Which is a better option, 4 years of electrical at IIT Bhubaneswar or 4 years of ECE at BITS Goa?

Of all the core engineering branches, the Electrical Engineering department at IIT Bhubaneswar saw a 100% placement rate in 2020. The ECE program at BITS Goa began in 2019 and had a placement rate of 80%.

The table below shows the essential parameters of selection for the institutes:

Some important points to be noted are as follows:

Merit-Based Admission Process

• Both IIT Bhubaneswar and BITS Goa admits students who have 75% or above marks in 10+2 with PCM for BTech or 60% and above for postgraduate programs.
• Students need to submit the BITSAT or GATE score as an eligibility criterion for the BITS Goa ECE program; JEE/JEE Advanced or IIT-Jam/GATE exams determine admission prospects into IIT Bhubaneswar.

Special Facts

• The new ECE department of BITS Goa receives major offers from VLSI companies like Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Nvidia, STMicroelectronics, ARM, Intel, etc. The highest package offered recently was by Qualcomm and Nvidia at INR 16 LPA.
• The Goa location makes BITS Goa a popular choice for students.
• Meritorious students applying to BITS Goa, receive 10%-25% scholarships for a single semester.
• There are 28 faculty members in total, divided between departments at BITS Goa. The Electrical Engineering department at IIT Bhubaneswar has 19-20 Ph.D. holding faculty members. Both institutes receive faculty from abroad.
• IIT Bhubaneswar saw a placement package spike of 13.4% from 2019's INR 11 LPA to 2020's INR 15.8 LPA. The highest CTC offered in 2020 was 43.4 LPA and major recruiters were PSU's like Oil India Limited, HPCL, etc and MNCs like TCS R and D, Mahindra and Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki, etc.

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; the data for the ECE program at BITS Goa is low due to the fact that the first placements are still being conducted.