The hostel facilities of NIT Raipur are good. The hostel rooms are two-seater and 3-seater. Hostels - A, B, D, and F for first-year students. Hostel E and G are for first-year girls. A and B are specious. D and F are a little congested in comparison. The institute provides all the basic facilities.
Mess food is decent. Mostly north-Indian food is provided. Everyone gets used to the mess food after a while.
NIT Raipur Placements 2022 were wrapped with 738 offers. The average package stood at INR 10.1 LPA. The maximum offers were bagged by the IT and Mechanical students. B.Tech students received a total of 649 offers while MCA students received around 65 offers.
The branch–wise statistics of NIT Raipur Placements 2022 have been tabulated below
Branches |
No. of Eligible Students |
No. of Offers made |
Mechanical |
94 |
85 |
IT |
91 |
85 |
CSE |
87 |
78 |
ETC |
85 |
66 |
Civil |
81 |
52 |
MCA |
70 |
65 |
Mining |
70 |
62 |
Metallurgy |
69 |
60 |
Electrical |
68 |
62 |
Chemical |
55 |
54 |
Bio-Med |
37 |
21 |
BioTech |
32 |
24 |
Around 101 recruiters participated in the placement drive. Some of the top recruiters included Wipro, Capgemini, Infosys, Adobe, Aditya Birla Group, etc.
Unless you plan to live in the same city after graduation, the brand name of a college is important. The NITs have a better brand name as compared to a state level college. NIT Rourkela has a better reputation than NIT Raipur, but the latter offers equally good placement opportunities.
I would recommend you choose between NIT Raipur and Rourkela, based on which one is more comfortable for you location-wise.
NIT Raipur offers a great Mechanical Engineering program. The department has a dedicated faculty pool. Professors are well-experienced in their field. Placements are good for Mechanical. The average package received by the students is around INR 7-8 LPA. Companies such as Deloitte, L&T, Hero MotoCorp, etc. take part in the NIT Raipur placements. Many students also get recruited by non-core companies. The department has many clubs such as SAE group and Robotics club.
My brother completed his B. Tech in Biotechnology from NIT Raipur in May 2016. The reason for choosing it was because of the brand value. But after being in the college and started taking interest in the studies and various activities, it went on to be a great 4-year long journey.
It is a trustworthy institute for CSE. You will have to work yourself to achieve something big.
Companies that visit NIT Raipur include some good names but not the high-end ones like Google, Facebook but the ones like Oracle, Samsung, Infosys, CTS, CIL, BPCL, Mu-Sigma, Polaris, Yodlee, Analytics Quotient, Tricon Infotech, Capgemini, Wipro, Barclays, Amazon, Pradan, Resonance, etc.
Placement Percentage |
90-100% |
Highest Package |
17 Lakh |
Average Package |
7-8 Lakh |
Lowest PAckage |
3.5 Lakh |
The number and level of the companies which visit the campus is going to go up in the coming years. The institute is fast developing in every aspect, be it infrastructure or the quality of students taking admission each year.
With a score of 170 in JEE Main, you have a pretty good chance of getting admission in CSE through the home state quota. You might even end up getting some other branches like EE, ECE, etc.
One of my friends has passed the third year from CSE, NIT Raipur, and is interning with the UnitedHealth Group, the sixth on the Fortune 500 list of companies.
Maximum cutoff ranks for NIT Raipur admission varies based on several factors such as branch, category of students, academic year, etc. According to the cutoff trends, students get admission for Biomedical or Biotech with ranks as high as 60k. Your domicile will also be an influencing factor, for the required cutoff.
There are quite a few pros and cons of NIT Raipur. As you have asked about the cons, let me provide you with a few of the drawbacks that come with staying at NIT Raipur.
A few students are also known to complain about the allotment of hostel facilities. Only 30% of students are allotted the hostel on the basis of merit. This could be another major drawback.
Assuming you don’t have any preferences currently in joining any of the clubs at the college, let me help you out by being as lucid as possible. If you are primarily looking for fields like singing, dancing, or literature, clubs like Raaga, Nrityam, and Literati will be your default choices. Also, always keep in mind that the club management certificates you get in your senior years will always be useful in the future.
Now, here are some parameters you can consider before planning on joining any of the clubs at NIT Raipur:
In my opinion, some of the best clubs are NCC, NSS, PMRC, and Raaga. I-Cell, E-Cell, and Nrityam are not that great.
Here are some notable alumni of NIT Raipur who have made huge contributions in diverse fields.
Chief Executive Officers and top executives of Fortune India 500 companies:
Bureaucrats :
Deans and chairs of faculties:
Politicians :
Artists :
Please note that this is not an exhaustive list and there are many other notable alumni from NIT Raipur.
Yash Srivastava and his brother, Harsh Srivastava from NIT Raipur were definitely able to bag the tremendous offer of 75 LPA because they had been working hard. If you heard of Codechef, there’s a possibility that you may have heard about them.
They were in the top 2 positions for coding in the institute during their time, at the institute. Other students used to fight for the 3rd spot. That’s because they were the best in coding. They have worked hard to learn algorithms with the help of the internet.
I have a friend who was in the same batch with them. According to him, they used to solve coding problems every day.
I don’t know much about their interview but they loved to do coding.