Which IIT is better for mechanical engineering - IIT Gandhinagar or IIT Bhubaneswar?

IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Gandhinagar have an average placement percentage of 80%-87%. Students can take admission after qualifying the JEE Advanced/JEE or GATE entrance exams. The highest salary offered at IIT Gandhinagar in 2019 was 40 LPA, whereas that offered to IIT Bhubaneswar students was 43.3 LPA.

The following tabulation highlights the prominent features of Mechanical Engineering at both IITs.

Other factors of importance, when choosing between the two are as follows:

Admission Process:

• In addition to this, JEE Advanced/JEE or IIT Jam/GATE is the qualifying exam.
• A 5% relaxation is available to SC, ST categories, and 10% of seats are reserved for the GEN-EWS category.

Faculty and Campus Highlights:

• Both institutes have extensive libraries, hostels, 3D Printing labs, Cadcam labs, but IIT Gandhinagar has a Green Shuttle service, and auditoriums with seating capacities of 150, 300, and 650.
• Core subjects like IC Engines and Power Plant Engineering are well taught at IIT Bhubaneswar.

Placement Statistics

• The Mechanical Engineering department of IIT Bhubaneswar saw 80% placements and 40% internships in 2020 with the lowest salary of INR 5 LPA and an average salary of INR 7-8 LPA.
• A total of 89 companies visited IIT Bhubaneswar in 2020 with 51% recruitment for core engineering industries through companies like L & T Construction, Tata Steel, and Renault Nissan.
• More than 70 companies visited IIT Gandhinagar in 2019, the top recruiters, have been Goldman Sachs, KPIT Germany, and HPCL.

The highest salary offered at the mechanical engineering department of IIT Bhubaneswar was 39 LPA paid by companies such as Tata Steel, Tata Motors, ISRO, and Deloitte.