You should definitely go ahead with international financial management. You will find this subject to be extremely helpful not only in your future career but also in your personal prospects. You will gain a lot of economic and financial information from this course, even more so if it is taught by Prof. Tanuj Nandan.

Here are some pros and cons regarding the same:

Pros:

• Concepts: You will always be interested to attend this class and give it your 100% attention. It is very interactive and more of a discussion between students and the teacher. Because of this, you will not need to prepare that much for the exam. All questions asked on it will be conceptual. They mainly check whether you have learned anything in class. You might not end up with an A+, but you will definitely learn something.
• Personal finance: With the professor’s teaching methods, you will become interested in finance and this will help you in your placements and navigating different components of your CTC, and filing tax details.

You will also be exposed to the world of stocks and markets and learn to invest better in debt instruments and mutual funds. This class will also enable you to understand and download all financial data completely. You can also think of doing a parallel MOOC in finance if you are interested enough.

Cons:

• The teacher has changed as far as I know so the teaching methods might differ a little.

In case you are looking for other electives, my friends had opted for Indian Social Organization and Human Resource Management. Another one of interest was Software Project Management.

If Professor Tanuj is taking your subject (since elective teachers keep changing) you should definitely opt for this elective. His teaching style is probably the best. You will love his class.

To compare two institutes, you need to consider various factors. A few of such parameters are briefed below. 

• Placements Statistics 
• Academics
• Alumni Strength
• Cutoff Required
• Also for CSE, coding Culture

If we compare MNNIT Allahabad and VNIT Nagpur based on these parameters, MNNIT comes ahead, although marginally. 

Here is a brief overview of the CSE program offered by the two institutes.

Other than that, you can also choose a college which is closer to your hometown, if necessary. That way you can save valuable travel time and visit home during holidays. 

There are several professors in the ECE department of MNNIT Allahabad who are excellent in their teaching and lectures for students. These teachers help the students not only in the curriculum but in works related to research and provide other institutional facilities too.

One such example of such a professor is Prof. Amit Dhawan. The point below gives a brief overview of Prof. Dhawan’s characteristics.

• Prof. Amit Dhawan’s lectures are one of the few where students actually learn in detail in topics relevant to the curriculum.
• In most times, 100% attendance was seen in Prof. Amit Dhawan’s class.
• He designed the question paper as such it contains all logical questions, which needs to be solved analytically. No questions in the papers made by the professor require illogical lengthy answers.
• Prof. Amit Dhawan is famous for his lectures in Digital Electronics. He ignites the interest in the subject to most students’ minds in his class. Also, most students receive good grades in the subjects taught by Prof. Amit Dhawan.

These are some of the key highlights of Prof. Amit Dhawan’s lectures, which most students in ECE and also students from other departments in MNNIT Allahabad are well aware of.

MNNIT Allahabad has a good ranking for its B.Tech courses with India Today ranking it at 14 among Top Public Colleges in India 2020 and 48 by NIRF for its B.Tech course.

Below is a comparison of ECE and IT courses offered by MNNIT Allahabad.

Admission Criteria:

• The admission criteria for both Electronics and Communication Engineering as well as Information Technology is the same. A student needs to have a 75% score in 10+2 with science as the mainstream and should have Mathematics and Physics as compulsory subjects.

• Along with this students are required to take the JEE Main exam which serves as the entrance exam for this college. The usual cut off for MNNIT Allahabad in JEE Main ranges from 22,796 to 21,752.

• In 2019, the cut off for JEE Main round of Electronics and Communication Engineering was between the range of 4615-6752 (for other states) and 3600-7128 (for home states). Whereas the cut off for Information Technology was 3133-4986 (for other states) and 4057-5697( for home states).

Campus Placement:

• MNNIT Allahabad has a stellar placement record and in 2019 it placed 1,028 students successfully with top recruitment giants such as Airtel, Amazon, American Express, BHEL, Britannia, Dell, Deloitte, Tata, and many more visiting the institute for campus recruitments.

• The placement percentage for Electronics and Communication Engineering was 90.63% with the Maximum CTC of INR 25.33 LPA.

• Whereas Information Technology had a placement percentage of 95.56% and the Maximum CTC of INR 36 LPA.

Both ECE and IT courses at MNNIT Allahabad do have pro factors like a good placement percentage, high expected salary post-graduation, on-campus housing facilities, etc. But in the end, while selecting between these courses a student needs to primarily consider their own interest and feasibility.

The situation is probably not that great. From my friend’s experience, data structures and algorithms could be taught in a much-improved manner. This does not pertain only to theory, but practical too.

• When it comes to conducting classes, most of the teaching media used to include code snippets and slide shows. You will also be expected to know the subject well beforehand. There are chances that your doubts may not be answered.
• There are computer club sessions held on weekends. These prove to be quite helpful if you happen to be interested in competitive programming and algorithms.
• There are quite a few regular and frequent classes held for other programming topics. It includes Web development, open-source and Git as well as application development, etc.
• The seniors are really helpful along with active students from different OJs and competitive programming websites that might prove to be quite helpful for motivating everyone.
• Assignments are also provided in every lab and these are checked at the end of the sessions. However, you might not receive any help from teachers in case you get stuck. According to them, everything is taught before any assignment is provided.

You will definitely have to study a lot on your own.