Which is better, IIT Dhanbad for ECE or IIT Bhubaneswar for ECE, placements-wise?

For the year 2019, the Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) placement rates recorded by IIT Dhanbad and IIT Bhubaneswar were 60.40% and 86% respectively. The average CTC was recorded as INR 15.50 LPA for IIT Dhanbad and INR 11.44 LPA for IIT Bhubaneswar. The highest CTC offered was INR 39.50 LPA for IIT Dhanbad and INR 30 LPA for IIT Bhubaneswar. The B.Tech placement rate was recorded as 76.06% and 89.55% for IIT Dhanbad and IIT Bhubaneswar respectively.

For the branch of ECE, the number of seats available in IIT Dhanbad is 45 for the General category and 43 for the Reserved category equating to a total of 78 seats. Similarly, the number of ECE seats available in IIT Bhubaneswar is 20 for the General category and 20 for the Reserved category equating to a total of 40 seats.

The cut off i.e the closing rank for the gender-neutral category for ECE in the year 2019 was 4464 for IIT Dhanbad and 3691 for IIT Bhubaneswar respectively.

Students tend to pick IIT Bhubaneswar over IIT Dhanbad due to the temporary campus status and younger experience of IIT Dhanbad as an institution, other facilities like infrastructure, sports, faculty are good in both institutes.

The final decision should be taken by comparing both the placement rates and institutes as a whole; giving equal importance to the choice of branch of engineering that you would like to pursue.