Is NIT Surathkal a good college? Is it better than IITs?

Comparing NIT Surathkal with IITs is very vague because there are the old IITs as well as the new ones. So you will have to categorize them into 3 parts

• Colleges that are straightaway better than NIT Surathkal: IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kgp, IIT Roorkee, and BITS Pilani< IIT Guwahati, IIIT Hyd, IIT BHU, IIT Hyderabad.
• Colleges that are comparable to NIT Surathkal: NIT Trichy, IIT Indore, BITS Goa, IIT Ropar, NIT Warangal, BITS Hyd, ISM Dhanbad, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Jodhpur, NIT Allahabad, MNIT Jaipur, and IIIT Allahabad.
• Colleges from which NIT Surathkal is better: DTU, NSIT, IIIT Delhi, IIIT Bangalore, and remaining IITs, NITs, IIITs, and Jadavpur. 

Hope this helps you!