NIT Rourkela and NIT Srinagar both are among the country's largest and premier institutes.

NIT Srinagar Kashmir was awarded Outstanding Engineering Institute (North) Award by Dhanik Bhaskar in 2013 and is considered the premier engineering institute in northern India.

NIT Rourkela has 6 academic centers and 9 centers of research, which have also received Centres of Excellence from external Government agencies. This institute has a Technology Incubation Cell (TIC), where major corporate houses will set up their product and units in a scholastic environment.

Academics:

Both the NITs offer BTech courses for Civil Engineering and the admission is through JEE Mains.

• In 2019 the closing cutoff for Civil at NIT Srinagar was 76890.

• In 2019 the closing cutoff for Civil at NIT Rourkela was 17939.
   

Placements:

• The civil engineering branch at NIT Srinagar has a placement rate of 50-60%, with L&T and PSUs as major recruiters.

• The placement percentage for NIT Rourkela is 90%, with L&T being the greatest recruiter. Internship opportunities are also wide-ranging for core fields.

• Some of the major recruiters at NIT Srinagar are Vedanta, Capgemini, Wipro, Maruti Suzuki, Ircon, Tata Construction, L&T, Gammon India, PSUs, etc.

• L&T, TATA, IOCL, Vedanta Tata Sail Future First, Shapoorji Pallonji, KEC International, Amdocs, Deloitte, Akash Institutes, Amazon, Zomato, etc are the top recruiters at NIT Rourkela.

The placement statistics for 2019-20 at the two institutes are as follows.

Infrastructure:

• NIT Srinagar has above average mess, classrooms, and functional labs. The university also has a medical center with an ambulance service. An open Wi-Fi facility with good speed is also available.

• NIT Rourkela has the best of its kind infrastructure. It has LAN and hostel services along with a well-equipped library that has state-of-art technology. The food quality at the canteen is also good.

Faculty:

• At NIT Srinagar, more than 90% of faculty members are Ph.D. holders from IIT and IISC. Their focus is on the upgraded course curriculum.

• Faculty members at NIT Rourkela add multi-disciplinary subjects as per the industry trends. They also provide for research-oriented studies and discuss practical problems of industry. The course curriculum designed by them also undergoes improvement from as per time.

NIT Rourkela has an old reputation in the engineering arena, while NIT Srinagar has a good faculty department. A student should also take into consideration the place accessibility while choosing between the two.

LD College of Engineering is affiliated with Gujarat Technological University (GTU) and is also overlooked by the Department of Technical Education, Govt. of Gujarat. Civil engineering is a discipline of technical engineering concerned with the layout, implementation, and restoration of the natural and dynamically created climate. Through valid scientific research, mathematical and statistical methodologies, it offers the necessary skills and knowledge to design, evaluate, develop, predict, and implement the project.

Admission:

• The department offers a BE program, Postgraduate courses in Water Resources & Management and Structural Engineering, Transportation Engineering, and a part-time course (Civil Engineering).

• The department accepts GUJCET for the BE and GATE score for MTech.

• BE students require 10+2 with a minimum of 45% in aggregate. For ME students need graduation.

Facilities:

Some of the laboratories of the department are Water Resources Lab, Concrete Laboratory, Structure & Heavy Structures Laboratory, Soil Laboratory Material Testing Laboratory, and Computer Laboratory (AMD)

Placements:

• Mahindra, Tata Power, Reliance, The Linde Group, Essar, and GACL are some of the top recruiters of students in the civil engineering department.

• In the year 2019, 21 students received job offers from numerous companies.

• The average placement rate of the department is 85%.

• Over 2244 students have been successfully employed in the last four years from which 95 were from the civil department. In 2019, 565 students received placement offers from the 111 recruiters on campus.

Civil engineers have always been actively involved in transportation infrastructure, industrial plants, dams, airfields, marine ecosystems, environmental services, and manufacturing facilities. It is essential that the student makes their academic choices keeping in mind the college, faculty, department, placement prospects, and campus facilities.

BITS Pilani, ranked 30th by NIRF amongst top engineering colleges in India, is very well renowned for electrical engineering and is also considered to be the best private institution. While IIT Tirupati was recently established and hasn’t been ranked yet by NIRF.

ADMISSIONS:

BITS Pilani

• For BE, a student must have 10+2 with 75%. For ME, a degree in BE/BTech with at least 60%.
• The entrance exam BITSAT is for BE Hons candidates whereas BITS HD for ME candidates.

IIT Tirupati

• A student must have 10+2 with 75%, to be eligible for BTech.
• For MTech, IIT graduates with a CGPA of 8/10 or above can apply with valid GATE scores.
• The candidates need to secure a rank in the range 4000-5000 in JEE Advanced

FACILITIES:

BITS Pilani

• There are 15 labs on the campus under the electrical department. Some of these are Embedded System, Power Electronics, Virtual Instrumentation, Analog & Digital Electronics, etc.
• LKM Travel Grant is available for EEE students to attend conferences of repute for their research work.

IIT Tirupati

• There is Materials Lab, Geotechnical Lab, Transportation Lab, Surveying Lab, Water Resource Lab, etc.

FEES AND INTAKE:

PLACEMENTS:

BITS Pilani

• 82.08% was the placement percentage for EEE.
• The highest international package for BE was INR 98 LPA.
• The highest domestic package for EEE was INR 44 LPA.
• The average package offered was INR 14.6 LPA.
• The top recruiters are Wipro, Amazon, Cognizant, Qualcomm, Apple, Oracle amongst 150 others.

IIT Tirupati

• The recruiters were Genpact, OYO, TCS, Levadata, L&T amongst 30 others.
• The notable recruiting sectors include core engineering, IT sector, analytics, consulting, and R&D companies.
• The highest package of IIT Tirupati in the year 2019 was ?22 LPA and the average package ?9.18 LPA.
• In civil engineering, the average placement rate was 75%

BITS Pilani is considered to be a premier engineering institute and EEE students have higher opportunities and lucrative offers compared to civil at the present time. IIT Tirupati being a newly established college has still to offer a lot more facilities in the coming years. Hence, it is up to the individual to make an informed choice.

Delhi Technological University (DTU) and MNNIT Allahabad have numerous opportunities for the students opting to do civil engineering. DTU has an upstanding ranking record as it was ranked at #2 in Best Technological Universities in India by Times Engineering Survey and #34 by NIRF. MNNIT on the other hand was ranked at #14 in the Top Public colleges in India 2020 by India today and #19 for B.Tech in India 2019 by The Week.

A comparison is presented below to explain the factors to be considered while choosing civil engineering course from these two universities:

Admission Criteria:

• DTU – Admission into DTU is granted based on 10+2 results and JEE Main exam results. The university gives 40% weightage to CBSE results and 60% weightage to JEE Main scores. Students applying in this college need a minimum of 60% marks in aggregate of Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics along with English being one of the main subjects.
• MNNIT Allahabad – students require a minimum of 75% with science stream in their 10+2 results or feature among the top twenty percentile. Further, for selection JEE Main scores are considered.

Campus Placement:

• DTU – the placement cell of DTU has a stellar record by achieving 100% placement in the previous years. Outlook India ranked DTU as #1 college in the placement category. In 2019, 323 companies visited DTU and the highest package offered was a whopping 1.02 Cr. (INR).
• MNNIT Allahabad – a total of 285 companies visited MNNIT’s campus for recruitment in 2019 and out of the eligible 1174 students, 792 were placed.

Scholarships offered:

The University of Delhi offers certain scholarships to DTU students such as-

• Inder Kohli and Anand Kohli Scholarships to the students passing Senior Secondary School Examination with first division marks
• Pandit Man Mohan Nath Dhar Scholarship for undergraduate financially weak students

When it comes to placement and scholarship opportunities, DTU does have a certain edge and MNNIT has an edge in terms of lower course fees. But eventually, all the factors relevant in an individual case need to be analyzed before selecting in between these two universities.