Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology has been ranked 18th for Private Engineering by India Today Rankings 2020. The college offers B.Tech in Information Technology as a four-year course. The fees for the same is 4.69 Lakhs for the full period.

St. Fransis Institute of Technology is affiliated to the University of Mumbai. The college offers B.Tech in Information Technology as a four-year course. The fees for the same is 5 Lakhs for the full period.

LNM Institute of Technology (LNMIIT) is a deemed university and has been recognized by UGC and approved by AICTE, ARIIA and AISHE. It has been accredited ‘A’ grade by the NAAC. The college was ranked 57th for private engineering by India Today and 77th for Engineering by The Week. The college provides Communication & Computer Engineering as a four-year course at a fees of 12.36 lakhs.

Admission Procedure

• MSI:The minimum eligibility criteria for the course is having cleared 10+2 examinations with 50% aggregate. Further, students are selected on the basis of rank secured in IPU-CET, the common entrance examination for IPU colleges. The course has a total of 180 seats available.
• SFIT: The minimum eligibility criteria for the course is having cleared 10+2 examinations with 50% aggregate. Further, students are selected on the basis of rank secured in MHT-CET. The college offers 120 seats for the course.
• LNMIIT: The eligibility criteria for candidates for ECE is 60% marks in their 10+2 examinations. Candidates are further selected on the basis of their score in JEE Main. The college offers 120 seats for the course.

Infrastructure & Facilities

MSI:

• The college is built over an 8-acre campus and is home to a well-equipped library which includes journals, study material, magazines and various e-learning facilities. 
• The college provides boys and girls hostels and sporting and art & cultural facilities available. 
• Other facilities such as an auditorium, gym, and cafeterias are also available to the students.

SFIT:

• The college is built over a 5-acre campus and provides in-campus hostels. 
• Sporting facilities, laboratories, cafeterias, gym facilities, and shuttle service for students is provided by the institute.

LNMIIT:

• The college is built over a massive 100-acre campus and provides in-campus hostels. 
• Sporting facilities, laboratories, cafeterias, a gym, Wi-Fi facilities, recreation rooms, medical facilities and shuttle service for students is provided by the institute.

Placements

• MSI:The course has a placement rate of 80%. Top recruiters include Wipro, TCS, Amazon, Infosys and Google. The average offer received by students is 5LPA. The highest package goes up to a whopping 20LPA.
• SFIT: The course has a placement rate of 80%. Top recruiters include L&T, Capgemini, TCS and Wipro. The average offer received by students is 3.5LPA. The highest package goes up to 14LPA.
• LNMIIT: The course has a placement rate of 95%. Top recruiters include Amazon, Oyo, Uber and Adobe. The average offer received by students is 10LPA. The highest package goes up to a whopping 36LPA.

All 3 colleges stand toe-to-toe with one another, being the top private MBA institutes in the country. The colleges have a similar admission procedure. LNMIIT has a bigger campus, costlier fees structure, better placement packages, and rankings compared to the other two. However, MSI and SFIT are much cheaper and provide decent placements. A choice among the three depends upon the importance of each parameter for the student.

NIT Warangal, was amongst the first 10 NITs to be established, ranks 19th for engineering by NIRF while IIT Hyderabad is ranked 17rd by NIRF. Both these institutes are centres of excellence in academics and have cut-throat competition.

Campus

• NIT Warangal: Tie-up with TCS, CPRI, Siemens to provide industrial training to students. The Teaching-Learning Programme, helps in development for both students and faculty.
• IIT Hyderabad: It has technology incubators in collaboration with universities from across the globe to help innovative ideas come to the fore and succeed.

Placement 

NIT Warangal

• The average placement rate of the institute was recorded to be 94%
• Highest CTC offered was 39 lpa
• Average CTC offered was in the range 10-12 LPA
• Major recruiters are Amazon, Flipkart, ISRO, Oracle, etc.

IIT Hyderabad-

• The overall placement rate of the institute was 95%
• Major recruiters were Bank Of America, DRDO, Flipkart, HSBC, among 20 others
• Highest CTC of 42 lpa
• Average CTC of 16 LPA

It is very tough to distinguish between these colleges as these are premier institutes of the nation. Infrastructurally they are almost at par with all facilities available. Faculties are highly qualified, few being involved in many government funded research projects. Hence, it is up to the student to choose a given course in a particular college.

NIT Nagaland has a NIRF 2020 rank of 67 and NIT Rourkela has a rank of 19 in the engineering category. NIT Nagaland is an autonomous institution recognized by AICTE and UGC whereas NIT Rourkela is a government institute and a deemed university.

Admission-

To be eligible for admission, students are expected to have passed 10+2 with a minimum of 75% along with their JEE Main score.

• For NIT Rourkela, for programs like B.Tech, the total fees are in the range of Rs. 3 Lakhs to Rs. 9 lakhs.

• At NIT Nagaland, the total fees for programs like B.Tech lie in the range of Rs. 1 Lakh to Rs. 4 lakhs respectively.

JEE Main cutoff 2019 -

• NIT Rourkela - For the PE branch it was 6540 and 9210 as the opening and closing rank respectively for General category students from other states. For reserved categories, the opening and closing ranks were 923 and 3148 respectively.

• NIT Nagaland - For the CSE branch it was 14369 and 18706 as the opening and closing rank respectively for General category students from other states. For reserved categories, the opening and closing ranks were 1338 and 5352 respectively for students from other states.

Placement -

• For the year 2019, a total of 909 students were placed in NIT Rourkela.

• NIT Nagaland conducted the 2019 placement drive wherein 22 students were recruited from various departments. The highest CTC worth Rs. 10.5 LPA was bagged by the CSE department students offered by Allstate.

• For NIT Nagaland, Allstate, Power Grid, Lakshaya, Vedanta, L&T, Toppers, Mphasis, were the top recruiters.

• The major recruiters for NIT Rourkela were Amazon, Bajaj, Microsoft, Ford, Larsen and Toubro, Pepsico, Wipro, Tata Steel.

For the year 2019, the placement statistics for the two institutes were as follows.

• At NIT Rourkela, the PE department got a total of 80 job offers. With the highest CTC of Rs. 11 LPA and the average CTC was Rs. 6.53 LPA.

• At NIT Nagaland, the CSE department was offered the third-largest number of offers, which was 5. The salary packages offered were in the range of Rs. 3.75 LPA to Rs. 10.5 LPA.

An informed choice needs to be made by reviewing the above facts and your perception of the college brand along with the ROI which is on average 93% for NIT Rourkela, and 191% for NIT Nagaland.

For engineering Kalinga University Raipur is ranked at 42 (NIRF), Amity University Noida is at 32 (NIRF), Jain University Bangalore is at 117 (NIRF) and Manipal University Jaipur is at 24 (India Today). Every college offers a different student experience and to help you understand better, let us have a look at the basic points of difference in order to make a better choice in terms of selection of course and college.

Admission:

• Admission to the IT Btech program at Kalinga University is based on 10+2 results and KIITEE scores. The annual course fee is 4.92 lakhs.

• A minimum score of 70% in Maths, Chemistry, and Physics in 12th is required for admission to the BTech CSE program at Amity Noida. It also conducts a Short video interview. The course fee for the first year is 3.11 lakhs.

• Admission to IT BTech at Manipal University is based on MET results or JEE rank and academic scores. The fee is 3.19 lakh per year.

• Admission is based on the results of the Jain Entrance Test (JET) for CSE Btech at Jain University. The annual course fee is 1.6 lakh.

Placements:

Within the IT department, Kalinga University observes a placement rate of 40% whereas Manipal University Jaipur offers a placement rate of 60%.

For the CSE departments, Amity University Noida offers a 100% placement rate and Jain University offers a placement rate of 94.9%.

The given list of academic institutions are all within the same league in terms of education and placements and are considered to be part of the tier-3 list of colleges in India.

KLE Technical University provides quality education focusing on recent trends in computer science. Also in terms of faculty and placement facilities of KLE technical university is much better than the NMAM institute of technology which is an autonomous engineering college in NITEE. Many companies are offering jobs with good salary packages at KLE technical university.

Faculty

• NMAM: The institute has 318 teaching staff with 120 research scholars working in various research institutes.

• KLE technical university: The department of computer science engineering at KLE technical university has the highest number of faculty members which are around 55 faculty members with more than 10 years of teaching experience 

Placement records

Here the placement record is also good for CSE students at KLE technical university than NMAM institute of technology, NITTE. Every year around 100 companies are coming to hire talented students and are offering good salary packages.

KLE Technical University:

Microsoft, Amazon, SAO lab, BEL, Nokia, Walmart lab, TATA Hitachi, Samsung, Amagi, IBM, Analog devices, etc. Number of selected candidates and salary package details;

• Amazon AWS offered the highest salary package of 30 lakhs per annum.

• Microsoft, Amazon, and Analog devices offered above 15 lakhs p.a.
• A total of 192 students have been placed in CSE and the process is still ongoing. 
• In 2019, the department placed 204 students with reputed companies.

NMAM Institute of Technology:

Sony, Informatica, Nokia L&T, Bharat electronics, TATA Hitachi, HP R&D, TATA motors, Tally, Tejas network, IBM, INSZoom, TATA insurance, etc. Salary package description provided below;

• Total 217 students were selected through placement while 7 students also got internship offers
• Robert Bosch has selected 50 students and a salary package of 14 lakhs per annum.
• Walmart offered 14 CTC.
• Microsoft, Amazon AWS, SAP labs, Akamai provided 9 LPA.

The placement statistics of KLE technical university reveals that undoubtedly KLE technical university is the best option among these two institutes.

NIT Manipur ranks 158th for BTech by NIRF 2020. It is recognized by UGC and AICTE. It has a 300+ acres campus area. It has a faculty strength of 70 members most of them being highly qualified and PhD holders.

NIT Agartala is ranked 75 for BTech by NIRF 2020. The institute has a strength of 3101 students and a highly qualified faculty of 2450 members. 

NIT Meghalaya ranks 61st for BTech by NIRF 2020. 104 students were placed in the 2018-2019 placement program conducted by the institute. It is accredited by AICTE.

Admission Requirements - 

• Applicants should have at least 75% in their 10+2 qualifying exams with PCM with a valid score in JEE Main.
• For MTech applicants 60% in BTech or BE is required with a GATE score.
• Selection will be based on the rank obtained in the entrance exams.

Placements 

NIT Manipur 

• 20 companies visited and 50 students were placed through the placement program.
• The companies are Microsoft, Wipro, Accenture, Infosys, IBM, Capgemini, Adobe, HSBC, TCS, Zolacode, Lamzing Infosystem, Virtusa, etc.

NIT Agartala

• 22 companies participated in the placement program.
• 188 students were placed.
• The recruiting companies include Accenture, IBM, McAfee, Google and Morgan Stanley.

NIT Meghalaya

• 80 companies participated in the placement program.
• 103 offers were made.
• Top Companies like Accenture, Wipro, Infosys, Bosch, Vedanta, Cortex, Sapient, Polaris and many more participated in the placement program of NIT Meghalaya.

Facilities 

NIT Manipur 

• They have 2 boys and 1 girls hostel with sports grounds, courts and healthcare facilities.
• The campus has a central library.
• It also consists of an ATM.

NIT Agartala

• The institute has a faculty of 239 members, 160 of them being PhD holders.
• There are 6 boys hostels and 2 girls hostels.
• The campus also includes a canteen, an ATM and a Bank. They also have necessary medical facilities.

NIT Meghalaya

• It has a 300 acres of campus area.
• They have a faculty of 93 members 85 of them being PhD holders.
• They have a central library, computer centres, state of art classrooms, healthcare and sports facilities.

Students pursuing ECE can work as Electronics Engineer, Field Test Engineer, Network Planning Engineer, Electronics and Communications Consultant, Research and Development Software Engineer. CSE will provide more scope due to the rapid development and growth of the corporate world and IT sectors. There is a constant demand for CSE graduates by many top companies.

FISAT Kochi has been ranked at 96th for Engineering among Indian Engineering colleges, SCMS Cochin has been ranked 85th, Rajagiri ranked 83rd and Mar Baselios (MBCET) is ranked in the bracket of 100-125 among Indian Engineering colleges. All the above colleges are NAAC ‘A’ grade accredited colleges.

Admission Process:

• Admission to the FISAT BTech program is based on the scores obtained inKEAM/JEE Main, followed by counselling, and admission to the program through management quota is based on the rank in the merit list.
• At SCMS Cochin, admission is through counselling based on rank obtained in Kerala Engineering, Architecture, Medical (KEAM), and the same is for the Management quota.
• For Rajagiri, admission is through counselling based on the rank obtained in KEAM. Remaining seats will be filled by the Institute based on the marks obtained in 10+2.
• At MBCET, admission is through counselling based on the rank obtained in KEAM. Remaining 50% Management quota seats will be filled on the basis of entrance test and 10+2 marks (50:50)

The above colleges are compared on a categorical basis below:

Placements:

• Accenture, HCL, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, TCS, Wipro, Vodafone, are some of the top recruiters at FISAT Kochi. The college recorded 70% placement last year for the Mechanical batch.
• Some of the top recruiters of SCMS Cochin are- IBS Software, Infosys, HCL, Infoview, MRF, MU Sigma, Mytrah Energy, UST Global, Wipro, Tech Mahindra are the top recruiters. Around 80% students got placed last year at SCMS Cochin.
• Amazon, Bosch Ltd, Cognizant, Digital Core Technology, Experis IT, GES Infotech, IBM, IBS Software, Indian Navy, Infosys, ITC Infotech, Mahindra and Mahindra are the top recruiters at Rajagiri. The college provided placement to around 90% of the CSE branch last year.
• Accenture, Genpact, Microsoft, Infosys, MU Sigma, Wipro, IBS Software, UST Global are some of the major visiting companies at MBCET. The college recorded 60% placements for its last batch.