IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT Guwahati, and NIT Warangal are among the top-ranked institutions of India. IIT Guwahati has been ranked 7th both in Engineering and Overall category in NIRF India Rankings 2020. NIT Warangal is the first amongst the 30 NITs established in the country and ranked 19th in Engineering category in NIRF India Rankings 2020. IIT Bhubaneswar is among eight new IITs and stood at 22nd rank among the Engineering colleges in India as per NIRF 2020 rankings. 

These are highly prestigious institutions and highly preferred institutions for placements among top global and Indian corporates to hire professionals. Civil engineering being the core branch of engineering here are some placement stats of these institutions.

Placement

IIT Guwahati:

• It has achieved an overall placement record of 65.28% for all programs in 2020.
• The placement rate of civil engineering is 81%.
• The highest salary of the institution is 1.5 crore while the average salary is 11 LPA according to the placement statistics of 2020
• The top recruiters of the Institute are ISRO, BEL, GAIL, POSCO, L&T, Tata Power, IOCL, and many more. 
• Under the Branch of M.Tech. a total of 15 out of 71 students had been placed from the department of Civil Engineering( transportation and water resource)

NIT Warangal:

• It has achieved an overall placement record of 80% for all programs in 2020.
• Every year more than 120+ companies visit the campus for placements.
• The highest salary of the institution is 43.33 LPA while the average salary is 12.15 LPA according to the placement statistics of 2020.
• According to statistics of 2019, The placement rate for civil engineering is 82%.
• The average placement package offered to the Civil department in 2019 was 6.29 LPA, with the highest package going up to INR 18 LPA.
• Top recruiters are Bajaj, L&T, Coromandel, Welspun, IRON, Shapoorji, Tata, and many more.

IIT Bhubaneswar:

• It has achieved an overall placement record of 87% for undergraduate and 65% for graduates in 2020.
• The placement rate of civil engineering is 62%.
• The highest salary of the institution is 43.33 LPA while the average salary is 15.8 LPA according to the placement statistics of 2020.
• The placement rate for civil engineering in 2019 was 89%. 
• Top recruiters L&T, Tata Power, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Texas Instruments, Hindalco Industries, DRDO, ONGC, HPCL, BPCL, IOCL, and many more.

Hence according to the statistics, IIT Guwahati has better placements when compared to others and when it comes to MTech sequence is IIT Guwahati, NIT Warangal, and then IIT Bhubaneswar.

• IIT Bhubaneswar's core engineering branches saw a placement average of 80.6% for BTech students and around 60% for MTech students, out of which, the Electrical Engineering branch saw a 100% placement record in 2020. Similarly, IIT Madras's Engineering Design branch saw an 83% placement rate in 2019.

  The table below highlights the essential differences between all these programs:

  Parameters	IIT Bhubaneswar Mechanical Engineering	IIT Bhubaneswar Electrical Engineering	IIT Bhubaneswar Civil Engineering	IIT Madras Engineering Design
  Institute Ranking (NIRF)	22	22	22	1
  Placement Percentage	80%	100%	62%	83%
  Campus size (acres)	936	936	936	620
  Fees	INR 12.14 LPA	INR 2.14 LPA	INR 2.14 LPA	INR 75,000 - INR 2.12 LPA
  Package Range	INR 11-40 LPA	INR 11-40 LPA	INR 11-40 LPA	INR 7-26 LPA
  Total Seats	51	22	21	52

  Other factors which are noteworthy are as follows:

  Admission Requirements

  Faculty

  Department Infrastructure

  • IIT Bhubaneswar core engineering branches' requisites are JEE-Advanced or GATE. Students require 75% marks in 10+2 and 60% in graduation.
  • IIT Madras offers two dual degree programs; B.Tech. in Engineering design and M.Tech in automotive engineering or biomedical design, with M.Tech in Robotics as an option.
  • Students require JEE Advanced qualification/ JoSAA counseling for BTech and a CGPA of 8.0 or above from an IIT for MTech.
  • The Engineering Design department at IIT Madras has 18 Ph.D. holding faculty members.
  • The mechanical engineering department has 19 faculty members; the core engineering branches have 20-26 faculty members who have received awards like the 2020 DUO-India Professor Fellowship Award.
• Both institutes have hostels and 14-20 labs relevant to the subject like IC Engine, Machine, and Mechanism, CWF laboratory, Engineering Design workshop, etc.

  • Academic and Placement Facts

    At IIT Bhubaneswar, the Electrical Engineering department saw a placement rate of 100% followed by 80% of Mechanical Engineering and 62% for Civil Engineering with the highest CTC of 43 LPA offered to a BTech student and the average package of 15.8 LPA.

    • IIT Madras's Engineering Design department has a Graphic Art Studio.
    • The department of Engineering Design at IIT Madras is the only interdisciplinary department in the country with a focus on form design and functional design.
    • There is a compulsory industry internship for 6-months as a part of the dual ED program.
    • In 2019, the Engineering Design program saw the highest CTC offered, as INR 26 LPA and the average CTC offered was INR 7 LPA.

Hyderabad School of Chemistry

The university is accredited by NAAC with ‘A’ grade and approved by the AICTE and UGC. The eligibility criteria for MSc in chemistry is a BSc with a minimum of 60% marks in aggregate with Chemistry as one of the subjects, preferably with a combination of Physics and Mathematics. The selection of the program is done based on the performance of the candidate in a test conducted by the institute. The fees required for this course are INR 10,710 for the first year.

There are around 33 highly qualified faculty members for the Department of Chemistry and the lab of the department is well-equipped with state-of-art sophisticated analytic instruments.

The university invites numerous companies for campus placements. Maximum students of MSc Chemistry chose to work in research labs and educational fields. Some also go for higher studies. The average package offered is around INR 6 LPA.

IIT Bhubaneswar

IIT Bhubaneswar intakes students into the MSc Chemistry programs based on their performance in IIT JAM and the minimum eligibility criteria is 55% marks in bachelor’s degrees. The course fee required is INR 84,460 for the first year.

The institute has a dedicated group of highly qualified faculty members and all of the faculty holds PhDs in their respective disciplines.

According to the placement statistics of 2019, a total of 70% of the students got placement from the PG courses. The average placement package offered to the students of MSc Chemistry was around 6.5 LPA. The recruiting companies were Amazon, Adobe, CapGemini, Oracle, Infosys, etc. The PSU’s like ISRO, IOCL, HPCL, NCCBM also participated in the campus placement drive.

Hyderabad University provides great exposer for research and future employment opportunities in various R&D and Government sectors. Between Hyderabad University and IIT Bhubaneswar, the former would be a better choice for pursuing a M.Sc in Chemistry.
 

IIT Bhubaneswar and DTU are both well-reputed institutes for engineering in India. Between the branches, COE offers more opportunities as compared to ECE. However, you should choose the institute based on the branch you are interested in.

IIT Bhubaneswar is considered among the top engineering colleges in India. NIRF has ranked IIT Bhubaneswar at 17th among the engineering colleges. Admission to the ECE program at the institute is done based on the performance of the student in JEE Advanced and the minimum eligibility criteria for admission is 75% aggregate in 10+2. The course fee is 2.14 lakhs (1st-year course fee).

ECE is a new branch in IIT Bhubaneswar. The first batch of ECE graduated in 2020. Before 2016, electrical engineering was a combination of EEE and ECE. In 2020, 97% of the students from ECE got the placements in many top MNCs.The average CTC offered was INR 15.8 LPA. However, the highest domestic CTC offered was around INR 43.3 LPA.

DTU is ranked 2nd and 34th as the best technological university as per TES and NIRF. The admission to the program is done on the basis of the performance of the student in JEE Mains. The course fee for COE at DTU is 1.66 lakhs (1st-year fee).

According to the placement statistics of 2019, a total of 122 students of COE got placement offers. The highest CTC offered to the COE students was INR 40.63 LPA.

Your first decision must be the subject and choose the institute based on your subject of interest. As all of the above-mentioned choices have their own significance.

Economics at IIT Kharagpur

Total fees of the B.Sc. + M.Sc. Economics is INR 3.94 lacs. The faculty-student ratio here is 1:19. A B.Sc. + M.Sc. Economics graduation degree from IIT Kharagpur is of great value.

IIT Kharagpur has a reputation for its placements. In 2019-20, few students secured offers for more than INR 1 crore per annum. At the beginning of phase 1 of 2019-20 placements which started on December 1, around 1300 students had received job offers. The average package offered was INR 15 lacs per annum. Around 200 companies including Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, and Honeywell visited the college.

Electrical at IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Mandi

A B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) degree will cost INR 7.91 lakhs at IIT Bhubaneswar, whereas, INR 8.3 lakhs at IIT Mandi.

The faculty-student ratio at IIT Mandi is 1:8, whereas at IIT Bhubaneswar there is a shortage of faculty.

The average package offered to a student of IIT Mandi was INR 13.5 LPA. The placement rate is around 82%. The average package at IIT Bhubaneswar was INR 11.4 lakhs per annum. The placement rate here was 86%.

89 companies including Amazon and HP visited IIT Bhubaneswar in 2019. A total of 112 offers were made at IIT Mandi in 2019 including offers by Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, and Robert Bosch.

Civil at IIT Guwahati and IIT BHU

Civil Engineering at IIT Guwahati costs INR 8.59 lakhs, and at IIT BHU it costs INR 8.67 lakhs.

In 2018-19, a total of 250 companies visited IIT Guwahati. The placement rate for civil engineering was 77%. The highest package offered was INR 1.5 crores. International companies like Microsoft and Uber were the major recruiters.
A total of 52 companies visited IIT BHU last year. The placement rate was 71%. The highest package offered was INR 1.53 crores. The major recruiters included EXL, Wipro, Tata Steels, Oracle, and Maruti.

You may talk to the seniors before choosing the college. The decision must be made based on your subject preference and keeping all these facts into consideration.

According to the 2019 NIRF Rankings, ISM Dhanbad is ranked 15th whereas, IIT Bhubaneswar has been ranked 17th among the engineering colleges in India.

The closing rank of IIT Bhubaneswar for ECE was 3456 - 5690 while for ISM Dhanbad the closing rank for ECE was 4464-7853. It is observed that the students prefer IIT Bhubaneswar over ISM Dhanbad for ECE.

Regarding the placements, the first batch of IIT Bhubaneswar ECE graduates this year so there is no previous placement record yet. The average package for other departments of IIT Bhubaneswar was around 11 LPA. For ISM Dhanbad the highest package offered in 2019 for the ECE branch was 39 LPA and around 60% of students got placed from the ECE department.

Both IIT ISM Dhanbad and IIT Bhubaneswar offer good ECE programs with decent placement records so choose according to your convenience.

• IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Gandhinagar have an average placement percentage of 80%-87%. Students can take admission after qualifying the JEE Advanced/JEE or GATE entrance exams. The highest salary offered at IIT Gandhinagar in 2019 was 40 LPA, whereas that offered to IIT Bhubaneswar students was 43.3 LPA.

  The following tabulation highlights the prominent features of Mechanical Engineering at both IITs.

  Parameters	IIT Gandhinagar	IIT Bhubaneswar
  Ranking (NIRF)	24	22
  Fees	INR 2.59 LPA	INR 2.14 LPA
  Average package	INR 8.96 LPA	INR 8.5 LPA
  Campus size (acres)	400	936
  Total Seats	14	22

  Other factors of importance, when choosing between the two are as follows:

  Admission Process:

• IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Gandhinagar expect students to have 75% or above marks with Physics, Chemistry and Maths in 10+2 for BTech in Mechanical Engineering. Similarly, 60% or more is needed in graduation for MTech admissions.
• • In addition to this, JEE Advanced/JEE or IIT Jam/GATE is the qualifying exam.
  • A 5% relaxation is available to SC, ST categories, and 10% of seats are reserved for the GEN-EWS category.

  Faculty and Campus Highlights:

• IIT Bhubaneswar has 19 Ph.D. holding faculty members in the School of Mechanical Sciences and IIT Gandhinagar has 14 faculty members and 2 Guest Faculty members from the University of Texas and University of Notre Dame.
• • Both institutes have extensive libraries, hostels, 3D Printing labs, Cadcam labs, but IIT Gandhinagar has a Green Shuttle service, and auditoriums with seating capacities of 150, 300, and 650.
  • Core subjects like IC Engines and Power Plant Engineering are well taught at IIT Bhubaneswar.

  Placement Statistics

  • The Mechanical Engineering department of IIT Bhubaneswar saw 80% placements and 40% internships in 2020 with the lowest salary of INR 5 LPA and an average salary of INR 7-8 LPA.
  • A total of 89 companies visited IIT Bhubaneswar in 2020 with 51% recruitment for core engineering industries through companies like L & T Construction, Tata Steel, and Renault Nissan.
  • More than 70 companies visited IIT Gandhinagar in 2019, the top recruiters, have been Goldman Sachs, KPIT Germany, and HPCL.

  The highest salary offered at the mechanical engineering department of IIT Bhubaneswar was 39 LPA paid by companies such as Tata Steel, Tata Motors, ISRO, and Deloitte.

• The Naval and Architecture Engineering program at IIT Madras is offered in 8 to 10 semesters through BTech and BTech+MTech dual program levels. The department holds weekly events on hydraulics, motion stabilization, and centrifugal force. Both IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Madras admit students who qualify for the JEE exam.

  The table below highlights the differences between the two IITs based on ranking, campus, average package, etc:

  Parameters	IIT Bhubaneswar Mechanical Engineering	IIT Madras Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
  Institute Ranking (NIRF)	22	1
  Placement Percentage	80	98
  Campus size (acres)	936	620
  Fees	INR 12.14 LPA	INR 8.82 LPA
  Package Range	INR 11-40 LPA	INR 9 LPA
  Total Seats	51	18

  Here is an overview of other highlights of both programs and IITs:

  Admission Requirements:

  • IIT Madras Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering admissions are based on rank obtained in the JEE Advanced exam and JoSAA counseling.
  • IIT Bhubaneswar Mechanical Engineering admissions are based on scores of JEE/JEE Advanced or IIT-Jam/GATE exams.
  • Both institutes require students to have 75% marks or above in 10+2 with PCM.

  Faculty and Infrastructure:

• The Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at IIT Madras has 27 faculty members for the BTech and dual degree programs.
• • IIT Bhubaneswar's Mechanical Engineering department has 19 faculty members and runs more than 20 labs for the program, including the Sense and Process Laboratory, Heat Transfer Laboratory and Fluid Mechanics Laboratory.
  • IIT Madras's centre for innovation (CFI) is a student's lab for innovation funding in any field.

  Placement:

  • Students in the Naval and Architecture Engineering program get employed by the Indian Navy, ISRO, HAL, ADA, Larsen, and Toubro, etc.
  • The highest domestic CTC offered to NAOE candidates at IIT Madras in 2019 was 48.8 LPA and the highest international CTC offered was USD 129,500 in 2018.
  • 7 alumni from different departments manage the placement cell at IIT Madras.
  • The Mechanical Engineering program of IIT Bhubaneswar saw an 80% placement rate in 2020 with an average salary of 12.80 LPA by companies like Mahindra and Mahindra, Infosys, and GE India.

  Foreign Internships and research opportunities with John Hopkins University, University of Melbourne, Amazon, and Texas Instruments of up to 6 weeks-10 weeks are offered to students of the naval engineering program during winter and summer breaks.

As your choice of the branch is different it’s difficult to choose which will be the better choice. You should choose the branch you are more interested in and the institute which offers the batter program for that branch. Metallurgical engineering is a sub-branch of Mechanical engineering, whereas Civil is a core branch and have more option for higher studies. However, the employment opportunities for both branches are almost the same.

NIRF ranked IIT Bhubaneswar 17th in the engineering category. The department of Civil Engineering, the Scchool of Infrastructure at IIT Bhubaneswar have 8 laboratories well-equipped with modern facilities to carry out academic projects and research works. In 2019 the JEE Advanced closing cutoff for Civil Engineering was 7054-14844.

According to the placement statistics, 89% of civil engineering students got placements in 2019. The average package for civil engineering was INR 11.51 LPA. Core companies that visited the campus for employing Civil Engineering students were HPCL, IOCL, L&T.

IIT Indore is ranked at 13th place in NIRF 2019. The institute offers a good Metallurgical Engineering program with decent placement. In 2019 the JEE Advanced closing cutoff for the Metallurgical Engineering branch was 9795.
Around 99% of the students got placements in 2018-19 at IIT Indore and the average package was INR 16.5 LPA. Whereas, the highest package was around 43 LPA. The top companies that participated in the placement were HPCL, Honda, Bharat Petroleum, etc.