Yes, students can avail themselves of the scholarships. The college provides some amount to the toppers of each branch based on their ranks(CGPA) under the scholarship from GAABESU(Global Alumni Association of Bengal Engineering and Science University) office. Merit-Based Scholarship is given to departmental toppers for subsequent years too.

Not only for the toppers, but scholarships based on the financial status is also provided by the college to help such student. Also, Book-grants are available which helps you get books for every semester. You can avail of these scholarships from the GAABESU office on the campus.

If you are needy or meritorious, you will get a scholarship. So work hard and try to get good marks.

The first thing that you should note is that IIEST offers a dual degree program. It's a 5-year M.Tech program and not the conventional 4-year program.

• Be clear of what your goals are and choose your friend circle according to it. For Example, if you love programming then find a senior who is doing coding and learn from his experience.
• Make it clear in your mind that CGPA matters the most. It is not easy to score marks in Shibpur and hence you have to study a lot.
• Be a team player. There are so many societies in the college and you SHOULD join them. This would make you aware of what's happening around you, help you build connections.
• Don't be worried about Ragging, It doesn't exist.
• Studies are not that easy and lectures are sometimes boring but you have to self-study and also manage time for honing your skills.
• Shibpur is not as famous across the nation as it is in West Bengal.
• It's the 2nd oldest college in the nation and hence has a vast alumni network.
• Upon becoming IIEST, the vibes in the college would change completely. There would be more budget for everything and confidence fo student would also increase. The quality of education would increase
• Placement opportunities at IIEST are not that great but the situation should improve in the near future. 

Don't lose focus, try to stay motivated and find like-minded people. 

Choosing the college depends upon personal preference. If you have any skill for either of the subjects, go for it irrespective of the institute. Both of the institutes are good and will provide you with tremendous opportunities. 

The table shows a brief overview of the institutions.

However, if you don’t have a subject preference then here are few things that you should consider.

• Electronics as a specialization has got a booming market, which is demanded to create a lot of jobs presently.
• IIEST, becoming accredited with central status i.e Institute of National Importance, receives central government funding, as compared to state government funding for Jadavpur University. Therefore the infrastructure of IIEST is way better than Jadavpur University.
• IIEST now admits students from all over India, so you will get to interact with students from all over the country. This will boost your learning experience a lot.

Overall, if you need to decide between the given two choices then you should opt for Electronics at IIEST.

You will definitely like going to IIEST Shibpur. It is a very nice college and you will like the vibe there. Try not to bunk your classes as there is a minimum 75% attendance policy and they also link marks to your attendance in the end semester exams. You will settle into the workings of the college within the first one or two months of the first semester itself.

As far as the faculty is concerned, the teachers are quite cooperative and will let you enter the class even if you are a few minutes late. Do have a valid reason though. On the other hand, a few teachers are quite strict and will not listen to you at all and will want you to attend all their classes especially those from the electrical engineering department.

If you are concerned with the curfew timings, you have enough time till 11 pm to enter your hostel and can roam the campus till then. You can go anywhere you’d like within campus and get to know more about its heritage and just appreciate the overall beauty of the place. However, carry your ID card wherever you go. 

All in all, you will have a great time at IIEST Shibpur and will definitely make good memories there.

If you consider the institutional ranks, then IIEST is always ahead of most of the NITs in India. Besides, the core branch and its placement statistics are also better in IIEST. 

But in the case of IT and CSE, NIT Durgapur grasps a better position than IIEST. However, IIEST is not so behind, and there is a chance that IIEST will surpass its positions in the next 3 years for the subjects CSE and IT. It can be mentioned that the faculties of IIEST are also better than all of the NITs.

If you are planning for higher studies, then IIEST Shibpur would be a better choice. You will be associated with great professors as well as students from not only India but abroad as well.

However, if you are not getting your desired subject in IIEST, you could go for NIT DGP.

Any college can be good for competitive programming. It all relies on you to educate yourself, to learn new strategies, and to spend hours coding. 

• Anudeep Nekkanti is one such example. He was recruited by Google and qualified for ACM ICPC world finals. If you look at the name of his college, it's not one of those elite ones. 
• There was no competitive programming pattern in BESU/IIEST until recently. But many students have taken competitive programming platforms such as Codechef and HackerRank over the last few years.
• You can search the Codechef Rating System site to verify it for yourself. You get a college-wise database of the number of students actively engaged in competitive coding and their results using this platform.

Lastly, don't support the myth that the only way to prove yourself as a coder is competitive programming. There are other coding fields as well. In this sense, do not consider that there was no "real coder" in IIEST because there was no competitive coding pattern previously in IIEST (BESU back then). 

Some of the alumni of the institute are working in top companies in India and overseas and have never been interested in competitive coding.

IIEST is accepting admissions only for BTech degree from 2017, and you will get an option to prolong with Dual Degree course or study only BTech.

IT is one of the finest Dual Degree Courses in this institute, considering both the placement statistics and academics.

Additionally, the IT department of IIEST has the best researchers. This department publishes approximately 3000+ research papers, as per NIRF 2016 counting. However, the research is conducted mainly from the areas of Signal Processing, ML, and core computing areas.

If you are considering placement, you must look at the following table, although there are many IITs and NITs who claim that they give better placement.

However, the IT students here get several esteemed internship opportunities in IIT KGP, GSoC, IIT M, IIT B, IIIT A, and Abroad. One of my friends told me that one of his batch mates (a 3rd-year student) got selected by Google to complete his internship in California (this type of opportunity is very hard to get, especially from a country like India).

Thus, it can be mentioned that IT is one of the promising streams to be studied from this institute that is IIEST.