What should I choose between IIT Roorkee electrical or IIT Bhubaneswar CSE in terms of placement and future prospects?

IIT Roorkee and IIT Bhubaneswar both are good IITs with decent placement records. Even though IIT Bhubaneswar is a new name among Indian IITs, it’s doing quite well placement wise. The placement record of 2019 revels, 100% of CSE students got placement offers in IIT Bhubaneswar.

But being an old IIT, IIT Roorkee has a few advantages over IIT Bhubaneswar in terms of placement. Most of the(80%) programming companies that come to IIT Roorkee are open for all the branches. For example, FANG et al which is open for all in placement but does not visit IITs below Top 7–8 every year. There are also core Electrical Engineering job placements, including some top MNCs as well, which hire Electrical Engineering students only. So, you can have either options of programming jobs and core electrical engineering jobs. Adding to that, there is a larger alumni base, plus the availability of many facilities simply because IIT Roorkee is an older institute.

So, in terms of placement and future prospects between IIT Roorkee electrical or IIT Bhubaneswar CSE, IIT Roorkee electrical is a better choice.