NIT Rourkela and NIT Srinagar both are among the country's largest and premier institutes.

NIT Srinagar Kashmir was awarded Outstanding Engineering Institute (North) Award by Dhanik Bhaskar in 2013 and is considered the premier engineering institute in northern India.

NIT Rourkela has 6 academic centers and 9 centers of research, which have also received Centres of Excellence from external Government agencies. This institute has a Technology Incubation Cell (TIC), where major corporate houses will set up their product and units in a scholastic environment.

Academics:

Both the NITs offer BTech courses for Civil Engineering and the admission is through JEE Mains.

• In 2019 the closing cutoff for Civil at NIT Srinagar was 76890.

• In 2019 the closing cutoff for Civil at NIT Rourkela was 17939.
   

Placements:

• The civil engineering branch at NIT Srinagar has a placement rate of 50-60%, with L&T and PSUs as major recruiters.

• The placement percentage for NIT Rourkela is 90%, with L&T being the greatest recruiter. Internship opportunities are also wide-ranging for core fields.

• Some of the major recruiters at NIT Srinagar are Vedanta, Capgemini, Wipro, Maruti Suzuki, Ircon, Tata Construction, L&T, Gammon India, PSUs, etc.

• L&T, TATA, IOCL, Vedanta Tata Sail Future First, Shapoorji Pallonji, KEC International, Amdocs, Deloitte, Akash Institutes, Amazon, Zomato, etc are the top recruiters at NIT Rourkela.

The placement statistics for 2019-20 at the two institutes are as follows.

Infrastructure:

• NIT Srinagar has above average mess, classrooms, and functional labs. The university also has a medical center with an ambulance service. An open Wi-Fi facility with good speed is also available.

• NIT Rourkela has the best of its kind infrastructure. It has LAN and hostel services along with a well-equipped library that has state-of-art technology. The food quality at the canteen is also good.

Faculty:

• At NIT Srinagar, more than 90% of faculty members are Ph.D. holders from IIT and IISC. Their focus is on the upgraded course curriculum.

• Faculty members at NIT Rourkela add multi-disciplinary subjects as per the industry trends. They also provide for research-oriented studies and discuss practical problems of industry. The course curriculum designed by them also undergoes improvement from as per time.

NIT Rourkela has an old reputation in the engineering arena, while NIT Srinagar has a good faculty department. A student should also take into consideration the place accessibility while choosing between the two.

These three NITs are oldest and top notch, on the basis of NIRF rank NIT Rourkela is place in top 19 position but in another way NIT Allahabad (MNNIT) is the 1st NIT in India which offer engineering program in computer science so their alumni strength much higher than other NITs.

Tabulated below are the course highlights as provided by both the institutes:

Faculty:

MNNIT has excellent faculty members as compared to NIT Rourkela (22 faculties) and NIT Durgapur (15- 20 faculties) which are about 30 teaching staffs having experience in various fields of computer science.

Eligibility:

The eligibility criteria is but similar for three of these national institutes:

Cut-off:

Placement

MNNIT and NIT Raurkela are providing the average salary of 15.1 LPA whereas the recruiters at NIT Durgapur are offering an average salary package of about 9.09 LPA. So this means the MNNIT and NIT Raurkela at the placement level are better than NIT Durgapur.

IIT Hyderabad and NIT Rourkela are one of the best engineering colleges in India. If we have a look at their rankings, IIT Hyderabad stands at 8th rank according to NIRF and between 600th-650th in the QS rankings. According to NIRF Engineering ranking 2020, NIT Rourkela stands at 16th position. For IIT students need to qualify for JEE Mains and get a good score in JEE Advanced. Admission into NITs is purely based on the rank obtained in the JEE mains.

Eligibility:

Eligibility criteria remain the same that is 10+2 in the science stream with an aggregate of 75% + JEE Mains/JEE Advance.

The cutoff for different specializations at the institutes is as follows.

Faculty:

• IIT Hyderabad has a total of 222 experienced faculty among then 98% are Ph.D. holders.

• NIT Rourkela has a total of 330 faculties and more than 20000 alumni guiding students in every field.

Facilities:

• IIT Hyderabad has a massive area of 576 acres that include well-developed laboratories, semi-furnished hostels, a common dining hall, a digital library, and transport services.

• NIT Rourkela has a gigantic area of 647 acres that include a computer center with the latest research facilities, a couple of cafeterias, and a total of 11 hostels.

Course fees:

The course fees of both the colleges are a bit higher, because of the world-class facilities they provide.

Placement:

IIT Hyderabad:

• In the recent placement drive, the highest package offered at IIT Hyderabad was INR 60.41 LPA and the average package was INR 23 LPA.

• 325+ offers were made to students from different branches.

NIT Rourkela:

• 909 offers were made to the students at NIT Rourkela.

• The highest package offered was INR 42 LPA which was bagged by a student from the CSE branch.

• The placement percentage was more than 95%.

Students do not face any financial obstacle during their course of study as these colleges offer scholarships in various fields. Students also get guided by their teacher for higher studies and in the field of research and development. As for which will be better, that depends on various factors, the most important of them is the course you want to pursue. So, choose according to your convenience.

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.

All these institutions are well known for their engineering stream. NIRF 2020 has ranked IIEST, Jadavpur University, NIT Durgapur, and NIT Rourkela in 21, 17, 47, and 16 for Engineering. Let's compare these on the basis of placements and ranking which may help you to make the right option.

Admissions: Admission to MTech programs at these institutes are based on a valid GATE score and the prerequisite for admission is BE/BTech with more than 55% marks from a recognized university.

Placements: Infosys, TCS, Wipro, and Amazon, Microsoft, Maruti, HSBC Technologies, IBM, L&T, Capgemini, Future First,etc. are among the top recruiters at the institutes.

Based on the above stats you can decide which institute to choose accordingly. If we see the rankings issued by NIRF (National Institute Of Rankings Framework) then it is clearly visible that all of these institutes are among the top 50 engineering institutes of India. The admission criteria to M.Tech Courses at these is via GATE examination rank. On the basis of all these listed comparisons, hope that you will be able to choose the best option.