IIT Bhubaneswar is one of the best new IITs. One of the advantages is the strength of the batch is relatively small. The faculty: student ratio is also low. This forms a close-knit family at the Institute. Also, IIT Bhubaneswar very much focuses on their placement to improve their rankings. Many top firms like ISRO, IOCL, TCS R&D have visited the campus for internship and final placements offer. The average salary package offered to the students was 11.44 LPA, and the highest package was 39 LPA. 

You will feel good to know that IIT Bhubaneswar has collaborated with various foreign universities for student exchange programs and research, as well. In your last year, you will do a project and research work, so you will be able to build a vast industrial insight. Also, dual degree courses are not a bad option because at the end of 5 years you will have two degrees and if you go abroad for a second Master’s degree, some of the courses would have been covered by you in your fifth year. In this way, you will finish your masters in less than 18 months. At the cost of an extra six months, you are getting exposure to the specialized technical courses and a degree. So, dual degree courses are great and it is an IIT after all where you can have a great alumni network ... You are good to go!

Both IIT Ropar and IIT Bhubaneswar were established in 2008. IIT Bhubaneswar shifted to its 936 acres permanent campus in August 2015, whereas IIT Ropar shifted to its 501 acres brand new campus in the year 2019. According to the ranking of NIRF (Government of India), IIT Bhubaneswar ranked 18 and IIT Ropar ranked 21 all over India. The students to faculty ratio of IIT Ropar is 1:8 whereas IIT Bhubaneswar has 122 faculty for approx. 100 students. IIT Ropar has adopted a new curriculum according to International standards. IIT Bhubaneswar has adopted the curriculum of its parent institute IIT Kharagpur.

Big recruiters such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Flipkart, Cognizant, Reliance, Samsung visit both institutes every year. A total of 90.24% of students placed in the year 2018. The highest package of 17.45 LPA and an average package of 13.83 LPA was recorded at campus placement. The coding culture at IIT Ropar is quite profound. Over 89.55% of placement recorded at the end of the placement season of 2019 at IIT Bhubaneswar. The highest domestic CTC offered was 39 LPA and the average package is about 11.44 LPA.

Apart from academics, IIT Bhubaneswar also focuses on extra-academic activities. It provides one credit compulsory cultural course to first year. IIT Ropar provides sports facilities that are needed and organizes sports fest AAROHAN every year. It has clubs like BOCA (Board of Cultural Activities), BOST (Board of Science and Technology), and several societies.

Ropar is well connected to cities like Delhi, Chandigarh, Mohali, Shimla, and Jalandhar. It is nearby many vacation sites like Shimla, Manali. Bhubaneswar is the capital city of Odisha. It has Biju Patnaik International Airport. The campus is situated at the foot of Barunei Hills and it provides a unique scenery and pollution free academic environment.

IIT BBS offers various courses, including B.Tech, M.Tech, Ph.D., M.Sc, and Dual degree. So depending on course and semester, the tuition fee varies, but the hostel and mess fee is nearly the same for all the students. Also, IITs charge the tuition fee of Rs.6 lakhs per annum to students with different nationalities. Apart from all these, the students with backward categories and with poor economic conditions get fee concession or remission on submitting the necessary documents. Following is the total fee required for each of the courses –

1. B.Tech - Rs. 1.98 Lakhs/Year

2. M.Tech - Rs. 2.31 Lakhs/Year

3. Ph.D. - Rs. 36,091/Year

4. M.Sc. - Rs. 56,814/ Year

There are high possibilities that you will get it. There are three rounds of selection in IIT Gandhinagar. If your rank is 3500 and the first round cut-off is 3880 then there are high chances of getting selected by the end of the second round.

Looking at the cut off the trend of the last few years, then it is quite clear IIT Gandhinagar released quite decent ranks throughout. In 2019, the cut off for the mechanical department was 4476 whereas in 2018 the cut off was 4229. So having a rank of 3880 is not bad and the possibilities of getting selected are quite high.

For selection, rank is not the only thing considered in IIT Gandhinagar. The scores of the 10th and the 12th standard of the candidate are also considered. In the two-step selection process, the rank is considered first and then the Board’s scores. Then finally, the top percentile candidates on the list will be selected. Although certain advantages are provided to the SC/OBC candidates in terms of ranks, the seats are allotted differently for the general category and the SC/OBC category which do not overlap each other during selection.

IIT Bhubaneswar is the first choice for most of the students when it comes to mechanical. When you will be selected in the first allotment there, IIT Gandhinagar will not be that challenging and by the end of the second or third allotment, you may get selected.

If the IIT tag is not considered, NIT Trichy’s Structural Engineering M.Tech course is better than IIT Bhubaneswar. But the hallmark of IIT does offer certain advantages.

NIT Trichy was established in 1964 while IIT Bhubaneswar was established in 2008. So, it is the older institution with a strong alumni base. NIRF in 2019 ranked NIT Trichy 10 in India while IIT Bhubaneswar was ranked at 17.

NIT Trichy has a very good placement record over the years and it is pretty good for structural engineering specialization. Almost 80% of the M. Tech students are employed in reputed companies every year with an average salary package of 5 lakh per annum. Some of the companies in which the students get placed are L&T Construction, L&T Hydrocarbon, TCE, L&W Construction, Atkins, Dow Chemicals, Technip, etc.

Compared to NIT Trichy, IIT Bhubhaneshwar does not have an impressive M. Tech placement record. The institute has witnessed around 68% of placement. But in the year 2018, there was an increase in the number of jobs offered from core industries. The average salary package was 11.15 package per annum. Top MNC recruiters were Goldman Sachs, Renault, Nissan, Samsung, Oracle, Infosys, Adobe, etc. The public sector undertakings in India such as ISRO, IOCL, HPCL, NCCBM also participated in placement.

The total fee structure of IIT Bhubaneswar for the M.Tech Structural Engineering program is Rs. 2.31 Lakhs/ Year. While the fee structure in NIT Trichy is only Rs. 96,625/ Year. NIT Trichy has highly qualified and experienced faculty. Most of them hold Ph. D and some of them have completed PostDoc. The institute makes use of the e-learning platform to teach the students. IIT Bhubaneswar is also rich with experienced faculties.