NIT and IIEST are long-established academic institutions. Competition for seats at these colleges is intense, especially for engineering branches such as EEE, ME and Civil. While NIT offers 168 seats in ME, IIEST offers 136 seats for civil engineering.

A comparison of both courses and colleges is given below.

Campus

• IIEST: The green campus, with three water bodies, is spread across 114 acres and is intertwined with modern technology.

• NIT Durgapur: Spread across 187 acres, the green campus includes buildings, hostels, and an academic centre. It has two fields: The Lords and The Oval.

Facilities

• IIEST: The institute offers facilities like hostels, Library, Labs, Canteen, School, etc. It also provides hospitals, ambulances, sports clubs, and entrepreneurship activities.

• NIT Durgapur: A number of facilities are offered, including hostels, recreation, auditorium, canteens, labs, guesthouse, computer centre, medical care, library, etc.

Placement Statistics

• IIEST: Top recruiting companies were Accenture, Aditya Birla, ICICI Bank, Microsoft, etc. The highest package was 39.12 LPA.

• NIT Durgapur: The highest package offered was 32.5 LPA. Top recruiters are Wipro, TCS, Amazon, Microsoft, and L&T.

Courses Scope:

• The Electrical and Electronics Engineering studies electricity and electronics. EEE graduates are employed in sectors like Electronics, Telecom, aerospace, etc. Professions include Electrical Engineer, IAF Member, Telecom Electrical Engineer, etc.

• Mechanical Engineering involves the production, designing, and operations of machines. ME graduates are employed in R&D, Design, Production, Analysis, Testing, Installation, etc.

• Subjects taught in Civil Engineering include Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Analysis, etc. Employment sectors for this branch include Irrigation companies, construction, land development, etc.

Students must compare both the streams and colleges carefully. Individuals’ capabilities and expectations decide which one will be perfect for them.

With regards to educational standards and latest equipped technologies, Indian institutes have always had an upper hand considering greater popularity and a higher amount of funding from the central government.

IIEST Shibpur is the second oldest engineering college in India and backs a ranking of 19 by NIRF among engineering institutes. NIT Durgapur on the other hand is ranked 47 by NIRF for Engineering in the year 2020.

IIEST Shibpur has a research-based approach towards the BTech program in CST as compared to NIT Durgapur which has a much more theoretical and practical approach.

Let us have a look at the main points of differences between the two colleges mentioned that will help you narrow down a decision.

Admission: IIEST Shibpur and NIT Durgapur, both the institutes offer admission for BTech programs based on JEE Mains scores.

• In 2019 the closing cutoff for CST at IIEST Shibpur was 9379.

• In 2019 the closing cutoff for CSE at NIT Durgapur was 17031.

Fees: The total fees for IIEST Shibpur CST are 5.38 lakhs and for NIT Durgapur it’s 5.56 lakhs.

Placements: Both the institutes offer good placements and more than 90 companies visit the campuses for recruitments every year.

IIEST Shibpur-

• IIEST Shibpur offers an 81.82% placement rate for the CST branch.

• The average median salary offered to the students of CST is around 6.5 lakh.

• Some top recruiting companies are TCS, IBM, and Axis Bank.

NIT Durgapur-

• NIT Durgapur offers the highest placement for the CSE branch with a placement rate of 88.64%.

• An average salary of 9 LPA is offered to the students.

• Some top recruiting companies are Amazon, Oracle, and Sigma.

Infrastructure: The campus facilities at both the colleges are well maintained and offer a great student experience but IIEST has a more advanced infrastructure considering it receives a higher funding amount annually as compared to NIT Durgapur.

Alumni: IIEST Shibpur has had collaborations with top universities like the University of Wisconsin and also oversees ‘World leaders in Engineering’ as part of their glorious alumni network. The alumni base of NIT Durgapur is not as developed as compared to IIEST Shibpur.

Go through the given points in mind and make a well-informed decision in terms of admissions accordingly.

Both the branches, whether CSE in IIEST Shibpur or ETCE in Jadavpur University is worth their name. Still, there are many factors regarding Rankings, Admission Process, Fees, Scholarships, and Placements that differentiates them.Jadavpur University acquires a spot as 17th college in BTech amongst 300 in India 2020.IIEST Shibpur, on the other hand, stands firm with 21st ranking amongst Engineering institutes, as per NIRF Ranking 2020.

ADMISSIONS:

Jadavpur University:

• To be eligible for the JU admission process, a student must have 10+2 with 45% and scores of WBJEE. Later, a counseling process takes place.
• 90% of seats at JU are for domicile General Category and 10% for all Indian students.
• The seat intake for ETCE students for UG is 64 whereas, for PG courses, it is 28.

IIEST Shibpur:

• To be eligible, students must have their CBSE 10+2 scores with at least 45% and a minimum of 30% marks in English. The entrance exam for admissions is JEE Mains (Paper I). After selection, a student goes through JoSAA Counselling and CSAB Special Board.

Fees:

• The overall fees of BTech in JU is far less in comparison to IIEST Shibpur. A student has to pay a minimum fee of INR 9,600 for the whole course whereas, a student from IIEST has to pay INR 1.37 lakhs per year.
• Apart from this, JU offers scholarships to meritorious students. A few are SN Scholarship and DAAD Scholarship.

Placements:

Jadavpur University:

• According to the latest data, there was a 100% placement rate from JU. The highest annual package was INR 58 lakhs.
• The total number of eligible students from ETCE was 55, and 51 got placements. The average annual package for ETCE was INR 9 lakhs, and the highest was INR 39 lakhs.
• These students got into software and core companies. The top recruiters were Amazon, Synopsis, TATA Consultancy Services, HPCL, and Goldman Sachs. Some students even went for higher studies from this branch into IITs, IIMs, etc.

IIEST Shibpur:

• A drop in placements is visible from the past consecutive years in IIEST Shibpur. In 2017 it was 85.71%, 81.82% in 2018 and 72% in 2019.
• The average annual package of a CSE student is INR 9 lakh while the highest package was 39.12 lakhs.
• 90 reputed companies came for final placement and made 462 offers.
• Some of thetop recruiters were Cognizant, Infinity Infosys Parks, Capgemini, etc.

Looking into the above factors, ETCE from JU proves to be a better option than CSE in IIEST Shibpur in rankings, fees, placements criteria.

Being one of the most prestigious Universities in India, IIEST Shibpur sees a lot more top companies for placement purposes every year. Jadavpur University on the other hand also has a high placement rate but oversees more core companies as compared to IIEST.

• Funds: IIEST Shibpur receives a high amount of funding from the central government annually, being a public university, and therefore has a better campus, more equipped facilities, and better tech services as compared to Jadavpur University.
• Crowd: Since IIEST is considered among the top college of national importance, it enrolls students from all over the country, therefore, making it a diverse environment culturally.
• Placements: Although, for students looking for courses in CSE, Jadavpur University is known to offer a 100% placement record with an average salary package of 19.96 LPA. Some of the top recruiting companies are Microsoft, Reliance, Samsung, Oracle, and more. IIEST offers the highest placements across the Information Technology branch with an average salary of 5 LPA.
• Course Offered: If students are looking for an integrated course that offers placement services, then the BTech+MTech dual degree course offered by IIEST Shibpur is apt considering Jadavpur University does not offer dual degree courses as part of their curriculum. But in terms of individual placements in the streams of Civil, Mechanical, andEE, Jadavpur University offers some great placements for students amongst some top recruiting companies.

Being well known nationally, IIEST attracts more number of companies for placements but Jadavpur University offers a higher number of core company placements across specific streams. It offers the highest salary package of 42 LPA whereas IIEST offers the highest salary package of 39.12 LPA.

Therefore, students can make a choice related to which university offers better placements depending upon the core subjects they are looking at studying.

The answer to this question may help the student, as my sister was in this place just a year before. However, class notes are the best and real deal, and the students must follow class notes to understand the topic discussed in the class.

Chemistry

• Class notes are the best, but the students must collect notes from the different departments as well.
• My sister also followedCastellan for the Physical Chemistry part.

Computing and Programming

• There are numerous books for Logic Gates and Binary System.
• C programming course is the main course for this subject and you can follow Let us C for this course.

Basic Electronics Engineering

• The student must follow the Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory by Boylestad and Nashelsky for this subject. This book contains a number of solved problems.

Mathematics I

• For this, students can go for Higher Engineering Mathematics by B.S Grewal; this book is also helpful for the second year of study.
• Besides, the student can also follow A Textbook of Engineering Mathematics Volumes I, II, III, IV by Guruprasad Samanta from their first year to last year’s study.

Mechanics

• The class notes and the problem sheets are important for this subject and you should solve the problems thoroughly.
• Besides, they can follow the book with 4 authors, namely, Engineering Mechanics by S.Timoshenko, D H Young, J.V Rao and Sukumar Pati. 

Basic Electrical Engineering

• Besides regular class notes, the student can go for Basic Electrical Engineering by Abhijit Chakrabarti, Sudipta Nath and Chandan Kumar Chanda, and Basic Electrical Engineering by V.N Mittle and Arvind Mittal to get a good backup.

Mathematics II

• As it is mentioned in Mathematics I, the Vector Space chapter will be quite troublesome for the students. For Linear Algebra, they can follow the book written by Sheldon Axler.

Physics

• Students must go for B.K Guha's Degree Physics for Science and Engineering, as this book helps the student keep afloat.
• They can also follow Ajoy Ghatak for Optics¸, Schaum's Outline of Vector Analysis by Murray Spiegel and Seymour Lipschutz for Vector Algebra¸ Advanced Acoustics by D.P Ray Chaudhri for Acoustics.

From the above, it is cleared that class notes should be the first priority for every student; besides, they can take the book from Ramanujan Central Library. But, they have to be an early bird; otherwise, everything will be stocked out. Students can also find online PDFs for the study if they can’t buy books, as most of the books are expensive enough.

While Civil Engineering is a widely popular branch of engineering in India, a B.Tech. in the same at IIEST, Shibpur is a highly demanded degree. One of the main points of attraction for the interested students is the quality internships that they can avail as civil engineering students at IIEST, through networking with the wide alumni base, situated both in India and abroad.

About the Placement Cell:

• The Training and Placement cell at IIEST, Shibpur is responsible for bringing internships, jobs, and vocational training opportunities to its students. It even grooms the students for the same.

• The cell also brings its students paid and/or summer internship opportunities including the DAAD Scholarship-Working Internship In Science And Technology.

Statistics:

• Around 40-60% of the students at IIEST get internships during their study period at the institute. Consequently, students also get jobs and/or valuable industry contacts through the said internships.

• In 2016, a 3rd-year student from IIEST Shibpur got an internship at Google Headquarters in the USA after competing with the best young minds of the nation, from top colleges like the IITs, for the spot.

• Students that are interested in VT ( vocational training ) can contact their professors at IIEST, who usually have contacts at some of the top civil construction or design firms.

• Texas Instruments offers internships on campus to 3rd-year students. The selection procedure for the same is rigorous. Internships are also offered by CESC.

• About 78% of the students from Civil Engineering (Batch of 2016) got an internship at Hindustan Construction Company.

• Microsoft offers internships to IIEST students every year as well.

Apart from these, students also look for internships/training opportunities independently at various companies to learn the workings of the industry and increase their expertise.

Therefore, B.Tech. in Civil Engineering at IIEST is a decent option for students looking for fantastic internships to cultivate, practice, and improve their skills and efficiency while studying, so that they are prepared and fit for the job by the time they start working. It also gives them practical experience in the real world, which helps one learn. IIEST Shibpur enables this through the opportunities it gives its students and its strong alumni network.

A senior of mine has told me that a score of 225 would be more than enough for getting admission in electrical in IIEST Shibpur. The admission criteria are the same for applicants belonging to the home state (West Bengal) or from any other state. With that score, you can also get CST and ECE with ease.

You can also compare trying to solve the paper for the previous years for getting acquainted with the pattern. Difficulty of the exams also somewhat determines admission, especially when cutoffs change every year. According to the cutoff trends of recent years, a score of 225 should be enough to secure admission.

IIEST Shibpur is known for its national importance and outstanding alumni network. Thapar Institute of engineering and technology is one of India’s leading private institutions with a NIRF ranking of 27 amongst top engineering colleges. Let us have a look at the difference between the two universities based on some important and relevant factors.

Admissions:

IIEST Shibpur- For BTech at IIEST Shibpur students are required to clear JEE mains and have a minimum of 45% in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in 10+2, along with 30% in English. For the BTech program in CST, the JEE mains cut-off was at 9379 in 2019.

Thapar University- For CSE admissions at Thapar University, students must qualify JEE mains. The general rank cut-off was 915971 in 2019.

Fee Structure: Considering IIEST is a public university funded by the central government, the demanded fee structure is relatively low. Thapar University on the other hand is a private institution and therefore has a higher range of tuition fees.

• The total annual fee for BTech sums up to 1.36 lakhs.

• The total annual fee for BTech in CSE sums up 3.24 lakh.

Infrastructure: Being funded by the government, IIEST offers an updated experience in terms of technology but lacks modern infrastructure considering the college is nearly 160 years old. Thapar University is a private institution that has absolutely high-end and modern facilities all across its campus.

Placements:

IIEST Shibpur-

• In 2019, 72% of students got placed from the CSE branch in top companies.

• The average salary offered to the students of CSE is 6.5 LPA.

• The top recruiters that participate in the placement drive are TCS, Samsung, Infosys.

Thapar University-

• It has a consistent 90% placement rate over the years.

• The average salary offered is around 7 LPA.

• Major recruiters of CSE students are Amazon, Microsoft, JP Morgan.

As for which institute to choose, you should decide that depending on your preferences and requirements.