Sadly no. NIT Agartala is nowhere near the top NITs. To understand this better, let’s divide all the NITs into 5 levels

• Level 1:  NIT Trichy, NIT Surathkal, NIT Warangal, NIT Allahabad
• Level 2: NIT Nagpur, NIT Calicut, NIT Rourkela
• Level 3:  MNIT Jaipur, NIT Bhopal, NIT Surat, NIT Durgapur
• Level 4: NIT Silchar, NIT Kurukshetra, NIT Agartala, NIT Hamirpur, NIT Raipur, NIT Jalandhar, NIT Jamshedpur, NIT Patna, NIT Srinagar
• Level 5: All the new NITs founded in or after 2010

So NIT Agartala falls in the 4 category. The main reason for its poor reputation is its location in the North East. It’s also the reason why it does not get much limelight despite being a very established engineering college and one of the old NITs.

In the basics, you have three types of electives they are,

1. Humanities (famous courses like PAVA, Gita, and Globalization)
2. Discipline (like Data mining and machine learning for CS)
3. Open Electives (This can include electives offered as Discipline, Humanities, or Management.)

Key points to be noted while selecting the electives

• Grades – Some electives, like humanities, with higher median GPA will help you increase your CGPA
• Interest – Basically, you need to give importance to your interests. If you choose humanities out of interest, then you can expect a good score
• Jargon – If you are not interested in continuing with your selected elective option, then you have the option to withdraw, which won’t affect your CGPA. You also have the choice to substitute or add on based on your preference

As far as I got to know from my friend studying there, DOMS IIT Madras is a good institute. Also, DOMS IIT Madras is certainly better than the new IIMs. There are some reasons behind it, which I am going to share with you.

He shared one experience about an IIM Bangalore guy who was given a project to collate existing data from all the possible data streams in the function and generate a report out of it. But he was too lazy to work upon it and was not given any offer.

And after this one case, IBM finance never went to IIM Bangalore for internships ever since.

My personal experience is that IIT Madras is in fact comparable to IIM Indore and Kochi if not better; surely much better than new IIMs.

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) is not considered the worst university but surely has many flaws. These include the following:

• The syllabus is more than a decade old and the rate at which technology and science are growing, VTU is failing to catch up. 
• The evaluation process is very poor. There is a very high chance that your marks will increase every time you apply for revaluation. 
• VTU is one of the largest universities in India with 212 colleges affiliated with it. Most of the colleges have below-average laboratories, campus facilities, research centers, and poor placements.
• Students graduating from these institutes score less marks and thus lose placement opportunities.
• VTU’s standard of faculty is really low.

One of the things that bother aspirants is the reservation system. If you are an SC/ST belonging to the state of Karnataka then you have no problem in getting a good college with little effort through CET. If you are a general candidate then everything depends on your work.

Yes, IIIT Delhi is very strict in the sense that it ensures every student gets to nurture their talents equally here and enter the competitive world. It does not shy away from making the students work hard to prepare them for a bigger purpose. 

The subsequent semesters bring in more workload and the strictness also increases. Additionally, it follows the Plagiarism Policy forbidding students from copying any assignment or labs from their peers or from the internet. Students therefore have to be thorough with their concepts and cannot rely on others. After every small interval of time that may be weeks or days of getting deadlines.

So yes, IIIT Delhi is definitely very strict compared to many colleges.