Which is better: CS at BIT Mesra or IT at MNNIT Allahabad, especially regarding placements?

Both MNNIT Allahabad and BIT Mesra are highly ranked technology colleges offering amazing placement opportunities to their students. NIRF and India Today ranked BIT Mesra at 38 and 2 respectively for its B.Tech course, whereas MNNIT was ranked at 48 for B.Tech in India 2020 by NIRF and 14 by India Today.

MNNIT’s last year placement ranking has seen a rise in the pay packages and the best placement record of almost 97%. BIT Mesra on the other hand holds a stellar placement record since its inception. But while selecting between IT at MNNIT Allahabad or CS at BIT Mesra one needs to consider certain facts which are discussed below.

Placement Opportunities:

MNNIT Allahabad –

• Almost 285 companies visited MNNIT for campus recruitments including top-tier companies such as Adobe, Accenture, Deloitte, Dell, BPCL, etc.

• 792 students out of 1174 were successfully placed in some of the top companies with the highest package offered in 2019 being INR 36 Lakhs (Per Annum) and the average package offered was 7.82 Lakhs (Per Annum).

• The median salary offered to the students was recorded to be 8 LPA.

BIT Mesra –

• BIT Mesra is renowned for the amazing placement opportunities that it has in store for the students. Some of the top recruiter companies visiting there campus are Wipro, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.

• In the year 2019, 120 companies participated in the campus recruitment and offered jobs to 831 students. The highest package offered was INR 49.76 Lakhs (Per Annum), whereas the average salary offered was INR 11.76 Lakhs (Per Annum).

• Whereas, the median salary was 8 LPA.

Both MNNIT Allahabad as well as BIT Mesra have seen a considerable increase in their placement opportunities for almost all courses. It depends more on the student’s interest and feasibility to choose between Information Technology at MNNIT Allahabad or Computer Science Engineering at BIT Mesra.