NIT Surathkal, formerly called Karnataka Regional Engineering College(KREC), located in Mangalore is an amalgamation of 13 departments, 1 school, 12 supporting centers, and 245 eminent dedicated faculty members. NIT Surathkal is ranked 13th in Engineering by and 33rd overall by NIRF 2020. MNNIT, Allahabad is a UGC and AICTE approved institute and has been ranked 14th by India Today 2020.

Admission to IT at NIT Surathkal and CSE at MNNIT is done through scores obtained in the JEE Mains entrance test and percentage in 10+2.

Placement:

NIT Surathkal:

It witnessed 100% placement in B.Tech and 79% in M.Tech during the batch of 2019.

• The highest package offered in the B.Tech program was 39 LPA while at M.Tech it was 18.75LPA.

• In the year 2018, more than 92% of the students were placed with the participation of more than 250 companies in the placement drive.

• Top recruiters at NIT Surathkal are Amazon, Honeywell, Axis Bank, Philips, Qualcomm, Bajaj, Samsung, Dell, Deloitte, Caterpillar, etc.

MNNIT Allahabad:

In the 2019 placement drive at MNNIT Allahabad, 1174 students participated out of which 792 students were placed.

• The highest CTC offered was 36 LPA with Accenture being the prominent recruiter.

• At MNNIT Allahabad, the B.Tech CSE batch of 2019 witnessed the highest recruitment with 163 students being placed out of 167. In terms of M.Tech, 84 students were placed out of 320 who participated in the placement drive.

• Some of the major recruiters at MNNIT Allahabad are Adobe, American Express, DRDO, Berger Paints, Coal India, CISCO, Bajaj Auto, eBay, etc.

Environment:

Both the institutes offer decent academic environments.

NIT Surathkal:

• IT laboratory at NIT Surathkal is equipped with 150 High-End Desktops with i7 processor, 50 Pentium IV Computers, 43 Workstations, 15 IBM and 35 HP Pentium III Desktops, IBM Power 7 Virtualization Server, 2 CUDA Servers for High-Performance Computing, Rational Rose Suite, Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360, MEMSIC Wireless Sensor Network, etc.

MNNIT Allahabad:

CSE department of MNNIT is equipped with internet connectivity of 10.5 Gbps supported through Optical fiber, 104 HP Compaq Elite 8300, 2 IBM Blade Server, 48 HP 406 G1 MT Business PCs, IBM SAN Storage, etc.

Both the universities are of high repute, offering quality education and high placement drive.

IIT Bhubaneswar stands out among the second generation IITs both in terms of academics and placement. According to NIRF Ranking 2020, IIT Bhubaneswar was ranked 22nd among the engineering colleges of India.

Dual Degree in CSE from IIT Bhubaneswar provides students with both BTech and MTech degrees. The course duration is 5 years and dual degrees are mostly preferred by students who want to do research-based studies and further engage in academics.

CSE department at IIT Bhubaneswar had a 100% placement rate in 2019. The top recruiters include Amazon, HCL, IBM, Infosys, Samsung Electronics India, DRDO, Accenture, WIPRO, OYO, Adobe, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Samsung, Microsoft, Deloitte, INTEL technology, etc. The students received an average salary package of 11 lakhs per annum and the highest package offered was around 39 lakhs per annum.

The institute also collaborates with foreign universities such as the University of Warwick, University of Southampton, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of Western Ontario, University of New York, University of North Dakota USA, and McGill University. Which gives the students good research and internship opportunities.

CSE from IIT Bhubaneswar is a very good choice for the students who want to make their career in IT and Programming.

NIRF has ranked Thapar University 29th in the Engineering category. Whereas, LNMIIT Jaipur has been ranked 194 for B.Tech by NIRF. As Thapar university is among the finest universities for CSE in North India and LNMIIT Jaipur is an emerging college in the field of IT, these colleges are compared often. Given below is a brief comparison between the two institutes.

CSE at Thapar University

• Established in 1956, the University also has a larger alumni network as compared to LNMIIT Jaipur.
• The course fee for CSE at Thapar is 17.08 lakhs. Admissions at Thapar University is based on JEE Mains scores. The minimum eligibility criteria are 10+2 with 70% aggregate in PCM.
• The CSE department of Thapar has excellent infrastructure. It also has a great coding culture. The department has many technical and non-technical societies that organize many coding competitions, hackathons, all year round.
• In 2019, Thapar University's Highest salary package reported was 43 LPA and the average salary package was approximately 7 LPA. The top recruiters included Amazon, Microsoft, DE Shaw, JP Morgan, Infosys, etc.

Thapar University final year students are required to spend a full six month semester in the industrial projects. It also arranges 6 weeks of summer training for students of various branches including CSE.

CSE at LNMIIT Jaipur

• Admissions at LNMIIT Jaipur is based on JEE Mains scores and direct admission is offered to Central & State Board toppers. The minimum eligibility criteria are standard 12th with 60% aggregate in PCM. The total course fee is 14.8 lakhs.
• According to reports as per 2019, LNMIIT Jaipur recorded the highest salary package as 36 LPA and the average salary package 10 LPA. The top recruiters included Amazon, Oyo, Microsoft, Sapient, Goldman Sachs, etc. Students also get selected for GSoC from LNMIIT.

LNMIIT Jaipur provides opportunities for extensive research work. It also provides Summer internship programs. The programs are attended by students from IITs and NITs.

Although LNMIIT Jaipur has a lower course fee, in terms of placements, alumni network, coding culture Thapar University is better for CSE.

IIT Tirupati is the 3rd phase of IITs and it is mentored under IIT Madras. The campus has all the required facilities to cater to the needs of the students like classrooms, central library, and 2 computer labs equipped to perform soft-ware based experiment and programming.

• Faculty: Most of the faculty for the CS department have their own PhDs and are alumni of IISc Bangalore, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Madras, and other reputed institutes.
• Admission: The selection to the CS program is based on the JEE Advanced score and in 2019 the closing cutoff for CS for the institute was 2749-5700.
• Placement: The average salary package of 12 lakhs per annum was offered to the students of the CSE department. The top recruiters included JP Morgan, Qualcomm, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Barclays, Intel, etc.

The ECE department of IIT Bhubaneswar, the School of Electrical Science have good infrastructure and facilities. At present, there are 33 labs well-equipped to carry out any academic projects.

• Admission: The intake of the student to the ECE program is based on the JEE Advanced rank. In 2019 the closing cutoff for ECE at the institute was 2736-6844.
• Placement: The placement record of undergraduate students is about 90% in all streams for IIT Bhubaneswar. ECE has seen 86% placement percentage in 2019. The highest salary package offered was 39 lakhs per annum, whereas the average salary package was around 11 lakhs per annum. WIPRO, Tata Consultancy Services, Samsung, Microsoft, Deloitte, Amazon, Adobe, etc. were the top recruiters.

It is difficult to choose which is the better option as the branches are different. Between the branches, CS offers more opportunities. However, IIT Bhubaneswar has better infrastructure and recognition among the recruiting companies compared to IIT Tirupati. So, choose wisely according to the branch you are interested in.

At IIT Hyderabad, the department of CSE got an average CTC of 26.6 LPA in 2019 campus placement, while the highest CTC offered was 47 LPA. Companies like Adobe, Amazon, Microsoft, and Airtel hired CSE students. IIT Hyderabad being among the top 10 IITs in India, excels in placements and the students receive good packages in top MNCs.

On the other hand, IIT Bhubaneswar has 100% placements for the CSE department in 2019 campus placement. A total of 89 companies visited the campus namely Capgemini, Dell, Honeywell, Microsoft, Accenture, etc. The students of the CSE department received a handsome package of 10-35 LPA.

Hyderabad is better than other new IITs and the placements and other facilities at IIT Hyderabad is much better than IIT Bhubaneswar, so CSE at IIT Hyderabad would be the better choice.

All the Colleges are considered to be among the best colleges to pursue Computer Science in India. NIT Surathkal, BITS-Hyderabad, DTU, and DA-IICT are ranked 13 (NIRF 2020), 47 (Jagran Josh), 36 (NIRF 2020), and 111 (NIRF 2020) respectively for BTech. All the Universities offer experienced faculties from subject backgrounds and have well-equipped full-fledged laboratories to carry out academic and research works.

Admission:

BITS-Hyderabad offers a BE program for CSE. Whereas, NIT Surathkal, DTU, and DAIICT offer BTech CSE. BITS-Hyderabad accepts admission based on BITSAT scores. NIT Surathkal, DTU, DAIICT accepts admission for BTech CSE through JEE Mains.

Cut off:

The required cutoff for CSE programs at these institutions according to previous years is as follows.

Fee Structure:

The total course fee at these institutes is as follows.

• BITS Hyderabad- 16.73 lakh

• NIT Surathkal- 3.95 lakh

• DTU- 7.80 lakh

• DAIICT- 6.88 lakh

Placement:

Students of CSE at these institutes pursue their careers in different sectors of IT like Software development & Testing, Database Management, Web Technology, etc. Top recruiters at these institutes for CSE graduates are Amazon.com, Accolite, Capital IQ, Ceat Limited, Samsung, SONY, Microsoft, etc. The placement statistics for CSE at BITS, NIT-S, DTU, DAIICT are as follows.

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering in NIT-Surathkal is actively involved in various research activities and has signed various academic collaborative projects such as MoU with IBM, Intel, Leeds Metropolitan University, and others.

All these institutes have their own pros and cons. So go through the information given above and choose according to your convenience.