Bachelor of Technology [B.Tech] (Electrical Engineering) From IIT Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar

IIT Bhubaneswar ranks 17th in the Engineering category by NIRF 2019. It is one of the newer IITs established in 2008. It has many facilities like hostels equipped with Internet, library, sports grounds and courts, Media entertainment rooms, common rooms, etc. It has seen a 90% placement in every department in 2019. IIT Bhubaneswar has top recruiters like Amazon, Google, IBM, Wipro, Apple, HCL, etc. 

IIT Bhubaneswar has collaborated with foreign universities like the University of Western Ontario, University of Warwick, University of North Dakota, University of Southampton, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of New York, USA, and McGill University. So you can either apply in these universities or IIT Bhubaneswar prepares students for foreign universities.

IIT Bhubaneswar also offers internship to the students which last from May to July every year. In 2019, students from 3rd year received internship offers in many reputed industries like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.

The major factor that drives the decision of which course to pursue is the placements.

Chemical Engineering- IIT Roorkee

As per the 2018-19 placements record, more than 250 companies participated in campus placements, some of them were ITC, Reliance, Jindal Steel, TATA, and many more. Chemical Engineering Students at IIT Roorkee recorded an average placement of INR 13.05 lakhs per annum. A total of 8 PPOs were offered to Chemical Engineering students. Roles were offered for Technologist, Researcher, Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Consultant, etc. The placement rate for Chemical Engineering was around 80%.

ECE at IIT Bhubaneswar

ECE is one of the new branches of IIT Bhubaneswar and was introduced in 2016. Due to this, the first batch to pass out would be the batch of 2020. So there are no past records for this course. However, seeing the trend of placements for electrical engineering, the same can be assumed for ECE as well. In the year 2018-2019, 86% of the Electrical Engineering Department was placed. Companies like Amazon, INTEL Technology, ISRO, DELL, Thermax, Tata Steel, and many more visited to recruit students during campus placements. The average placement was recorded at INR Rs. 11.44 lakhs per annum.

EEE at IIT Mandi

As per 2019-20 placements, 62.5% of EEE were placed during phase-1 of campus placements. A total of 75 companies visited the campus and some of the top recruiters were Accenture, Wipro, CISCO, ISRO, CSC India, Siemens to name a few. The average package offered was 13.5 lakhs per annum. Several PPOs were also offered.

Considering the placements data, you should choose Chemical Engineering at IIT Roorkee. However, the final decision of which course and college to select rests up to you.

IIT Roorkee and IIT Bhubaneswar both are good IITs with decent placement records. Even though IIT Bhubaneswar is a new name among Indian IITs, it’s doing quite well placement wise. The placement record of 2019 revels, 100% of CSE students got placement offers in IIT Bhubaneswar.

But being an old IIT, IIT Roorkee has a few advantages over IIT Bhubaneswar in terms of placement. Most of the(80%) programming companies that come to IIT Roorkee are open for all the branches. For example, FANG et al which is open for all in placement but does not visit IITs below Top 7–8 every year. There are also core Electrical Engineering job placements, including some top MNCs as well, which hire Electrical Engineering students only. So, you can have either options of programming jobs and core electrical engineering jobs. Adding to that, there is a larger alumni base, plus the availability of many facilities simply because IIT Roorkee is an older institute.

So, in terms of placement and future prospects between IIT Roorkee electrical or IIT Bhubaneswar CSE, IIT Roorkee electrical is a better choice.

IIT Bhubaneswar ranks 17th in the Engineering category by NIRF 2019 and BITS Hyderabad ranks 39th in the same category by NIRF 2019.

IIT Bhubaneswar has a dedicated placement cell, a total of 120 students were placed with the CSE department observing placement percentage of 100%. The undergraduate placement recorded 90% offers. The Electrical Engineering department has seen 86% placement in the year 2019. With an average salary package of 11 lakhs per annum for big companies like TATA Steel, TATA Advance System, Thermax, INTEL technology, etc.

BITS Hyderabad has a placement cell to groom students for interviews, etc. The CS department has been offered 16 lakhs per annum by companies like Microsoft, Adobe, etc.

You can opt for CS in BITS Hyderabad than opting for EE at IIT Hyderabad because computer science in BITS Hyderabad will open many scopes and are offered with a better salary package than Electrical Engineering from IIT Bhubaneswar.

Electrical at IIT Bhubaneswar is a better option than IIT Ropar. IIT Bhubaneswar has a better ranking than IIT Ropar and also a better placement record than IIT Ropar with 86% of electrical engineers getting placement from IIT Bhubaneswar in 2019.

The School of Electrical Sciences in IIT Bhubaneswar received the highest package and average package of 38 LPA and 11 LPA respectively. Moreover, a good number of Core companies, software companies hire electrical engineers from IIT Bhubaneswar. The electrical engineering from IIT Bhubaneswar received 86% of campus placements.

IIT Ropar in 2019 got 85% placement in electrical engineering in some of the top companies namely Goldman Sachs, OYO Rooms, Finisar, etc. The average package offered for the electrical engineers was 13.83 LPA. The institute also witnessed an overall rise in the number of jobs offered across all streams from 4% to 10% hike.