From an academic point of view, the Metallurgy department provides great opportunities, industry exposure, good placement opportunities, and so on. There are many other reasons you can find relevant to consider it.

1. IIT Bhubaneswar has experienced professors from the respective background. There is also a good Student-Teachers ratio in the metallurgy department.
2. IIT BBS has furnished and well-equipped labs fit for research. As Orissa is famous for minerals, you will get many chances for field trips too. This will provide you with practical experiences.
3. During the 2019 campus placement,  90% of students from the metallurgy department got placed. The average salary package offered was around 11.4 LPA. In the past, many graduates have got a good salary package and got the chance to work abroad.
    

IIT Bhubaneswar offers Ph.D. programs for Engineering, Basic Science, Geoscience, Climate Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Management. The eligibility criteria for Ph.D. programs at this institute is an M.Tech/M.E degree in relevant discipline with minimum CGPA of 6.5 out of 10 or 60% aggregate from a recognized board.

The Ph.D. programs offered in IIT Bhubaneswar are quite good and offer great exposure as the institute has collaboration with foreign universities such as the University of Warwick, University of Southampton, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of Western Ontario, University of New York, University of North Dakota USA, and McGill University.

It also offers decent placement with around 89% placement rate as observed in the year 2019. Top Recruiters included Amazon, HCL, IBM, Infosys, Samsung Electronics India, DRDO, Accenture, WIPRO, OYO, Adobe, etc. The highest salary package offered during the placement was around 39 lakhs per annum and the average salary package offered was around 11 lakhs per annum.

IITs are considered as the best engineering colleges in India, but some college outranks the others depending on many factors like placement statistics, infrastructure, faculties, courses offered, etc. Judging by these parameters IIT Bhubaneswar should be ranked around 12 among the other IITs. The list is as follows:

1. IIT Mumbai
2. IIT Delhi
3. IIT Madras
4. IIT Kharagpur
5. IIT Kanpur
6. IIT Roorkee
7. IIT Guwahati
8. IIT Hyderabad
9. IIT BHU
10. IIT Indore
11. IIT Dhanbad
12. IIT Bhubaneswar

Most of the IITs in the list are old and have better placement scenarios compared to IIT Bhubaneswar. But if only new IITs are being compared, IIT Bhubaneswar placements are much better. For the first batch of CSE, the average package offered at this IIT was 14 LPA. Other branches like Electrical and Mechanical had received placement packages of 8.5 LPA and 8.8 LPA respectively.

Faculties of this IIT are experienced and many of them are carrying out their own research in their field of specialization. IIT Bhubaneswar also has many Student societies that focus on collaborative learning and project works. Many of them have already participated and won in various Hackathons and Code Chef.

IIT Bhubaneswar is among the second generation of IIT and it was established in 2008. Despite being a newly established institute, IIT Bhubaneswar is doing quite well in terms of academics and placements. According to 2020 NIRF Rankings. IIT Bhubaneswar was ranked at 22nd among the engineering colleges in India.

It is a new IIT and still in the developing phase, so it does not have the infrastructure as the old well-established IITs like Delhi, Bombay, etc. IIT Bhubaneswar as a campus is much better than any other new IITs but it does lack a proper playground and the students have to depend on the IMMT grounds which are only open for weekends. It also does not have some facilities like few labs for the school of Mechanical Engineering. But that does not mean IIT Bhubaneswar is any less. IIT Bhubaneswar is a new establishment and it will take some more years for this institute to come at the same level as the old IITs.

IIT Bhubaneswar also offers many facilities, for example, it has a Design and Innovation Centre (DIC) which is funded by the Ministry of Human Research Development (MHRD). Students work on cultural programs, fests, around the year to liven up the culture of IIT. IIT Bhubaneswar may not have all the facilities like the old IITs but they are trying their best to improve the IIT status.