Being ranked in 11th position for engineering in India by NIRF 2020, IIT BHU offers a five-year Integrated dual degree course in Mathematics and Computing which is one of the most demanded courses at IIT BHU.

IIT Indore has been ranked 9th among the best engineering colleges in India by NIRF. The institute offers a B.Tech degree in CSE which spans for four years in contrast with a B.Tech in Mathematics and Computing from IIT BHU.

Given below are a few of the key information about both the institutes.

Admission:

IIT BHU:

• Aspirants must clear JEE advanced with a good percentile in order to get admission at IIT BHU in mathematics and Computing dual degree course.

• Candidates from the general category had a cutoff with opening and closing rank of 991- 1410 respectively in 2019.

IIT Indore:

• Similar to IIT BHU, students aspiring to get admission at IIT Indore for B.Tech CSE must clear JEE advanced.

• Candidates from the general category must score JEE advanced ranking from 601-1020.

Placement statistics:

IIT BHU:

• Overall 52 companies participated in the recruitment process this year offering 762 job offers in total.

• The batch of 2019-20 experienced amazing placement records with Mathematics and Computing branch grabbing the average package of 21.94 LPA with 80% of students being placed in top recruiting companies.

• The highest domestic CTC offered at IIT BHU in 2020 was 1.06 CPA while the highest international package was 1.59 CPA.

IIT Indore:

• 160+ companies took part in the recruitment process in 2020 making 578 job offers.

• 90% of the students got placed with an average package of 22.92 LPA. This rate increases to 96% when we individually consider CSE branches.

• 58LPA is the highest domestic CTC offered this year. With 2 international offers, the highest International CTC is 72 LPA

The deciding factor here is which branch are you most inclined towards. If your plan is to pursue masters abroad and you are interested in CSE you will not go wrong with IIT Indore. If your priority is mathematics and if you aim to go for a Ph.D. further, it's feasible to opt for this dual degree course as it saves a year. Ultimately it's up to you, your passion and interest.

According to the latest industry trends, Electrical Engineering has more demand than Civil Engineering. However, pursuing Civil from a premiere Institute like IIT Kanpur makes it an option to consider.

If you have a keen interest in civil engineering, or you have plans to go for higher studies, do research or opt for civil services, you can choose Civil from IIT Kanpur. According to the placement trends for the academic year 2019, over 85% of students got placed from IIT Kanpur and the average CTC offered was around 11 LPA.

Electrical engineering offers a lucrative career, better future career growth, and needless to say, more core jobs than civil engineering. In terms of curriculum, IIT BHU offers a wide variety of Industry relevant optional subjects for Electrical. Electrical Engineering students receive higher packages, sometimes on par with the CSE students. Students are also offered jobs in a diverse domain, like Core, coding, FMCG, consulting, and Finance & Accounting. The placement highlights for IIT BHU last year reveal a total of 88 students got placed from Electrical Engineering and the average package ranged between 10 LPA to 58 LPA. Electrical Engineering would provide a better peer group as it is one of the most opted courses at IITs, and there is stiff competition to grab the course and then subsequently, a good job.

Based on the above factors, the suggestion would be to make an informed and wise decision by considering all the factors.

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.

Ceramic Engineering Department :

• About the Department: The Department is pursuing research in the emerging areas of glass, glass ceramics, refractories, electronic ceramic, cement, pottery, and porcelain. Research papers are published in reputed national and international journals. Many R&D projects of this department were sponsored by AICTE, DST, CSIR, and UGC.
• Course Structure:Some specific properties of ceramic materials lay the foundation for many applications in electrical, chemical, and mechanical engineering.
• Placements:Placements are good as the average package is nearly 10 lakhs. Apart from core jobs, students go for jobs in non-core fields like analytics, Management, and Consultancy too. In the 2019 placement drive 43 students from the Ceramic department got placed.

Mining Engineering :

• About the Department:It is one of the oldest and comprehensive mining engineering departments in the country. It came into existence in 1923, as a section of the Department of Geology, Mining, and Metallurgy. This department was one of the first few departments in the country to receive UGC Assistance under COSIST and SAP Programme in 1984.
• Course Structure:The course structure of mining is a combination of courses from mechanical, electrical, electronics, earth sciences, and even computer science departments. Physics and machine knowledge is involved.
• Placements: Placements are usually good. Students are offered both core and non-core jobs. The non-core jobs are usually from finance, marketing, analyst, coding. 85 students got placement from Mining last year.

Pharmaceuticals :

• About the Department:The courses are designed to impart knowledge on various aspects of drug design, development, testing, and safe and effective use of drugs/medicines, including drug delivery systems.
• Course Structure:This program includes subjects like medical chemistry, biology, microbiology, biochemistry, jurisprudence, management, pharmacology, pharmacognosy, technology. The course is pervasive and makes one ready for advancing in the field of medicine despite being an engineer.
• Placements:Top recruiters from this branch include Dr.Reddy's laboratories, Matrix Laboratories, United Health, Evaluserve are regular visitors. Apart from that, students have a lot of options for non-core employment in marketing, finance, coding, analytic, etc. A total of 39 students got placed from Pharmaceutical Engineering.

There are not many discriminations in the facility between BHU and IIT BHU students as such. However, there might be a few things that would become observable in the coming years. That would be the infrastructural progress of the IIT’s campus, and that’ll purely be because the Govt. issues a separate fund to all the IITs and the University doesn’t come under that clause. Also, being an IIT, it has to show significant improvements facility-wise in order to remain an institute of that stature. For example, the indoor sports complex of the IIT campus will be a world-class facility for the sport-enthusiasts. Also, there are a couple of hostels under construction, and they’ll be facilitated with the latest technology, and that won’t be the case for any other hostel on the University campus.

The average package depends upon the branch in which you are studying, and it’s generally more for CSE (Computer Science), MnC (Mathematics and Computing), ECE (Electronics) and EEE (Electrical). This is due to the reason many of the students go for software profile jobs and are being paid high from this branch. This doesn’t mean that other branch students don’t get good placements, many students of other branches are very well placed and as similar as these above branches. The trend of placement in IIT BHU shows students who go for software profile jobs (it doesn’t depend on your branch, almost all students do coding) get good packages.

Now coming to placement statistics, in December 2019, 4 students had got international offers and remaining also got very good placements. Out of 1063 students registered for the placements, 762 got very good placements in the first phase. Also, 172 students had got PPO (Pre-Placement Offer).