One of my friends was in the same situation last year. He got IIEST Shibpur Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Civil Engineering along with a rank of 1383 in West Bengal State Merit List of NEET for MBBS admission converted with a mark of 462. 

• In West Bengal State counseling he received R Ahmed Dental College in the 3rd round. 
• He refused the seat in KPC Medical College as he knew that his parents will not be able to pay his fees of 8 lakhs over 4.5 years. As he was not interested in Civil so he continued with Metallurgy and Materials Engineering.
• During his 1st semester, he again started preparing for NEET but figured out later that the course pressure at IIEST Shibpur is too much and with so much to study for NEET, he was just falling apart. 
• His CGPA was not good as it was only 8.67 and ultimately decided not to go for NEET as his father advised him to concentrate on IIEST and give up on his dreams of becoming a doctor. 
• It came as a shock but later he realized that preparing for NEET all over again alongside maintaining a proper CGPA at IIEST is doing more harm than good to his career. 
• He felt that he should have taken the drop in the beginning but he was not ready to take any risk and IIEST Shibpur being a renowned college he was not ready to leave it.

So, if you want to become a doctor and serve people and if it's the long-cherished dream of pursuing MBBS then you should leave IIEST and better prepare for NEET again. Different people will have different views regarding the decision of leaving a good college like IIEST but in the end, it completely depends upon your goals.

Computer Science & Technology is a stream that has continuously upgraded its placements year after year making it more preferable be it in undergraduate courses or post-graduate ones.

The highlights regarding the placements are given below:

• The total number of offered witnesses by the CST department was close to 105.
• Computer Science & Technology is one of the departments offering 100%placement.
• NIRF has also accredited that IIEST has the highest package after IIT Kharagpur in West Bengal.
• The institute offers good foreign internships in Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Mc. Gill University Canada, Technical University Of Dresden Germany, University Of Passau Germany, Linux Foundation and National Health Services (NHS).

The placement is therefore at par with the fees taken by the college and it also guarantees a good position in top multinational firms across the globe. The highest & average packages are decent enough in the respective stream.

The second-oldest engineering institute in the country is the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science & Technology, Shibpur (formerly named BESU and B. E. College). Since 2014, it has been listed as an Institute of National Significance like IITs or IISc by the Parliament's NITZER Act.

Courses Offered: 

This Institute offers 5-year full-time dual degree courses (i.e. 10-semester courses) in the following divisions of the undergraduate course.

• Engineering & Applied Mechanics in Aerospace
• Civil Engineering Business
• The Science and Technology of Computers
• Electrical engineering engineering
• Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication
• Informational Technology
• Engineering in Mechanics
• Metallurgy and Engineering Materials
• Engineering in Mining

The Institute also offers a 5-year full-time undergraduate course in Architecture on a regular basis.

The Integrated Dual Degree Five-Year Curriculum or program for the following Departments of Science and Humanities are funded by the Arch Program, as stated above.

• Chemistry 
• Physics
• Mathematics
• Earth Science
• Social Sciences and Humanities.

These departments have post-graduate and doctoral programs of their own. There are several specialized centers and schools offering PG and Ph.D. programs at this Institute.

It is mainly concerned with a naming convention and there is really nothing to it. If you take a look back at the history, the Computer science departments began somewhere around 1982 at both IIEST Shibpur and IIT Bombay. Both the colleges began with different names for the same department and have stuck to it over the years.

If you are only and primarily concerned with this naming, this difference in the name will not have any effect on the course content. You can rest assured about it.

A similar instance is that of BESU Shibpur. They used to honor graduates of engineering courses and the marks they provided were in percentages. This was not the case with a lot of other premier engineering institutes like NITs or IITs where the B. Tech degree is given on the basis of the grade point system.

All these minor differences are something that you do not need to be bothered about. These will definitely not tamper with your career in any way. CST is just the same as CSE.

There are several reviews about the Sen Hall of IIEST Shibpur from students who have spent their years in the hostel, stating the advantages and disadvantages. The points listed below give a brief idea about the kind of facilities and standard of living in the Sen hall.

• Separate rooms are allotted for every student resident. There are enough facilities provided inside every room, including a tube light, a bed, a table, a fan, an almirah, and a chair. Students can also use more than one almirah or table if they get one free lying across any corner of the hostel.
• There are arrangements for several indoor games, including carom and table tennis. The Sen hall also has a garden, where students can play short-pitch cricket or badminton.
• In the Sen hall, there is a good senior-junior relationship, where 3rd and 4th years stay. No report of ragging is evident from the Sen hall.
• The mess food is quite good, with the presence of supportive and caring mess staff. Students get to eat Biryani twice or thrice a month.
• The mess manager is allotted every month, which consists of both 3rd and 4th-year students. So, both the batches can decide the menu for the entire month.
• Since 2016, the provision of breakfast has been included in the mess.
• There are arrangements for common TVs, English and Bengali newspapers of several types, magazines, and employment news articles.
• The mess staff and hostel caretakers are very polite and helpful.
• Every year, there is a fresher’s party and a farewell party organized for the 3rd and 4th years respectively.

This is an overall view of the circumstance and events happening at the Sen hall in IIEST Shibpur.

I have a few friends at IIEST and based on what I heard I can say that conclusive developments are taking place at IIEST Shibpur for the CSE course. Projects under the supervision of esteemed faculty were introduced in the second year. The curriculum has been improved to become one of the best in India.

There are also visiting faculty from foreign universities such as Harvard and so on. At present, the faculty is working on projects worth crores.

Abroad Internships are available to CSE IIEST students as early as in the first year.

The CSE department at IIEST is now significantly better than that of top NITs. So in short, IIEST Shibpur CSE is the better alternative.

On papers, there is. Each floor has a Wi-Fi router or sometimes 2 Wi-Fi routers installed for the students and also there is 1 JAXB Wi-Fi installed at a common point amidst all the hostels for common access.

 But in reality, you would consider yourself lucky if you are in rooms like 01, 03 or 10, 11. These are the extreme most rooms on each floor and get good Wi-Fi connections with decent speed. If you get a room near to the router you might get a speed around 5mbps or sometimes even 10mbps with an average speed of 2mbps. But if you are not, then you have to depend on luck. Only when others are not using, you might get some decent speed around 1mbps.

Moreover, the college Wi-Fi blocks many sites. For example, you can’t open YouTube, till the afternoon. The library and departmental Wi-Fi are far better than the hostel ones. Sometimes, the CS and Chemistry dept. WiFi download speed reaches 100mbps.

If you are somehow not specific on what branch, then a rank up to 22,000 (other states) can be expected to safely accomplish a branch at IIEST, Shibpur. You require to obtain marks of about 150 - 160 in JEE Mains for that.

For home-state students, the closing cutoff is usually around 30000 in general. 

Cutoff: 

The recent cutoff trends at the institute are tabulated below.

My cousin’s JEE-Main score was 142, and the normalized score was 175. Since there is no normalization nowadays, a suggestion would be to work hard for the score. 

And, a score anywhere between 180 would give you a position in the stream of your choice, you can be confident about that. Hope this gave you an idea about the score required to take admission at IIEST Shibpur.

Most of the institutes do not allow students to change the department. But, IIEST Shibpur allows the students to change at the end of the first year of graduation.

The process of change is mentioned below:

• The first step to change is to fill the application form for a change of department.
• Change is allowed in the department based on CGPA.
• For this, you need to work pretty hard in the freshman year. You must secure a minimum of 9 CGPA. The interested students must be in the top 10% of the batch to be eligible for any change.
• Each department states its vacancy limits. If you have applied for a popular branch, your application for change might be rejected as many students will be ahead of you.

The first-year syllabus is the basics of all the departments. It explains the basics of computer programming, electronic engineering, and others to all freshers. The change crops down after one month of classes. So, the students need to catch up with the departmental changes.

IIEST offers an under-graduation course in engineering and architecture, but you cannot change your department if you are admitted to the architecture department. It is better to choose for architecture department carefully as there will be no change after opting for it.