First, you should decide which course you want to pursue Mtech in biotechnology or Mtech in industrial biotechnology as that would help in comparing institutes and choose the one with the better program.

VIT is considered to be the best colleges to pursue Mtech biotechnology due to the excellent consistency it has obtained with the placement rate and the strong conceptual foundation offered to the students along with hands-on experience.

On the other hand, NIT Surathkal is one of the leading NITs in India and offers quality education in Industrial Biotechnology.

NIRF has ranked VIT and NIT Surathkal at 15 and 13 respectively for BTech.

Admission:

• VIT takes admission for MTech Biotechnology based on VITMEE or GATE score. The required eligibility is BE/BTech or MSc in related discipline with 60% aggregate marks. The total fee for the MTech Biotechnology program at VIT is 2.99 lakh.

• On the other hand, NIT Surathkal takes admission for MTech through GATE. The prerequisite for admission is BTech in a related field with a minimum of 55% marks. The total fee for MTech Industrial Biotechnology in NIT Surathkal is 2.48 lakhs.

Placements:

The Department of Biotechnology at VIT is engaged in funded projects from Government departments and various Research institutions namely, DBT, DRDO and DST as well as from core industries. Students of the department get placement across industries such as pharma, biotech, and genetics, etc. Some of the top recruiters at VIT are Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Hetero drugs, Pulsus Healthcare, UnitedHealth Group, Zifo RnD Solutions, Orbuculum.

The top biotech companies like Biocon, Enzene Biosciences visit the NIT Surathkal campus for placements.

VIT has tie-up with various research institutions such as CSIO, Chandigarh; INMAS, Delhi; CMC, Vellore, etc.

Both NIT Surathkal and VIT offer quality education in the field of Biotechnology and have decent placements. So, choose the institute according to your convenience.

GBU Noida is a pioneering institution among India’s engineering colleges that provides a decent placement of 80-85% every year.

CCET Chandigarh is affiliated to Punjab University and ranks 68th as per NIRF ranking 2020 among India’s engineering colleges. 

UIET Chandigarh is one of the top 50 engineering colleges providing above 85% placements every year. 

UIET Hoshiyarpur is a premier institute imparting quality technical education. The institute provides an average placement of 70% every year. 

Admission process:-

GBU Noida:-

• BTech’s admission criteria are a minimum of 50% marks in 10+2 and a written test GPTU. 
• 60 seats are available for the program.
• The program fee is INR 5.46 LPA

CCE Chandigarh:-

• The admission criteria for BTech is a minimum of 45% marks in 10+2 along with JEE Mains.
• The institute charges INR 2.45 LPA.
• 60 seats are available for the program. 

UIET Chandigarh:-

• The admission is based on the valid score of 75% marks in 10+2 with physics, chemistry, and mathematics.
• The candidates must have a valid score in the JEE Main exam. 
• The total program fee is INR 3.25 LPA.
• The seats available are 40. 

UIET Hoshiarpur:-

• The BTech admission for both these colleges is based on a valid score of 75% marks in 10+2 with JEE Main. 
• The program fee is INR 3.52 LPA.
• 62 seats are available for the program. 

Placements:

All these institutes are an excellent place to pursue engineering courses and provide on an average of 80% placements every year in top-notch MNCs.

The top recruiting companies are Wipro, HCL, Honda, Berger, Paytm, Piramal, Oppo, TCS, etc. 

UIET Chandigarh is a way better than the rest in terms of faculties, placements and environment. The students will get an ample number of opportunities to enhance their skills. UIET is especially famous for CSE and IT departments, where the placements are above 90% every year.

PDPU has recently introduced a Computer Science stream. It has an 'A' grade provided by NAAC Accreditation and is graded Autonomy by UGC. It's ranked 177th in India by NIRF.

DDU offers Computer Engineering not Computer Science. It has a 'B++' grade provided by NAAC Accreditation and is ranked 193rd in India by NIRF.

Admissions:

PDPU

• The college accepts students based on the JEE Main score with 45% in 10+2.
• The total fee for B.Tech in Computer Science is 9.73 lakhs.

DDU

• The college accepts students based on the GUJCET scores with 50% in 10+2.
• The total fee for B.Tech in Computer Engineering is 6.08 lakhs.

Placements:

PDPU

• The placement rate of last year is about 70% with the highest package of INR 16.6 LPA and the average package of INR 6.75 LPA.
• The highest package for Computer Science was INR 9 LPA.

• Top recruiters of 2020 are Adani Power, Berger Paints, Byju’s, Cloud 24*7 Inc, Gujarat State Petronet Ltd, Honeywell, L&T Technology Services, Mahindra & Mahindra, MG Motors, OPS Hub, Nyara Energy, Reliance Industries, Synoptek, TCS, Tata Power, Worley, ZealousWeb, etc.

DDU

• The placement rate of last year is about 70% with the average package of INR 3.5 LPA.
• DDU does provide internship opportunities and help students to do an internship in 3rd year.
• Google has selected a single student and other top recruiters of 2020 are Amazon, TCS, Infosys, Kotak, Apollo, etc.

Faculty :

PDP University

• The faculty of the college is really good, they have in-depth knowledge of the concepts and mostly all of the faculty of the engineering branch are Ph.D.'s.
• There are a total of 218 faculty members including lecturers, assistant professors, associate professors, professors. 

DDU: Faculties are well experienced and most of them are M.Tech holders from institutes like IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, etc. and some of them are Ph.D holders.

Choosing between the college depends on the preferences and needs of the individual.

The Institute of Technology of Nirma University is ranked 1st in Ahmedabad. NIRF ranks the B.Tech course of the institute at 131st position out of 300 top colleges around India. LD College of Engineering is affiliated with Gujarat Technological University (GTU) and is also overlooked by the Department of Technical Education, Govt. of Gujarat.

Academics:

Nirma University:

• The CSE department has MoUs with NVIDIA, the Department of Atomic Energy, Indian Naval Ship (INS), ISRO.

• The laboratories available for the CSE department are Information and Network Security, High-Performance Computing, CISCO Laboratory.

• There are over 215 faculty members in the University.

• The Technology library has over 60,376 books, 1,65,00 e-books, 181 periodicals, 864 online journals, and 6,465 computers for students.

LDCE:

• The department of CE offers a BE program, Master of Computer Application and MTech in Computer Science and Technology.

• Some of the department’s libraries are DBMS Lab, Advance Project Lab, Operating System Lab, Digital Logic Lab, Programming Language Lab.

• Dr. Sanjay Shah is the HOD along with 18 Assistant Professors and one Associate Professor.

Placements:

Nirma University:

• In the B.Tech course, over 80% of students were successfully placed.

• In 2018, out of 808 students, 527 were placed from the undergraduate course in the Institute of Technology. The median salary was INR 3.5 LPA.

• The top recruiters are from the IT sector and Infosys, Reliance, and HDFC are the top three biggest recruiters of students of NU.

LDCE:

• Salucro, Cognizant, RouteRabbit, Tata, Wipro, and IBM are the top recruiters from the CE department of LDCE.

• Over 2244 students have been successfully employed in the last four years from which 373 were from the CE department. In 2019, 565 students received placements offers from the 111 recruiters on campus.

• Matrix, Reliance, Tata, Wipro, Godrej, Byjus, Adani, Samsung, Daikin, HSBC, Accenture, Deloitte, Suzuki, Amul, etc are some profound recruiters of this institute.

• The highest salary package of the college is approximately INR 12 LPA.

Choosing which college is superior is challenging. These colleges are well-known and have good faculty, education, and placement opportunities. Students can choose their preferred college according to the course they wish to pursue, depending on the availability of seats.

Most of the children’s choice will be engineering after their 12th grade. At that point, St. Francis Institute of Technology and Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Mumbai belong to sister concerns. Both the colleges are approved by AICTE and come under Mumbai University affiliation. St. Francis provides several scholarships to the minority community students when Don Bosco reserves 51% of seats for the minority community (Roman Catholic Community). The admission criteria for students in both the colleges will be based on JEE Main, MHT- CET, GATE, GPAT.

The table given below gives a brief overview of both the institutes:

To enhance students’ communicative and extracurricular skills both the colleges offer literary clubs and certified courses. When it comes to teaching methods both the colleges provide lab facilities, seminar rooms and counseling cells for student’s development. However, students can choose the college which is nearer to their home to avoid spending time on travelling, because both the colleges’ flood with a lot of assignments.

While Lady Shri Ram is an old, renowned college, Ashoka is relatively young and lacks a strong alumni network and instant recognition. According to NIRF rankings, Lady Shri Ram ranks among the top 5 while Ashoka University is placed on the 20th. Ashoka being a private university might not be affordable to everyone as its fee structure is too high but the facilities and exposure provided compensate for it.

Lady Shri Ram offers in-depth knowledge via a scholarly and reputed contingency of faculty which help in shaping future leaders. Some of the finest brains of the industry are prodigies of this college, recruited by top organizations like McKinsey, BCG, Standard Chartered, SW and many others offering an average package of 7.3 LPA, while Bank of America offered the highest package of 37.8 LPA. In the 2018-19 academic session, nearly 300 internship offers were rolled out with over 150 industry giants like Nestle, Dell, Bloomberg, AIG to name a few. Over 150 paid internships were offered to the students, the highest internship offer stood at INR 1,50,000 for 2 months. The average stipend for paid internships was nearly INR 9,750 per month.

Ashoka University boasts of a profoundly knowledgeable and exuberant faculty profile which is few and far between the UG colleges in the country. The tie-ups with reputed institutions like Ohio State University, Yale, Kings College London, UCB and many others cement the future foundations for individuals. With its unique curriculum Ashoka not only imparts deep knowledge but instills excellent leadership skills, a global perspective, and fervor to bring reform. Top recruiters are McKinsey, Genpact, Max Healthcare, Bloomberg Quint, Business Standard.

Jain University is best known for the placement it offers, the rate being 100%. India Today ranked Jain University at No. 7 among the best private universities in Bangalore. UGC has awarded Jain University with the Graded Autonomy Regulations. The Business World B-School Survey ranked AIMS Peenya at No. 18 for being the Best B-School in the country. AIMS Peenya has also been recognized for having the 1st best intellectual capital among the 3000 B-Schools in the country.

Placement:

Jain University-

Jain University offers various training and internship programs to its students around the year to build their base of knowledge, skills, and experience in the outside world.

• The top recruiting firms that have been providing placements to the students of Jain University are Tommy Hilfiger, ICICI, Deloitte, Panasonic, TCS, Morgan Stanley, EY, etc.

• The Placement Rate of Jain University has been consistent enough to be at 98.5% with more than 250 recruiters coming to the campus.

• The highest salary package announced at Jain University ranges around 30 LPA. Whereas, the average salary package offered is around 7 LPA.

AIMS Peenya-

The students at AIMS Peenya go through a rigorous training program that prepares them to face the challenges of the outside world and gives them the experience of working in various domains at the workplace.

• Various companies visiting the campus of AIMS Peenya that provide placements to the students are ICICI, Union Bank, PNB Housing, Deloitte, Bandhan Bank, Klaus IT Solutions, Future Group, Concentrix, etc.

• The highest annual compensation received to the alumni of the AIMS Peenya campus is 15.6 LPA.

• While the average annual compensation received to the alumni of AIMS Peenya is 4.92 LPA.

Both Jain University and AIMS Peenya have good placement rates.