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|
Institute |
Faculty Quality |
Personal Development Focus |
Notable Strengths |
|
IIIT Allahabad |
Highly qualified PhDs |
Strong, tech-centric |
Research, coding culture, and practical |
|
NIT Durgapur |
Highly qualified, PhDs |
Balanced |
Supportive faculty, industrial exposure |
|
IIEST Shibpur |
Highly qualified, PhDs |
All-round development |
Soft skills, entrepreneurship, and history |
|
BIT Mesra |
Highly qualified PhDs |
Research & extracurricular |
Strong research, good ratio, and growth |
Overall, IIIT Allahabad is the greatest if you seek a strong IT research and coding culture, while IIEST Shibpur excels at personal development and overall progress. For a balanced environment and faculty assistance, BIT Mesra and NIT Durgapur are other great options.
IIEST Shibpur is a great choice if you're looking for the ideal balance of top-notch faculty and comprehensive personal growth. IIIT Allahabad is the perfect place if you're looking for a more specialised IT research atmosphere.

NIT Jamshedpur and BIT Mesra intake students through JEE Mains (which is conducted by CSAB). JEE Mains allows admission to NITs, BIT Mesra, and various other engineering colleges.
JCECE allows admission to state colleges of Jharkhand. BIT Sindri is the best college to get into by qualifying JCECE. If you are interested in branches like Mining and Metallurgy, BIT Sindri is a good choice.
If you perform well in JEE Mains, you may qualify for the top NITs like Warangal, Trichy, etc.
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You’ll receive ample placement opportunities at BIT Mesra, given that you understand electronics well. You may consider joining Robolution, which will give you an edge over the others. Qualcomm visits the ECE department with good offers. A few years back, it appointed 4-5 ECE students for a package of 15 LPA. If you are willing to put in the extra effort and learn coding, you may get into good IT companies. Some of them being- Microsoft, Amazon and IBM.
Academically, the ECE department of BIT Mesra isn’t the most ideal choice. This is because the department faculty is strict, and the curriculum is tough. If you couldn’t get CSE at BIT Mesra, you can try for IT instead of ECE. The ECE branch requires a lot of effort and time, which can be overwhelming.
I can only talk about the CS/IT department of BIT Mesra.
The M.Tech curriculum is pretty good, but teaching quality is lacking. The department faculty seems uninterested in teaching. This may be due to lack of resources and a poor administration, which annoys them as much as it does the students. Almost zero importance is given to coding for PG students. The college seriously lacks a research culture, but if you are adamant on pursuing research, you may find good guidance nonetheless.
The location of BIT Mesra is unfavorable for placements. Despite this, the department performs really well during placement season. Big shot firms like Microsoft and Goldman Sachs recruit M.Tech students from the department. The highest package for M.Techs is around 40 LPA. Getting placed is totally your responsibility. The college’s work is simply to invite top companies for campus placements, which in this case, it does.
As far as the CS/IT department of BIT Mesra is concerned, it offers decent academics and good placements. Moreover, it's not necessary that things are any better at other institutions.
As per the 2022 placement record of BIT Mesra, the average package for B.Tech CSE stood at Rs. 19.27 LPA for the year. In the same year, the average package for B.Tech IT stood at Rs. 20.58 LPA.
113 out of 124 eligible B.Tech CS students were successfully placed during 2022. For IT, this figure was 56 out of 59 eligible students. The median package for both B.Tech CS and IT was Rs. 16 LPA, and the highest package was Rs. 58.33 LPA for both.
EY, Cognizant, Wipro, Daffodil Software, etc. were some of the top recruiters for the year.
You can check further details on the placement statistics of BIT Mesra.
This happened with my friend Rohit, back when we were at BIT Mesra. We were freshers at the time.
That night, Rohit was returning back to his hostel from a gaming event at 10:30 pm. As he was entering the hostel gate, a senior told Rohit to park his (the senior’s bike) inside the hostel as a favor. The senior pretended to have hurt his leg in a minor road accident.
Rohit obliged, but as he was following the request, the senior took away his wallet and ran inside the hostel. That senior did so to tease Rohit. But Rohit was scared, and asked the guard for help. The guard called the patrolling guards who took the situation under control. They got to the senior, and took back Rohit’s wallet from him. Rohit decided not to complain about all this to the college authorities.
But the next day, the hostel guard reported everything to the Dean. The hostel supervisor asked Rohit to write a written complaint. Rohit was frightened and wrote down everything honestly. A month passed by, and all this while, the senior kept on apologizing to Rohit.
After one month, a notice was pasted, stating that the matter was being taken seriously. My friend was asked to write down his complaint once again. This time Rohit mentioned that the senior had apologized multiple times. Rohit requested that the matter be resolved.
At the end, the senior got two black dots and Rs. 2000 fine. But at the same time, Rohit also received one black dot and Rs. 1000 fine. This happened only because Rohit had changed his written statement, and asked for the senior to be forgiven.
This is an interesting and disappointing “Black Dot” story.
The placements are partially centralized at BIT Mesra for its extension campuses. Mass recruiters are open to the students of extension campuses as well. But for major firms, only the top 5 students of each branch from every extension campus are allowed to apply. If your resume and grades are good, you’ll get ample opportunities of getting placed from the main campus.
Moreover, you’ll have a BIT Mesra degree, so you can also look for off campus offers. To sit for top firms during the main campus placements, you must score 9 CGPA and above, make good projects, and apply for good internships. By doing so, you’ll open up your chances of getting good job offers.
Though BIT Mesra is a highly renowned engineering college, I would advise against joining any other branch at it except for CS/IT. The other branches are not very good placement-wise, especially when BIT Mesra is such a renowned college.
Core companies do visit the Chemical department for placements, recruiting a decent number of students each year. Apart from them, few Analytics firms and IT companies also recruit from the department. These IT companies include Infosys and Cognizant. Some of the department students clear exams like CAT or GATE, and as a result, go for higher studies/PSUs.
In 2022, from B.Tech Chemical Engineering (excluding Plastic and Polymer), 34 out of 45 students were successfully placed from the campus (43 were eligible for placements). The lowest CTC was 4 LPA, the average CTC was 8.44 LPA, the median CTC was 8.10 LPA, and the highest CTC was 12.84 LPA during these placements.
Thus, BIT Mesra is not a very good choice for Chemical Engineering in terms of placements.
Here are the 2023 JoSAA closing ranks for various branches at BIT Mesra (Round 6, Open Category)-
|
Branch |
AI |
HS |
|
Biotech |
55578 |
80459 |
|
Civil |
54720 |
73019 |
|
Mechanical |
44661 |
59004 |
|
CS |
16401 |
25662 |
|
Chemical |
52487 |
75402 |
|
ECE |
27182 |
38959 |
|
EEE |
31677 |
43915 |
This will give you an idea of the minimum ranks required to get into BIT Mesra as a general candidate. You can log on to the official website of JoSAA for more details.
Here is the admission process for B.Tech programs at BIT Mesra-
Prepare well for your JEE Mains so that you can secure a good branch at BIT Mesra during counseling.

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