Is IIEST Shibpur better than nits?

As a student of IIEST Shibpur, I will try to present an unbiased opinion on this query. 

• Funding- NITs have been institutes of national importance for quite a while now. On the other hand, IIEST became a national institute only a few years ago. But now as a national institute, IIEST receives the same funding as the IITs, which is more than the funding for NITs. The more the funding, the better are the labs and other infrastructural facilities of a college.

• Rankings- IIEST has been placed 35th in the 2023 NIRF engineering rankings. This is higher than most NITs, except NIT Trichy, Surathkal, Rourkela, Warangal and Calicut. 

• Research- IIEST is highly regarded for its achievements in research. In this respect too, it beats most NITs. The research projects undertaken, and papers published by its researchers are proof of the same. 

IIEST is thus better than most NITs, barring the top ones. Even as BESU, it was performing better.