The major factor that drives the decision of which course to pursue is the placements.

Chemical Engineering- IIT Roorkee

As per the 2018-19 placements record, more than 250 companies participated in campus placements, some of them were ITC, Reliance, Jindal Steel, TATA, and many more. Chemical Engineering Students at IIT Roorkee recorded an average placement of INR 13.05 lakhs per annum. A total of 8 PPOs were offered to Chemical Engineering students. Roles were offered for Technologist, Researcher, Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Consultant, etc. The placement rate for Chemical Engineering was around 80%.

ECE at IIT Bhubaneswar

ECE is one of the new branches of IIT Bhubaneswar and was introduced in 2016. Due to this, the first batch to pass out would be the batch of 2020. So there are no past records for this course. However, seeing the trend of placements for electrical engineering, the same can be assumed for ECE as well. In the year 2018-2019, 86% of the Electrical Engineering Department was placed. Companies like Amazon, INTEL Technology, ISRO, DELL, Thermax, Tata Steel, and many more visited to recruit students during campus placements. The average placement was recorded at INR Rs. 11.44 lakhs per annum.

EEE at IIT Mandi

As per 2019-20 placements, 62.5% of EEE were placed during phase-1 of campus placements. A total of 75 companies visited the campus and some of the top recruiters were Accenture, Wipro, CISCO, ISRO, CSC India, Siemens to name a few. The average package offered was 13.5 lakhs per annum. Several PPOs were also offered.

Considering the placements data, you should choose Chemical Engineering at IIT Roorkee. However, the final decision of which course and college to select rests up to you.

CSE is a branch with unlimited opportunities and wide scope to explore. Opting for a CSE branch at a new IIT will surely let you explore many opportunities and will provide a good package as well. Looking at the placement statistics, IIT Jodhpur offers 16.73 LPA of average package whereas IIT Bhubaneshwar offers an average package of 11.44 LPA for CSE students. Both the IITs have placed 100% of their students, as per record of 2019. If you are interested to pursue CSE as your domain in graduation then preferring CSE at new IITs would be better.

Whereas, if you have an interest in research and pure Mathematics then you should opt for ‘Applied Mathematics’ at IIT Roorkee. IIT Roorkee offers two courses in Applied Mathematics viz. ‘Integrated M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics)’ of 5 years and ‘Two years M.Sc. (Mathematics)’ of 2 years. There are 30 seats in total for this course and the average package offered during placement is around 14.73 LPA. Companies like Adobe recruits 2 students each year offering the package of 38 LPA. Other companies that come for placement are Accenture, Goldman Sach Services, American Express, De Shaw. Moreover, top core IITs provide many opportunities in curricular activities too.

IIT Roorkee and IIT Bhubaneswar both are good IITs with decent placement records. Even though IIT Bhubaneswar is a new name among Indian IITs, it’s doing quite well placement wise. The placement record of 2019 revels, 100% of CSE students got placement offers in IIT Bhubaneswar.

But being an old IIT, IIT Roorkee has a few advantages over IIT Bhubaneswar in terms of placement. Most of the(80%) programming companies that come to IIT Roorkee are open for all the branches. For example, FANG et al which is open for all in placement but does not visit IITs below Top 7–8 every year. There are also core Electrical Engineering job placements, including some top MNCs as well, which hire Electrical Engineering students only. So, you can have either options of programming jobs and core electrical engineering jobs. Adding to that, there is a larger alumni base, plus the availability of many facilities simply because IIT Roorkee is an older institute.

So, in terms of placement and future prospects between IIT Roorkee electrical or IIT Bhubaneswar CSE, IIT Roorkee electrical is a better choice.

Civil engineering placements at both IIT BHU and IIT Roorkee are quite good. In fact, overall placements at both of these premier institutes are at par irrespective of the branch (if you wish to go for the non-core sectors including finance, consultancies, IT, developer). Core sector placements were not up to the mark at IIT BHU previously but the department saw some good placements this year.

Tabulated below is the placement statistics for IIT BHU Civil Engineering:

A lot more non-core companies came for placements and the CTC offered ranged between 7LPA to 14 LPA and the average CTC was around 7.5 LPA.

Tabulated below is the placement statistics for IIT Roorkee civil engineering: 

The recent placement trends for Civil Engineering at IIT Roorkee is given below in the table.

There are mixed reviews about the placements of the chemical department of IIT BHU and IIT

Roorkee. Students of IIT BHU thinks they have good placements than IIT-R and vice-versa. A

senior professor of Chemical Department T IIT Roorkee, who is an alumnus of IIT BHU, visited the campus of IIT BHU last year. According to him, students at both of the institutes believe that grass is greener on the other side. The fact is placements in both the departments are almost equal.

Following are some of the examples for the same:

1. ITC, which offers 18L CTC, visited IIT-R and not IIT BHU, while HUL (Hindustan Unilever Limited), offering 22L CTC, visited IIT BHU, but not IIT Roorkee.

2. Core companies for Chemical Engineering like Aditya Birla, Reliance visits both the campus.

Now coming to branch change, in IIT BHU, a maximum of 10 percent of students can move from one branch to another, while in IIT Roorkee, it’s only 2 percentage. So, in the case of branch change, IIT BHU is more liberal for change in the branch, i.e. if there are 120 students at IIT BHU chemical department, 12 students can move for branch change while in case of IIT-R in the strength of 120, approximately 3 students would be able to do the branch change.