regional Engineering College(KREC), located in Mangalore is an amalgamation of 13 departments, 1 school, 12 supporting centers, and 245 eminent dedicated faculty members. NIT Surathkal is ranked 13th in Engineering by and 33rd overall by NIRF 2020. MNNIT, Allahabad is a UGC and AICTE approved institute and has been ranked 14th by India Today 2020.

Admission to IT at NIT Surathkal and CSE at MNNIT is done through scores obtained in the JEE Mains entrance test and percentage in 10+2.

Placement:

NIT Surathkal:

It witnessed 100% placement in B.Tech and 79% in M.Tech during the batch of 2019.

• The highest package offered in the B.Tech program was 39 LPA while at M.Tech it was 18.75LPA.

• In the year 2018, more than 92% of the students were placed with the participation of more than 250 companies in the placement drive.

• Top recruiters at NIT Surathkal are Amazon, Honeywell, Axis Bank, Philips, Qualcomm, Bajaj, Samsung, Dell, Deloitte, Caterpillar, etc.

MNNIT Allahabad:

In the 2019 placement drive at MNNIT Allahabad, 1174 students participated out of which 792 students were placed.

• The highest CTC offered was 36 LPA with Accenture being the prominent recruiter.

• At MNNIT Allahabad, the B.Tech CSE batch of 2019 witnessed the highest recruitment with 163 students being placed out of 167. In terms of M.Tech, 84 students were placed out of 320 who participated in the placement drive.

• Some of the major recruiters at MNNIT Allahabad are Adobe, American Express, DRDO, Berger Paints, Coal India, CISCO, Bajaj Auto, eBay, etc.

Environment:

Both the institutes offer decent academic environments.

NIT Surathkal:

• IT laboratory at NIT Surathkal is equipped with 150 High-End Desktops with i7 processor, 50 Pentium IV Computers, 43 Workstations, 15 IBM and 35 HP Pentium III Desktops, IBM Power 7 Virtualization Server, 2 CUDA Servers for High-Performance Computing, Rational Rose Suite, Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360, MEMSIC Wireless Sensor Network, etc.

MNNIT Allahabad:

CSE department of MNNIT is equipped with internet connectivity of 10.5 Gbps supported through Optical fiber, 104 HP Compaq Elite 8300, 2 IBM Blade Server, 48 HP 406 G1 MT Business PCs, IBM SAN Storage, etc.

Both the universities are of high repute, offering quality education and high placement drive.

CIT, Kokrajhar, and Assam Engineering College are reputed engineering colleges in north-east India. CIT Kokrajhar offers better infrastructure, faculties, and facilities compared to Assam Engineering College as it is a central university and AEC is a state-funded University of Assam. However, AEC has a better placement record. Some students from CIT-K also opt for off-campus placements.

Given below is a comparison between the placement at the two institutions depending on past placement records.