Every college has its own methods to train students. SPA is focused mostly on the market requirement and less focus on detailed analytical studies. IITs and NITs do not have undergraduate courses but if you want to pursue post-graduation courses then they are the best.

NIT Calicut is one of the best options due to the highly qualified faculty members and the major focus of the college is towards the holistic development of students. The atmosphere is also very familiar to live in Calicut. 

Go for NIT Calicut if you have a Bachelor’s degree in Planning. You can practice various analytical methods especially demanded in the market today that can give you an edge over others.

To be frank enough, your rank 4687 is quite a pretty decent rank. You should have gotten into these colleges in the beginning rounds itself. 

If you have not filled these colleges as per your preferences and are now going to a special round, Then it solely depends on the vacancy of that particular seat. 

But surely if there is any sort of vacancy, then with such a decent rank you will get a seat there. 

NIT Calicut provides the best faculty to its students. Every faculty is a Ph.D. in their respective field. Obviously, many faculty have even higher qualifications.

Now if you ask about faculty quality, then it will always differ from person to person. Some will find a faculty very good while some will find the same professor not so good. Opinions differ from student to student. To know the best faculty, you need to join their class yourself.

IIT Tirupati, an autonomous engineering and technology education institute that gives a 4-year Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) Civil Engineering program. Admission to the B. Tech program is through the Joint entrance examination (IIT-JEE-Advanced). It was ranked 25 for Engineering by JEE cutoff 2019.

NIT Calicut is a public technical university ranked 23rd for B. Tech and is one among the National Institutes of Technology campuses. The Institute offers a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Master of Technology (M. Tech), and Ph.D. Courses in various specializations for Mechanical Engineering.

Eligibility:

IIT Tirupati:

• 10+2 or Diploma (10+3) qualified students from a recognized board, with a minimum of 75% with Physics, Chemistry, and Math.

• Students applying must qualify for JEE Advanced.

NIT Calicut:

• 10+2 passed from a recognized board, with Physics and Maths as main subjects.

• Students applying must qualify for JEE Main and Advance.

The course fees for the BTech Civil and BTech Mechanical at IIT Tirupati and NIT Calicut respectively are as follows.

Placements:

IIT Tirupati:

• As of the 2019 stats, 70 out of 90 registered students were placed in reputed companies with an average package of 9.18 LPA and the highest packages offered was 22 LPA

• For the Civil department, the average package was 5.5 LPA.

NIT Calicut:

• 647 students from the UG, PG, got successfully placed for various job profiles with the highest package of INR. 49.75 LPA and the average CTC offered was INR. 11.58 LPA.

• Around 133 companies visited the campus and the placement percentage was 73.55 according to 2020 stats.

The details stated above about IIT, Tirupati, and NIT, Calicut for the Civil and Mechanical group might help the scholars to figure out the better institute by considering the eligibility, fee structure, and placements, etc.

Both the fields are greatly different. One lets you deal with finance and the other with mobile and technology. It completely depends on your interest.

ECE from NIT Calicut seems to be a better option. Because if you opt for it you will just have to brush up your knowledge on physics and learn more about it. Whereas economics will be a new subject and it will take a lot of time to learn it from scratch.

• In terms of college, BITS is surely a better option than NIT Calicut. But it’s not just about college, an NIT CSE graduate can land a job in Google and earn a lot. 
• Whereas somebody from IIT with Civil would have to compromise as there are not a lot of jobs offered in that field. 
• If you are interested in pursuing M.Tech from India or abroad or if you even want to have a great job, in the beginning, ECE from NIT Calicut is the best option. 
• But if you want to learn economics from scratch and pursue it to become an economist then economics is also a good option. 

Therefore, you must look into your interests and not opt for anything which just looks good. ECE is a circuit line and jobs are plenty in them too. So taking up ECE at NIT Calicut is a better option.

First of all, I want to clarify that there is no such branch called CSC in either BITS Pilani or NIT Calicut. Both the colleges have Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) degrees 

• BITS Pilani is a top private engineering university. However the same cannot be said about its Goa campus. 
• NIT is a brand that is recognized instantly by almost everyone in any part of the country and this gives NIT Calicut a distinct advantage. 
• As it is a government-run college the learning environment is also better due to the better quality of students. 
• Companies also prefer NITs over private engineering colleges. You will get better job opportunities at NIT Calicut.

Hence it is suggested that CSE at NIT Calicut is a much better choice than CSE at BITS Pilani Goa campus.

Hostels in NIT C for the PG students are not good. Students are allotted to the Professor's Apartment in their first tear. 

• The apartment consists of a flat which has 3 rooms, kitchen and 1 hall i.e. equivalent to a 3 BHK flat. But the number of students in each flat depends on the number of rooms each flat possesses. 
• Along with that, some students get the golden opportunity of residing in halls or even in the kitchens. 
• The toilets according to the number of students are always less and then there is always a queue outside the bathroom gate in the morning. There are a total of 14 to 16 students per flat. 
• The journey from apartments to college is like going on a trek. Now they have started a bus service.

This was the scenario of the first year and for the second year students, the scenario is a bit different. The second-year students are mostly accommodated in the MBA hostels which have toilets attached with the rooms but are far from the previous apartments where you were living in the first year. 

Wi-Fi is available on the campus and works well for the new buildings and hostels. At the time of joining they will tell you that the new hostels are under construction and will be ready to move soon. 

Please take a note that if possible go for the kitchen as that will be the only single room accommodation available for you as a PG student in NIT Calicut.

Few of my friends attend NIT Calicut and they were able to give me some information regarding the hostel on campus. 

• More than half of the hostel buildings appear to be old and rustic. They were built about 50 years ago but they still serve the basic required standard.
• Apart from your own room, everything else is cleaned almost every day. You will have to clean your room on your own.
• The first-year students are allocated rooms based on a 4 sharing system.
• For the second-year students who reside in hostel C, one room is allocated to three students. For those of the students who reside in Mega, the rooms are allocated on a two-sharing system.
• For third-year students residing in hostels B and C, one room is shared by three students.
• In the fourth year, usually, single rooms are allocated but due to renovation in hostel E, some of the rooms are allocated on a two-sharing basis.
• The food at the messes is sometimes good and sometimes bad. If you are willing to spend some extra money, you can make up for it.
• Internet connectivity is good. On some days the download speed goes up to 12 megabytes per second.
• From the second year onwards, there is no restriction imposed on boys regarding entry/exit time. Girls have permission to stay out till 9 pm.

NIT Calicut hostels are good in comparison to many engineering institutions in the country. You will enjoy your engineering life at the hostels there.