What college should I choose: IIT Tirupati or IIIT Bangalore?

IIIT Bangalore is ranked 65th by NIRF amongst the top engineering institutes in the country. While IIT Tirupati was recently established and hasn’t been ranked yet by NIRF.

The table given below briefly compares the colleges

Placement

IIIT Bangalore

It has an average placement rate of around 92% and recorded 100% placement for CS branches. Top recruiters are Accenture, Paypal, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Dell amongst 230 other companies. Other notable highlights are:

• Highest CTC offered was 43 LPA
• Average CTC was 16 LPA
• 20% students received PPOs in the pre-final year with highest stipend of 52,000

IIT Tirupati

It is relatively new, hence much detailed placement data is not yet available. Major recruiters are Envestnet Yodlee, Bosch, TCS, Honeywell, etc.

• The average package was 9.6 LPA
• Highest CTC offered was 25 LPA

Campus

• IIT Tirupati- The permanent campus, proposed to be spread across 530 acres, is under construction as of now and students have to stay in a transit campus.
• IIIT Bangalore- It has tie-ups with organizations like EMC, Intel,Siemens which organise various training sessions and bootcamps round the year, also providing software and hardware facilities for the institute. Student exchange programme for 2-4 weeks in collaboration with universities in Sweden, Germany and France. 

Both IIITs and IITs have a brand value but Tirupati being a new institute, is yet to make its mark. Faculties at both the colleges are highly qualified. IIIT Bangalore being a relatively older institution has more reputation and better results at present. Although, if one works hard, he/she can excel in any field.