REVA University is ranked 4th in the emerging Business Schools in India by Times B-School Annual Ranking 2019. It is listed among the top 50 business schools in India. It is ranked 201 by NIRF 2020 in the engineering category.

CMRIT is affiliated to VTU Belgaum and recognized by AICTE and NBA. It has recently placed 1,767 students in top and well-reputed companies with a salary package of INR 3.5 to 4.8 LPA. They have a student intake of 960 in UG and 102 in PG.

Acharya Institute of Technology (AIT) is affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi with a faculty strength of 300 members. The student population is 4,432 across all the departments.

Tabulated below is a brief overview of the institutions:

Placements 

REVA University 

• Their placement cell has a tie up with more than 300 recruiting partners.
• More than 1800 offers were made.
• The top recruiting companies include nVIDIA, Deloitte, Capgemini, IBM, Infosys, Goldman Sachs, etc.

CMRIT

• 428 offers were made by 72 participating companies.

• VMWare was the star recruiter.
• The top recruiting companies include Infosys, IBM, TCS, DST, Texas Instruments, Dell, Philips, Berger, Sunrise Systems, Eureka Forbes, HP, Chumbak, Forte, EY, Capgemini, Wipro, etc.

AIT 

• 35 companies visited wherein 194 students were placed.
• The star recruiter was Infosys.
• Other recruiters include Pingala, HSBC, Byju’s, OG Healthcare, TCS, Wipro, HP, etc.

Facilities 

REVA University 

• Their library can accommodate 800 students.
• More than 20 clubs are there for the students recreation and education.
• Students are awarded scholarships for their rank obtained in KCET.
• Students obtaining 85-90% in their board exams are also eligible for scholarships.

CMRIT

• The institute has 89 well furnished classrooms and an auditoriumA library containing 23,000 books.
• The computer lab has 1486 PC’s.
• There are hostel facilities for both boys and girls accommodating 340 students.

AIT 

• They have a student strength of 4423 students across all departments.
• With a campus area of 120 acres, the institute has 12 hostels, 5 for boys 7 for girls accommodating 1500 students all over.
• They also provide sports, medical and library facilities.

All the above 3 colleges are equally good. It ultimately depends on the students, their preferences and also their scores in entrance exams. Based on that the students can choose for their preferred college.

Both PES University and Reva University are excellent private institutes offering MCA degrees to students. Students can consider factors like placement, fees, eligibility as well as areas of focus in the subject when it comes to comparing the two colleges.

Admission:

• For admission to MCA courses both PES University and Reva University accept PGCET scores.

• The prerequisite for admission to MCA is graduation with 50%.

• The course fee for MCA at PES University and Reva University is INR 2 lakhs and INR 1.05 lakhs respectively.

Placements:

PES University:

Students are placed via the placement cell set up at the institute.

• The average package offered at the institute clocks in at INR 3 to 8 lakhs per annum to students from the department.

• Some of the top companies hiring students include CISCO, Amazon, Volvo, Nokia, etc.

Reva University:

• Most students at the institute are recruited into companies like Wipro, TCS, IBM, NTPC, Accenture, etc.

• Placement rates are low with some students reporting around 30% placement percent.

• The highest package offered is INR 6 lakhs per annum and the lowest offered at INR 2 lakhs per annum.

Program focus areas:

PES University:

• MCA at PES university includes topics like professional ethics, modern tool usage, innovation and entrepreneurship, and others.

• It aims at finding solutions to complex problems and also designing various experiments.

• It teaches students to efficiently apply contemporary IT tools to Computer applications.

Reva University:

• This program at the college aims at teaching students computing fundamentals, math as well as domain knowledge, and computing sciences.

• It emphasizes using a research-based approach in carrying out analysis, experiments, and data interpretation.

• It implicates the use of modern-day technology and resources to complex computing activities and understanding its limitations.

While placements are more or less the same, students can consider the fee structure as well as program objectives and outcomes to decide which university is better. Fee wise, Reva is much more economical.