Which is a better choice: NIT Jalandhar IT (starting from this year) or IIITDM Jabalpur CSE?

NIT Jalandhar is regarded as an Institute of national importance. It offers courses in the fields of management and engineering. IIITDM Jabalpur has been approved by UGC and the Ministry of Human Resource Development. It offers courses in engineering and design.

Course:

NIT Jalandhar and IIITDM Jabalpur offers BTech programs for IT and CSE.

• IT course at NIT Jalandhar is a relatively new course and touches upon all aspects of information technology. It is very close to Computer Science but extends beyond that to other applications of IT as well.

• The CSE course at IIITDM Jabalpur is a very famous course. It mainly focuses on computers and their applications as well as new and emerging technologies in this field.

Admissions:

• Admission at NIT Jalandhar requires the students to give JEE Mains and Advanced and secure an above average rank. The cutoffs are decided after the declaration of the result.

• For admission at IIITDM Jabalpur, students are required to score at least 50% in their 10+2 board examinations as well as appear for JEE. Admission is completely based on merit.

Placements:

NIT Jalandhar-

Every year, NIT Jalandhar offers several placement opportunities.

• Some notable companies include Hero Motocorp, Amazon, Cognizant, etc.

• The placement figures are relatively high with over 582 students placed in 2017-18 with a mean salary of 6.6 LPA.

• In 2018-19, around 561 students were placed with a mean salary of 6.0 LPA.

IIITD-

• It has great placement numbers as well with the highest salary figure going up to 37 LPA almost every year.

• A total of 126 students were placed in many notable companies like Canon, Oracle, IBM, Coviam, Infosys, etc.

Thus both these colleges are excellent in terms of education and placements. Students need to be careful of their JEE rank as both these colleges expect high scores from their prospective applicants. As for which institute will be better for you, you should be the one to decide that.