My friend is a third-year CSE student at NIT Warangal. These are his tips to enhance your programming skills during your summer holidays-
These tips are useful for CSE freshers from all colleges and universities, and not just NIT Warangal.
According to the reviews online, NIT Warangal is much better than NIT Rourkela. It is among the top 3 NITs in India. Warangal has the best CSE and ECE departments. They have a 100% placement record.
NIT Rourkela is also good but not in the same league as Warangal. NIT Rourkela has increased in popularity in recent years and is currently in the league of NIT Allahabad, Jaipur or Calicut. Its main disadvantage is its location and extremely strict attendance rules. But the infrastructure of NIT Rourkela is getting better each day. Due to its location some of the top recruiters do not prefer visiting the college.
The most important thing that makes NIT Warangal better than Rourkela is its moderate course fees and the brilliant placement record.
Categories | NIT Rourkela | NIT Warangal |
Course Fee | INR 6.4 lakh | INR 5 lakh |
Placement Percentage | 70-85% | 95-100% |
Highest CTC | 21 LPA | 28 LPA |
Average CTC | 6.3 - 7 LPA | 15 LPA |
Recruiting Companies | Pepsico, TCS, Wipro, Infosys, etc. | Tech Mahindra, KPMG, Goldman Sachs, TCS, etc. |
Thus, choosing NIT Warangal seems to be a better option than going for NIT Rourkela.
For 1st year M.Tech students at NIT Warangal, classes are held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. There are no classes on Saturday. You will get a lunch break of two hours, from 12 noon to 2 p.m. The classes are of 1 hour each, so there are 7 slots- from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and then from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. The morning slots are filled with theoretical classes. For any 3 days a week, you will have 2 labs and 1 seminar (one among them for a single day), for a 3-hour duration. These are scheduled in the afternoon slots. On the remaining 2 days when you have no labs or seminars, you will mostly have 1 or 2 theory classes in the afternoon slots. The chances are low, but you might also have no classes in these slots.
There are no classes during the 2nd year. So you have all the time to complete your M.Tech thesis. But you need to regularly update your guide on your progress. You may occasionally be asked to take the labs of your M.Tech juniors or the B.Tech students.
The most important thing is that you have to sign on the department register before a set time each day, during the weekdays. This is to give your attendance for the day. You will have to do this for both years in order to receive stipends.
This is the complete class schedule for an M.Tech at NIT Warangal.
The Dean (Academic) at NIT Warangal released an official notification on 27th January, 2022. This notice mentions the conversion system which can be used by organizations and companies to calculate the percentage of NITW graduates.
As per the notification released by the Dean (Academic) on 27-1-2022, the formula for CGPA to percentage conversion for all NIT Warangal graduates is-
Percentage= (CGPA- 0.5) * 10
The companies and organizations that require the percentage of NITW graduates can use this formula for conversion of the grades from CGPA.
Choosing between CSE and ECE is a matter purely based on personal inclinations. While one branch may be good for you, it may not be for someone else, and vice versa.
However, in terms of both academics and placements, NIT Warangal clearly has the upper hand. NIT Warangal is among the top 3 NITs and is better than NIT Calicut in almost every aspect. Its laboratory facilities and faculty are among the best.
Particulars |
NIT Calicut CSE |
NIT Warangal ECE |
Placement % |
100% |
90% |
Students Placed |
148 |
135 |
Highest CTC |
INR 67.62 LPA |
INR 52.89 LPA |
Lowest CTC |
- |
INR 7 LPA |
Median CTC |
- |
INR 21.4 LPA |
Average CTC |
20.54 LPA |
INR 23.6 LPA |
Although NIT Calicut has an edge in terms of the highest CTC, NIT Warangal's average package beats it. Average packages are a better means of evaluating the placement scenario, and that being said, NIT Warangal is a better option.
Civil is about learning and getting skills rather than getting placed with good packages. India is in desperate need of qualified civil engineers. Not every Civil Engineering graduate is skilled enough and yet is employed as an engineer leading to failure of structure and accidents. So your primary goal is to be knowledgeable and skilled rather than running after placements. There is also a huge scope of research outside India. Here are the placement statistics of the Civil Engineering branch of NIT Surathkal
Placement Percentage |
74.44% |
Median CTC |
INR 12 LPA |
Ultimately, bear in mind that you won’t be earning much initially as a civil engineer but with the passage of time you will earn a lot in terms of money and respect both.
You can try for a branch change at NIT Warangal. It is not that easy; you need to be consistent in your studies throughout the year. Students with a good CGPA only have the chance for a branch change. All the branches are excellent at NIT Warangal, so do not worry about the faculty and placement. Chemical Engineering is a broad field that will open up ample opportunities in the future
IIT Roorkee, NIT Trichy, and NIT Warangal are well-established institutes in India. The scope of metallurgy is comparatively lower than that of CSE. IIT Roorkee mainly concentrates on textual learning and does not give the students exposure to practical learning. They are using the practice of mugging up the lessons without having a clear understanding of the topic. The placement is very poor here; the students from the metallurgy department usually end up in data analytics and coding.
So CSE at NIT Warangal and Trichy would be a better choice.
IIIT Hyderabad is one of the highly reputed engineering colleges almost at or with NITs and IITs. It is a unique IIIT as the first I in IIIT Hyderabad stands for International and not national. There is intense competition here to grab CSE seats as the program is highly regarded among prospective CS engineers.
If you want an excellent career in CS, IIIT Hyderabad may be the right place for you!
NIT Trichy, NIT Warangal, and BITS Pilani are all good colleges for CSE. Here is a comparison among them based on various parameters-
At BITS Pilani, Tech students were offered a package between INR 11 - 38 LPA. At NIT Trichy, the highest package overall stood at INR 40 LPA for the year 2022. From these figures, one can declare that at present NIT Warangal has the best placements for CSE among the three (as per the official figures).
Overall, all three colleges are quite good for your CSE. In the end, it is you who has to put in the required effort.