Which is better: IT at NIT Surathkal or CSE at MNNIT Allahabad in terms of placement and environment?

NIT Surathkal, formerly called Karnataka Regional Engineering College(KREC), located in Mangalore is an amalgamation of 13 departments, 1 school, 12 supporting centers, and 245 eminent dedicated faculty members. NIT Surathkal is ranked 13th in Engineering by and 33rd overall by NIRF 2020. MNNIT, Allahabad is a UGC and AICTE approved institute and has been ranked 14th by India Today 2020.

Admission to IT at NIT Surathkal and CSE at MNNIT is done through scores obtained in the JEE Mains entrance test and percentage in 10+2.

Placement:

NIT Surathkal:

It witnessed 100% placement in B.Tech and 79% in M.Tech during the batch of 2019.

• The highest package offered in the B.Tech program was 39 LPA while at M.Tech it was 18.75LPA.

• In the year 2018, more than 92% of the students were placed with the participation of more than 250 companies in the placement drive.

• Top recruiters at NIT Surathkal are Amazon, Honeywell, Axis Bank, Philips, Qualcomm, Bajaj, Samsung, Dell, Deloitte, Caterpillar, etc.

MNNIT Allahabad:

In the 2019 placement drive at MNNIT Allahabad, 1174 students participated out of which 792 students were placed.

• The highest CTC offered was 36 LPA with Accenture being the prominent recruiter.

• At MNNIT Allahabad, the B.Tech CSE batch of 2019 witnessed the highest recruitment with 163 students being placed out of 167. In terms of M.Tech, 84 students were placed out of 320 who participated in the placement drive.

• Some of the major recruiters at MNNIT Allahabad are Adobe, American Express, DRDO, Berger Paints, Coal India, CISCO, Bajaj Auto, eBay, etc.

Environment:

Both the institutes offer decent academic environments.

NIT Surathkal:

• IT laboratory at NIT Surathkal is equipped with 150 High-End Desktops with i7 processor, 50 Pentium IV Computers, 43 Workstations, 15 IBM and 35 HP Pentium III Desktops, IBM Power 7 Virtualization Server, 2 CUDA Servers for High-Performance Computing, Rational Rose Suite, Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360, MEMSIC Wireless Sensor Network, etc.

MNNIT Allahabad:

CSE department of MNNIT is equipped with internet connectivity of 10.5 Gbps supported through Optical fiber, 104 HP Compaq Elite 8300, 2 IBM Blade Server, 48 HP 406 G1 MT Business PCs, IBM SAN Storage, etc.

Both the universities are of high repute, offering quality education and high placement drive.