Mining Engineering at IIT-BHU is quite good. The Mining Branch in IIT-BHU came into existence in 1923 as a section of the Department of Geology. Later in 1944 separate Department of Mining Engineering was formed. It is one of the oldest and biggest Mining Engineering branch of India.

The course structure of mining is a combination of mechanical, electrical, electronics, earth sciences, computer science, and physics. The department has 6 well-equipped laboratories. The faculty is qualified and well-experienced in their field.

A lot of companies visit the campus placement drive every year such as Coal India Limited, Tata Steel, Vedanta, Hindustan Zinc, Jindal, etc. The Placement stats show that in 2019 the Highest package for the mining branch at IIT-BHU was 31 LPA and the average package was 12 LPA. Apart from the core recruiting companies, there are also placement options in non-core companies that visit the campus. Almost 95% of students from the Mining batch get placed every year. In 2019 placement drive a total of 85 students from the Mining batch got placement offers.

Metallurgical Engineering at IIT BHU is the first and largest in Asia. The department offers bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree programs. The eligibility criteria for pursuing a B.Tech in metallurgical engineering are at least 75% in 10+2 with JEE advanced and the course fee is INR 2.28 LPA for first-year. In 2019 the JEE Advanced closing cutoff rank at IIT BHU was 6026.

The department has a dedicated group of highly qualified faculty who are well-experienced in their respective fields and most of the faculty members are actively engaged in various research and consultancy projects. The department has 13 labs and a workshop well-equipped with state-of-art instrumentation.

IIT BHU has an excellent placement record for almost all departments. In 2019, 71% of the students got placements in many MNCs. For metallurgical engineering 44 students got placement offers out of 47 students who registered. The average package for metallurgical engineering was around INR 9 LPA. The top recruiters were Microsoft, Uber, Oracle, Flipkart, etc. Many students also receive internship offers in international institutions like Harvard University, Yale University, University of Tokyo, etc.

IIT BHU offers a decent MTech program in Industrial Management. The MTech programs at IIT BHU are multidisciplinary and research-oriented and the course curriculum is designed to meet the industry requirements. There is a huge exposure for higher education in industrial engineering management in the domain of supply chain management, operation research, inventory management, etc.

All the manufacturing and engineering companies offer jobs specifically to industrial engineers. Some of them are TATA Steel, Tata Motors, Reliance Industries, Maruti Udyog. There are also other companies like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, etc. to name a few that offer jobs. Government organizations like BSNL, ONGC, ISRO, etc. also offer jobs with handsome packages. The average package offered in 2019 campus placement was between 10 LPA to 58 LPA.

IIT BHU is among the top Engineering colleges in India. NIRF 2020 has ranked IIT BHU in the 11th position for BTech. The average placement rate for all branches at the institute is 71%.

Electronics Engineering:

From the Electronics Engineering department at IIT-BHU, almost 95% of the students get placed each year. Placements of Electronics are par with Computer Science Placements.

• The average package for Electronics is around 14 LPA.
• Core companies that offer placement for Electronics students are Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Qualcomm, Intel, Sony, LG Electronics, Texas Instruments, Cisco, Philips Semiconductors, Toshiba, etc.

Electrical Engineering:

The Electrical Department has very good placement records over the years. In last year’s placement, around 90% of the students from the department were placed.

• The average package received was around 11-12 LPA.
• Core recruiting companies visiting for recruiting ElectricalPGCIL, IOCL, HPCL, Trident, Reliance, Maruti, etc.

Besides this all the Non-Core Sector Companies in the domain Analytics, Business, Management, Consultancies, etc. offer jobs in both departments but some software companies are open only for Electronics but generally overall companies visiting the campus for Electronics and Electrical Engineering are nearly the same. Hence according to the statistics, the placements of the Electronics Department are better than the Electrical Engineering Department.

Making a choice between two different institutes offering two different courses is always difficult. Both NIT Durgapur and IIT BHU are reputed institutes and offers decent placement, so choose according to the branch you are interested in.

NIT Durgapur is a prestigious institute among the NITs of India. It ranks 47 among the engineering colleges in India according to the NIRF Rankings 2020. The placement statistics of 2019 at this institute revels, the CES department had a placement rate of 88.64%, and 78 students out of 88 got placed. The average CTC offered was around 9.09 LPA.

NIRF ranked IIT BHU at 11 among the engineering colleges. IIT BHU also holds a decent placement record. In 2019 campus placement a total of 49 students got placed from the Ceramic Engineering Department. The average CTC ranged around 10 LPA to 58 LPA. Besides core companies, students can also sit for software companies that come for placement in this institute which is an added advantage.

Being an IIT, IIT BHU offers certain perks but as a course, CSE has better scope than Ceramic Engineering.