Which is better NIT Jalandhar or Manipal University Jaipur?

NIT Jalandhar has academically established faculty members with most of them contributing as Scopus and Web of Science authors. On the other hand, Manipal University Jaipur has a Teacher Empowerment Center to assist the development process of faculty members.

NIT Jalandhar has 17 departments offering programs in Engineering, Technology, and Sciences; and MUJ has 5 faculties for Arts, Law, Design, Engineering, Science, and Management.

The table below highlights some the features of these universities through an overview:

Admission Criteria:

Students may note that both Universities favor merit and entrance based admissions.

• Undergraduate students are required to have 50% marks in 10+2 and 50%-55% for postgraduate programs.
• Exam scores of MET/ JEE Main/ JEE Advanced and NATA are required for undergraduate programs.
• CAT/ MAT/ XAT/ CMAT/ GMAT/GATE are needed to meet the eligibility criteria for postgraduate programs.

Students may take a look at the following campus and placement features of the institutions, in order to choose-

Infrastructure Facilities

• NIT Jalandhar has the following central facilities- Training and Placement Centre; Central Library; Central Workshop; Computer Centre; CCE and IIC.
• Apart from these, there's a seminar hall, transportation facility, State Bank and Canara Bank ATMs, Open Air Theatre, and 13 hostels.
• Manipal University Jaipur has a fully WiFi campus with 120 computers; a library; sports facilities for carrom, football, tennis, etc; canteen; amphitheater; hostels, and auditoriums.

Placement Facts

Manipal University Jaipur:

• It boasts of a 75% placement record for Engineering students and a 95% placement record for Non-Engineering students.
• In the academic year 2019-2020, 825 placements have been offered; with an average payment of INR 6.2 LPA and the highest package of INR 42 LPA. MUJ received visits from 27 Fortune 500 companies as well, like Amazon, Microsoft, etc.

NIT Jalandhar

• Last year, the highest package offered was INR 39.02 LPA by Adobe and Microsoft and the average package was INR 11.63 LPA.
• Placement percentages for ECE and CSE was the highest with 94.87% and 94.05 % respectively.

Both are Tier-3 colleges and students may choose based on the placement and professional prospects of the program chosen.