VIIT is the first preference of many students for civil engineering. NIRF and the Outlook rated this college 155th and 132nd respectively for engineering. VIIT Pune offers a B.Tech program in Civil Engineering.

Admission:

• The required eligibility for admission to BTech Civil Engineering is 10+2 and the JEE Mains score. It also accepts scores for state level exams like MHT-CET.
• The tentative cut-offs are generally 74% and 72% for Civil Engineering.
• The total course fee is 6.59 lakhs.

Faculty:

In the department, the faculty members are excellent with the majority of them having a Ph.D. degree and years of experience in teaching.

Infrastructure:

A well-organized technical lab and the departmental library is there and can be accessed by the students. A fully ventilated auditorium cum conference room is also available where guest faculty take up the workshops and conferences.

Placement:

Students here are trained for placements by mock interviews and industrial visits during their final year. The college has a placement rate of 95 percent in the civil engineering department which again makes it a better choice for this course.

• The average salary received by Civil engineers of VIIT is 4.2 lakhs with a 5:1 student to company ratio.
• Akme projects Ltd, BGR Energy system, Punj Lloyd, Afcons infrastructure limited are some of the renowned recruiters of the civil engineering department where students get placed.

Internships are also available with a stipend during vacation times. On compilation of the internships, many students get job offers.

VIIT Pune is a good option for Civil Engineering with decent placement opportunities.

One of my friends was in the same situation last year. He got IIEST Shibpur Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Civil Engineering along with a rank of 1383 in West Bengal State Merit List of NEET for MBBS admission converted with a mark of 462. 

• In West Bengal State counseling he received R Ahmed Dental College in the 3rd round. 
• He refused the seat in KPC Medical College as he knew that his parents will not be able to pay his fees of 8 lakhs over 4.5 years. As he was not interested in Civil so he continued with Metallurgy and Materials Engineering.
• During his 1st semester, he again started preparing for NEET but figured out later that the course pressure at IIEST Shibpur is too much and with so much to study for NEET, he was just falling apart. 
• His CGPA was not good as it was only 8.67 and ultimately decided not to go for NEET as his father advised him to concentrate on IIEST and give up on his dreams of becoming a doctor. 
• It came as a shock but later he realized that preparing for NEET all over again alongside maintaining a proper CGPA at IIEST is doing more harm than good to his career. 
• He felt that he should have taken the drop in the beginning but he was not ready to take any risk and IIEST Shibpur being a renowned college he was not ready to leave it.

So, if you want to become a doctor and serve people and if it's the long-cherished dream of pursuing MBBS then you should leave IIEST and better prepare for NEET again. Different people will have different views regarding the decision of leaving a good college like IIEST but in the end, it completely depends upon your goals.

There is very little demand for civil engineers here in the Indian markets. Unfortunately, not many skilled civil engineers are output from any Indian engineering college. 

• The curriculum of all engineering colleges hasn’t been updated for over a decade and it is not at all in sync with the current needs and requirements of the civil industry.
• Most of the civil engineers who pass out from the reputed colleges across India are either offered computer programming jobs with a package of 5-10 LPA on an average or become managers in the industry.
• The reality of civil engineering in India is quite a sad sight to look at and the students are paying with their twisted career choices for it.

There is no doubt to the fact that NIT Surathkal is an impressive institute with reputed faculty guiding the students, with an exception for the branch of civil engineering. Either the students are not able to develop sufficient interest in the same or the curriculum is not such that invokes interest or keeps them motivated enough. Moreover, it is also not in accordance with the industrial standards and needs.

CUSAT is a university that had colleges under it in the past. Now it only has colleges or schools to be exact. Which are under the main university campus. 

Following are the various schools affiliated with CUSAT University.

• SOE: It stands for School of Engineering and deals with UG engineering courses.
• Old SOE: It deals with Grad and Ph.D. courses. It also comprises various departments for MCA.
• SLS: It stands for School of Legal Studies and deals with the law courses.
• SMS: It stands for School of Management Studies and deals with business-related courses.
• Kunjali Marakkar School of Marine Engineering: It deals with marine engineering courses.

The above-mentioned schools constitute the main campus. This is not the entire CUSAT, there is another campus for the university. 

Lakeside Campus:

• The Lakeside campus is around 12 km from the main campus. It is set in Cochin city on the estuarine waterfront. 
• It consists of the School of Ocean Science and Technology, School of Industrial Fisheries, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Chemical Oceanography, Department of Marine Biology, Microbiology and Biochemistry, Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics, and Department of Physical Oceanography. 
• The School of Marine Sciences has a library that is regarded as one of the largest marine science libraries in Asia and a research vessel for coastal water studies.
• The school has academic interactions with other universities and research institutes in India and abroad.

Apart from this, there is also CUCEK in Kuttanad, also known as the Pulincunnoo campus. So, if you get selected into civil engineering, then you will be studying in SOE which is inside the main campus.

Yes, IIT Bhubaneswar is worth it to pursue civil engineering. Although it is a new name among IITs, it’s doing quite well. According to NIRF Ranking 2019 IIT Bhubaneswar was ranked at 26 among the engineering colleges all over India. It’s a popular belief that there is not much placement opportunity available for civil engineering students in India. And most of the students from this starts to prepare for non-core placements from the very beginning of their courses. But this is not the case for IIT Bhubaneswar. Past placement records suggest that 70% of the civil engineering students got core placements. Placement record for 2019 in IIT Bhubaneswar shows a total of 89% students from civil engineering got placement offers. During placement, the average salary package offered to civil engineering students is 10 LPA. The highest salary package offered even went up to 39 LPA over the years.

Students of this IIT have opportunities to do their internships in R & D organizations and in many foreign Universities. For summer internship program, students of IIT Bhubaneswar visited organizations such as ABB Ltd, Amazon, Microsoft, Aditya Birla Group, Airbus Group, India HINDALCO Industry, AIIMS Bhubaneswar, Bharat Dynamics Ltd, NTPC, PNB, Metlife, Wipro, BSNL, Jaipur Metro, BHEL, Vizag Steel Plant (RINL), DRDO, Mahindra & Mahindra, Jindal Stainless Steel.

So, yes, civil engineering at IIT Bhubaneswar is worth it as it will provide you with good placement and internship opportunities.