Four years of Electrical at IIT Bhubaneswar is better than Four years of ECE at BITS Goa.
Electrical Engineering at IIT (BHU) has a well-documented and strong placement record, with high placement rates (81–86%) and top packages reaching up to ?1.68 crore per annum (in B.Tech overall, with Electrical also benefitting from high offers).
The Max CTC for Electronics Engineering is ?50 LPA for 2024–2025, which is less than the highest mentioned for Electrical. However, placement details for Electronics Engineering are less commonly recorded. This might, however, represent a single offer or a particular position rather than the branch's highest or average overall.
Both branches are highly sought after and have strong industry connections, but Electrical Engineering currently has more publicly available and impressive placement statistics.
I don’t have much idea about IT at IIT Allahabad or electrical engineering at ISM Dhanbad, however being a student of Civil Engineering at IIT Bhubaneswar, I can surely help you with some insights.
IIT Jodhpur, IIT Patna, IIT Bhubaneswar all are good IIT with decent electrical engineering programs, which makes it difficult to just pick a single one.
Despite being a new IIT, IIT Bhubaneswar is ranked at 26, according to the National Institutional Ranking Framework. The average salary stands near 9–10 LPA for electrical branches with the maximum reaching around 16 LPA. Also the placement record of 2019 shows, 86% of EE students got a placement offer in IIT Bhubaneswar.
IIT Jodhpur ranks at 25 among all the engineering colleges in India. The Department of Electrical Engineering in IIT Jodhpur had an unprecedented rise of 84% in placement statistics over the past academic year 2018–19. Electrical Engineering students got placed in major companies that visited the campus like DRDO, ISRO, L&T, Cisco Systems, Havells India Ltd., Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd., STMicroelectronics, etc. Some of the students of EE also chose to pursue research from top-notch universities in the world. IIT Jodhpur recently signed an MoU with NAIST, JAPAN which implies enhanced opportunities for internships and exchange programs for students of this IIT.
IIT Patna ranks at 10 nationally according to NIRF, provides a good EE program. According to the 2019 placement record of this IIT, EE students got placement offers with an average of 11.49 LPA.
IIT Jodhpur, IIT Patna, IIT Bhubaneswar, all of these three IITs offer good electrical engineering programs with decent placement. So choose according to your convenience.
I don’t know much about other IITs and am familiar with the situation in IIT Patna only. My brother is currently a student there in the Electrical branch. He says that the situation here is nothing that people with preconceived notions regarding Patna or Bihar think it to be.
IIT Patna UG EE Courses are great and it’s considered the toughest branch for a UG student like any other IITs. However, the curriculum here is very diverse and you will be introduced to both Electrical and Electronics and you can decide which one intrigues you more. You can pursue Coding and Open Source Development too as an electrical student. You will be surprised to know that IIT Patna’s best coded is a senior m of the EE Branch who cleared Google Code Jam and was also part of this year’s ACM-ICPC Team which qualified for the World Final and secured 56 Rank. There are many other examples of students who cleared GSoC.
IIT Patna also encourages its students to pursue research or go for Higher Studies. The professors and seniors offer relentless support.
The best part of IIT Patna is the plethora of options and opportunities you will have after 4 years!