An institute should not be judged according to its popularity. Among the above two options, IT in IIIT Allahabad is a much better choice, considering the infrastructure, faculty, and overall environment in IIIT Allahabad. The table below gives a brief level of comparison among the two institutes.

Key Highlights - IIIT Allahabad: 

• IIIT Allahabad has the modern-day infrastructure, along with top-notch faculty and a great learning environment for IT.
• The coding culture in IIIT Allahabad is quite well established and is evident from the ranks in different coding competitions and hackathons.

Considering all the above factors and the placement scenario of IT in IIIT Allahabad, it is definitely a better choice than MNNIT. Even being a newer institute, IIIT Allahabad should always be preferred over MNNIT.

A friend at NIT Rourkela gave me a detailed review of her college the last time she visited me. Here are some highlights from her descriptive experience 

• NIT Rourkela has a huge, serene, and well-secured campus.
• The institute has diverse clubs that promote extracurricular activities and their performance is better than most clubs of other engineering colleges.
• Decent Internet speed is offered and the Dc++ is well maintained.
• The hostels are well-maintained and decked with all the basic amenities one could ask for.
• Students are actively involved in sports such as gymming and swimming.
• The faculties are a mixed bag. Some are underqualified and lethargic while some motivate you to become a better person.
• The institute boasts of an extensive entrepreneurship culture.
• The institute needs to work on increasing its alumni base and the level of fests it organizes given the huge income the institute generates.
• The placement scenario varies from branch to branch. It's decent for branches like CS while pathetic for others.
• Rourkela does not have any places to explore and also lacks flight connectivity.
• The city of Rourkela is one of the cleanest places so hygiene is not an issue here. 

These were some snippets from the detailed experience shared by my friend. Hope this helped you.

According to the experience of one of my cousins, PIBM has its pedagogy and is completely abide by all the rules and regulations. Though the college infrastructure is not too big the college provides quality education to all the students.

• The faculty is also well-educated, thereby guiding all the students in the right direction to accomplish their goals.
• PIBM provides internships in respectful companies. The college also has a communication and aptitude department that trains students for difficult interview rounds for placements.
• The placements provided by the college are decent.

According to recent placement statistics, the following inference can be made:

Last but not least we can say that the college offers a suitable study environment along with decent placements that is the main motive of every student to get into the college.

My experience for the TAPMI PGDM interview was excellent, there were two people during the interview panel, one male and one female. As I had some work experience they directly started me asking the company valuations and how can we decide how valuable a company is, they asked me about the CEO and recent news related to the company, they asked me about my hobbies and a few questions related to that. They also asked me questions about my undergraduate, like Fourier transform and Laplace transform, as it has been too long since I did engineering I told them I am not able to answer these questions. The overall experience was great.

First-year NIT Patna boys are allotted separate hostels with two/three-seater rooms. The rooms are not very great. There are single seater rooms also, but they are very small in number. There are three hostels for fresher boys- Sone Hostel Block A and B, Kosi Extension near Ganga Ghat, and Ganga Hostel. 

From the second year onwards, you will get a different hostel. There are mainly double-seater rooms in this one. Only 10 out of 500 rooms are four-seater. In this hostel, you will get to meet your seniors. 

The mess food isn’t good. Drinking water, common rooms, and washrooms are good. The premises have space where you can play underarm cricket, badminton and volleyball. In the fresher hostels, you won’t encounter any seniors. I don’t know much about the Girls’ hostel, just the name- Ganga Hostel.

Overall, the boys’ hostels are pretty average at NIT Patna. The senior hostel is comparatively better and new.