Currently, most of the work is done online only but yes eventually you will have to use cash (if you want) for all the payments. For example, when you pay for the JoSSA counseling (which includes INR 44,000 towards the institute and INR 1,000 towards the counseling fee) you will have to make DD with the cash.

• After admission, you will have to pay the semester fee of INR 62,500 (INR 18,500 extra on top of the already paid INR 44,000 earlier).
• For this too you need to make a DD which will eventually need cash.
• For the mess fee of 1st and 2nd semesters, you will have to pay through cash only.
• After joining the institute, you will have to open an account in UCO Bank of the college where you will have to maintain the balance.

The college will automatically withdraw the semester fee from the 2nd semester onwards. The mess fee from 3rd semester onwards you can pay through credit cards or debit cards.

The EEE branch at IIEST Shibpur is good and it will be a wise decision to choose it. The curriculum of the branch is updated and it is very disciplined. You will be given the best learning experience with industrial exposure and practical knowledge.

The faculty members are wise, knowledgeable, and friendly. You will also get a good research environment. The department conducts various seminars wherein professors and guests from India and abroad deliver lectures about their experiences.

If you are opting for dual specialization then you can choose from the following specializations along with the EEE branch:

1. Machine Drives and Power Electronics
2. Power and Energy Systems engineering
3. Control Systems Engineering and Instrumentation

EEE department also has good placement records. Most of the students get placed through campus placements or pre-placement offers. The highest CTC offered is between INR 8-10 LPA. The average CTC offered is between INR 5.5 LPA. The major recruiters are Tata steel, CESC, Vedanta, L&T, MN Dastur, HSBC, PWC, Deloitte, Mu Sigma, EXL, ZS, and mass recruiters like IBM, Infosys, cognizant and Wipro.

The internet speed of the Wi-Fi is pretty good at the hostels. The LAN connection goes into the Wi-Fi router, which is strategically located in the hostel campus.

• It is a gigabit fiber connection that can give a speed up to 1Gbps if connected as an Ethernet cable.
• The Wi-Fi speed is dependent on the closeness of the room to the Wi-Fi router and the time of the day.
• If your room is closer to the router than in the non-peak hours (after 3 AM in the night till morning and during classes when there are very few students in the hostel) you can expect a speed of 4 Mbps – 5 Mbps (with an 802.11n or 2.4GHz Wi-Fi driver) and a speed of 8 Mbps – 10 Mbps (with an 802.11ac or 5GHz Wi-Fi driver).
• During peak hours when many students are connected simultaneously you can expect an average speed of 2 Mbps – 3 Mbps.

So the Wi-Fi speed you will receive is really good at IIEST Shibpur. Being a student here, I can assure you that internet speed was never a major problem.

One of my friends is a local of Jharkhand. He was eligible to get into all departments and ECE at NIT Jamshedpur except CSE, and he got into the same situation where he had to choose between IT at IIEST Shibpur and ECE at NIT Jamshedpur.

He chose IT at IIEST Shibpur and was satisfied with his decision. IIEST has a good campus which is given the INI tag, their seniors are also very good who motivate their juniors.

In the following table, you will get information on IT at IIEST Shibpur and ECE at NIT Jamshedpur.

Completed with a good campus, great seniors, and recently been given the INI tag, it has the energy and enthusiasm to excel and the Director of IIEST is a great person. He works hard to improve the place.

Many of my friends study at NIT Jamshedpur. It has a good infrastructure but not in better condition. Newly constructed hostels at NIT are also good. But officials of NIT are not promising.

Therefore, IIEST Shibpur is a better choice as it will give you many opportunities and give you a better experience.

One of my friends, who attended IIEST, says that IIEST Shibpur will be a better option than IIIT Vadodara. He also mentions several reasons why. Here is what he has to say,

Institute of National Importance:

IIEST Shibpur is amongst the very few institutes that are at present recognized as an “Institute of National Importance”. There are various other institutes competing for the same status, such as BHU, Jadavpur University, CUSAT, COE Pune, Osmania University, AMU, Andhra University, and more.

Alumni Base:

The institute has a legacy of over 160 years with a wide alumni network spread across the globe who are now engaged with top engineering companies in places like US, UK, Canada, and India as well. A few of them are Dr. Bimal Kumar Bose (USA), Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan (USA). The directors of IIT Kanpur, IIT Guwahati, NIT Rourkela, and the Vice-Chancellor of SRM University are some of the institute’s alumni.
Several IIEST Alumni from USA, UK, Canada, Europe, Australia, Singapore and Japan also come forward to help regarding cases like Scholarships, Travel Grants, Sponsored Research, Chair Professors, and others to develop the institute more.

Collaborations:

Besides, IIEST Shibpur also collaborates with various top US universities, such as University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA, and University of Wisconsin - Madison USA. It collaborates with top leading universities from places like the USA, UK, Canada, Japan, and Australia to help students pursue their studies abroad.
Having said that, you can visually determine that IIEST Shibpur can be considered better than IIIT Vadodara. It is also partially because IIIT Vadodara is relatively a newly built institute still establishing many sections under it.

Instrumentation and electronics engineering are interdisciplinary branches and you will get knowledge of all the branches in this discipline. You can also sit for almost all the companies during campus placements.

EE is the mother of all branches and scopes will be high after completing this course. The placements in Jadavpur University are far better than IIEST Shibpur.

The placement statistics of Jadavpur University is as follows:

Jadavpur University is better than IIEST Shibpur in terms of placement, research, and academics. Many government organizations also recruit through Jadavpur University.

IT from IIEST Shibpur is a better choice than EC from SVNIT Surat. Both my classmates and I agree to the fact that IIEST Shibpur is a much better institute than SVNIT. The reasons for the same are given below –

• It is a common observation that many of the EC engineering graduates eventually work as software engineers, which is not their core domain.
• IT is very close to CSE in terms of coding and related works. You will definitely learn more in IT rather than EC even if you are interested in software.
• If you want you can learn software development and coding on your own, then go for the EC branch of SVNIT.
• But that will require a lot of effort, time management, and discipline.
• IT at IIEST, Shibpur will also give a mental satisfaction that you are working in the same field as intended while in EC at SVNIT you will probably have to join a job that is not related to your core EC subjects.
• Even if you are passionate about EC, the faculty in this department at SVNIT are not very good. They are too young for the job.
• Of course, there will be seniors and various clubs to help you out but faculty are at the core of any teaching system.

If you are really interested in EC then choose SVNIT. But if you are interested in coding and that is the job you want, then definitely IIEST, Shibpur should be your primary choice.

There is no comparison between IIIT Raipur and IIEST Shibpur for Engineering. IIEST Shibpur is a much older and well established college than IIIT Raipur. Being a student of IIEST Shibpur myself, I can confidently say that the college is much superior when it comes to engineering.

• IIEST offers decent placements due to its strong alumni network and reputation among people.
• According to recent placement statistics, many top recruiters visited during the placement drive including Microsoft, Vedanta, Wipro, Cognizant, Godrej, HSBC Technologies, and many others giving the highest package of INR 39 LPA.
• Lastly, we can say that though IIIT Raipur may be known for its brand it does not stand on the same ranking as the old engineering departments of IIEST.

They produce many well-qualified students in different fields and provide them with many facilities along with placements and even good opportunities for higher studies and research.