Should I go to LPU (Lovely Professional University) or Manipal University Jaipur for a B.Tech (IT)?

For BTech IT, you should opt for the Lovely professional university. It is a better option for pursuing BTech IT as it is ranked 87 for BTech by NIRF 2020. Manipal University is ranked 251 for the same in India by NIRF 2020 rankings.

The table below shows a brief overview of the Universities.

Placements: (Winning Institution - Lovely Professional University)

• Almost 98% of students in the Information Technology of LPU got placed in reputed companies in last year’s placement drive.

• More than 200 MNC’s visit the LPU campus every year, offering placements of around 2,000.

• Salary packages vary from 3.33 LPA to 30 LPA, depending on the skills of students.

Students are given training in aptitude reasoning, soft skills, and interview skills from the second year.

Achievements: (Winning Institution - Lovely Professional University)

• LPU has an industrial tie-up with Google to provide android courses to BTech IT students.

• The institute also has collaborated with VMware IT Academy to give students exposure to products like vSAN, NSX, AirWatch, vCloud, etc with certification.

• LPU was featured in various national media for creating a solar-powered driverless bus and the prototype was revealed in ISC 2019.

• It was ranked 1st in the world’s biggest hackathon, a 36-hour non-stop coding event held at MIT, Bangalore.

• The institute was also ranked over most IITs and BITS Pilani as the most technologically aware crowd in the nation by HackerEarth.

LPU scholarships:

Several LPU scholarships were awarded to the students based on their performance in any of the following categories:

• Based on the performance in class 12 for UG programs and based on the performance of graduation for PG programs.

• Based on the score obtained in LPUNEST.

• Based on scores obtained at the national level, tests like JEE mains, GATE, etc.

BTech IT students at LPU can choose their extra subjects of choice from a vast range of subjects as engineering minors, open minors, departmental electives, etc. In terms of exposure, placements, academic opportunities, Lovely Professional University is better than Manipal University Jaipur for BTech IT.