IIT Bhubaneswar:

• It is one of the newer IITs, established in 2008.
• The Civil Engineering department at IIT Bhubaneswar is well-equipped with modern facilities and has experienced faculty members.
• The institute offers good opportunities for research and higher studies in the field of Civil Engineering.
• Placements at IIT Bhubaneswar for Civil Engineering graduates are also good with reputed 

companies visiting the campus for recruitment.

IIT Mandi:

• It is also one of the newer IITs, established in 2009.
• The Civil Engineering department at IIT Mandi is relatively small but has highly qualified faculty members.
• The institute offers good opportunities for research and higher studies in the field of Civil Engineering.
• Placements at IIT Mandi for Civil Engineering graduates are also good with reputed companies visiting the campus for recruitment.

NIT Warangal:

• NIT Warangal is one of the top NITs in India, established in 1959.
• The Civil Engineering department at NIT Warangal is well-established and has experienced faculty members.
• The institute offers good opportunities for research and higher studies in the field of Civil Engineering.
• Placements at NIT Warangal for Civil Engineering graduates are also good with reputed companies visiting the campus for recruitment.

Ultimately, the choice between these three options will depend on your personal preferences and priorities.

For Civil Engineering, IIT Ropar is comparably better than IIT Bhubaneswar. It offers better academics. The faculties of the Civil Engineering department have years of experience in teaching. Most of them are alumni of reputed universities around the world. IIT Ropar follows a curriculum of international standards, which is designed by the industry experts. 

IIT Ropar placements reveal the average package for Civil Engineering to be INR 12 LPA. 

These are very different choices and you should first make up your mind on the choice of stream.

Here is the relevant information on each stream from the different institutions:

• Economics at IIT Kharagpur: It offers a BS (Bachelor of Science) in Economics. It is a 4 year full-time on-campus program. The course fee for the first year is INR 2.24 Lakhs, while for the next three years, it is INR 2.17 Lakhs each year. During IIT Kharagpur placements 2023, the Highest Salary reached INR 2.68 CPA.

• B.Tech Electrical at IIT Bhubaneswar: It is a 4 year full-time on-campus degree offered at IIT Bhubaneswar. The course fee for Electrical at IIT Bhubaneswar is INR 2.74 Lakhs in the first year and INR 2.68 Lakhs each for the next three years. In the 2023 placements, up till the present date, the highest package offered to the Electrical Branch is INR 44.62 LPA and the average package offered is INR 19.05 LPA. The placement percentage for the electrical branch stands at 85.25%.

• IIT Mandi Electrical: The four-year electrical at IIT Mandi has a course fee of INR 2.85 Lakhs in the first year and INR 2.63 Lakhs each in the remaining three years. Hostel fee is around INR 7500. In the year 2022, 47 out of the 48 eligible students from the Electrical branch were placed. The total number of placement offers received by the Electrical branch was 62. In the year 2023, the highest salary offered at IIT Mandi placements was INR 60 LPA and the average salary was INR 25.23 LPA.

• IIT Guwahati Civil & IIT BHU Civil: Civil Engineering at IIT Guwahati is a 4 year full-time on-campus program. The course fee for the same is INR 2.57 Lakhs in the first year and INR 2.12 Lakhs in the next three years. During the 2023 placements at IIT Guwahati, the highest domestic salary reached INR 1.1 CPA, while the highest international salary was INR 2.4 CPA. The top recruiters were American Express, Qualcomm, JP Morgan, and C-DoT, among others.

IIT BHU Civil Engineering is a 4-year full-time on-campus degree. The course fee for the first year is INR 2.28 Lakhs, while for the next three years, it is INR 2.13 Lakhs each. During the 2023 placements, the placement percentage for the Civil Engineering branch was 76.98%. The median package was INR 15.75 LPA and the Average Package was INR 19.09 LPA.

All the above institutions carry the prestigious IIT tag but to compare all of them that too using different courses is quite difficult. You must first choose the course that you wish to pursue and then decide which of these institutions best fulfills all your goals. 

You can use the above statistics for course fees and placements to get a rough idea of each.

Here are some details about B.Tech Civil Engineering at NIT Surathkal and B.Tech Electronics at PEC for you to make the final decision:

B.Tech. Civil Engineering at NIT Surathkal

• Faculty:  The faculty at NIT Surathkal is above average. There are professors who are very supportive and their teaching methods are excellent, but there are also professors whose teaching methods and approach are not liked by students. Faculty feedback is not taken with much seriousness. 
• Lab facilities & Infrastructure: The Labs are good with all the proper facilities. The infrastructure is average. The buildings are very old and there are no ACs. The elevators do not work most of the time.
• Research Facilities: In terms of research facilities, NIT Surathkal is excellent. It has impressive laboratories. Most of the professors support and guide students in all the different aspects related to research. Various scholarship programs are available for research work and students can also work at foreign universities.
• Placements: The placement scenario is above average with 70% + eligible students getting placed in both core and non-core companies.

B.Tech Electronics at PEC

• B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering is offered for a total course fee of 7.07 Lakhs and the course duration is 4 years. The qualifying exam is JEE Main. PEC is ranked 138th in the NIRF India Rankings 2023: Engineering.
• Companies like Arcesium and Amazon offer good packages to a select few. The selection, however, is based on coding skills and has nothing to do with ECE subjects. Core companies like Sandisk, Texas Instruments, and Mediatek hire only around 4-5 students per company from the CS, ECE, and EE courses combined.
• The remaining upper half of the batch gets placed in various profiles like IT, Consulting, Banking, and others. The remaining students are recruited by mass recruiters like TCS and Infosys.

The overall placement statistics for the year 2022 for NIT Surathkal and PEC are as given:

Both NIT Surathkal and PEC are renowned institutions. You must first choose whether you want to seek admission into Civil Engineering or Electronics and then decide which University / College you should pick.