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:
NIT Warangal:
IIT Bhubaneswar:
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
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.
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:
Faculty and Campus Highlights:
Placement Statistics
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:
Faculty and Infrastructure:
Placement:
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.
IIT Bhubaneswar CSE is better. It is an older institute with a bigger alumni base. According to the highlights of IIT Bhubaneswar placements 2022, CSE had an average CTC of INR 22.40 LPA. While the highest CTC received by the student of the branch was INR 44 LPA. The placement rate was INR 98.15%.
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.