What should I choose, CSE at NIT Durgapur or ECE at MNNIT Allahabad?

MNNIT Allahabad offers 4 years of B.Tech and 2 years of M.Tech in ECE. Specializations for postgraduate programs are offered in two fields viz., Digital Systems and Microelectronics & VLSI Design. It is ranked 48th among other engineering institutes by 2020 NIRF rankings.

NIT Durgapur offers 4 years of B.Tech and 2 years of M.Tech in CSE. It is ranked 47th among other engineering institutes. Most of the faculty members of the CSE department are pursuing research in collaboration with CMERI, Indian Statistical Institute, Winona State University, USA, etc.

Course Fees:

Following is the fees for 1st Year which is the same for all branches of the respective institutes:

• MNNIT Allahabad: The fee structure for B.Techis INR 84,666 whereas, for M.Tech, the institute charges INR 1.13 Lakhs.
• NIT Durgapur: The institute charges 1.49 Lakhsfor B.Tech while for M.Tech, the fee is INR 94,10

Cut-off:

The cut off for JEE Main 2019 (round 7) is given below. As seen by the statistics, the opening rank for MNNIT Allahabad is lesser than that of NIT Durgapur, meaning it is tougher to get into MNNIT for ECE than getting into NIT Durgapur for CSE.

Placement:

Core companies generally visiting for the CSE branch also offer placements for ECE branch students. This opens the option of additional companies for ECE students along with the core ECE companies.

• MNNIT Allahabad:
• Core companies like Qualcomm, Brahmos, BEL, Ansys offered salary packages of around 10-15 lakhs.
• Along with this, students can also appear for non-core, software companies like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Amazon, Flipkart, Oracle, Cisco, Samsung, Adobe, etc. offering salary packages of above 15 lakhs.
• • The placement percentage for ECE was recorded to be 90.63% in 2019. The average salary package was 10.95 lakhs and the highest package was 25.33 lakhs.

• NIT Durgapur:
• The CSE branch of NIT Durgapuroffers placements in core companies like TCS, IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, HSBC, J. P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Mu Sigma, etc.
• The percentage of placed students in 2018 was 88.64%.A total of 89 jobs were offered to 78 students with 11 of them securing double job offers.

As far as placement is considered, both ECE and CSE branches get offers from the same core companies. So, it is up to the students to choose either of the institutes depending upon the field in which they wish to specialize.