I got NIT Surathkal ECE and IIIT Bangalore CSE. I am joining IIIT Bangalore CSE, is it a good decision?

This is a very subjective question. However, as a student of ECE at NIT Surathkal, I am writing down a few points in defense of my degree- First of all, NIT Surathkal offers a much more complete and diversified engineering education. This is because you will get to interact with the students of various disciplines from around the institution. This will offer a good exposure in contrast to the IIITs which are entirely focused on CSE and ECE branches. ECE is the branch of the future. CSE is turning more and more into a commodity. This is due to the dilution of its educational standards, and the increasing volume of students in this branch. As an ECE student, you can always learn programming (it is in fact a part of the curriculum in a limited manner). However, it is much more difficult to learn the concepts of ECE as a CSE student. As an ECE student you can be placed in a software company, but as a CSE student you can’t work in the E&C field. Both the colleges are good, but NITK holds more prestige because it is much older. Its campus is very impressive as well. But even IIIT Bangalore CSE is a great option. Once you’ve made a decision, stop seeking others’ opinions. Instead, work on your skill enhancement. Considering the sheer lack of core jobs in the electronics sector in India and the huge placement opportunities in the IT sector, your choice is good from a placement point of view.

Which is better- B.Tech CSE at NIT Surathkal OR BITS Pilani campus? My son got admission in both.

Both the institutions are highly renowned and offer good education in the field of Computer Science Engineering. BITS Pilani offers better campus life and overall growth opportunities. Both the institutions offer equally good research facilities. The total course fee for CSE at NIT Surathkal is INR 5,73,820 while at BITS Pilani, it is INR 21,15,600. During the 2022 placement season, the CSE branch at NIT Surathkal recorded the highest package of INR 45 LPA. The data for 2023 placements isn’t available as of yet. At BITS Pilani, during the 2023 placement season, 104 students were placed from the IT branch. The CTC range stood at INR 11-38 LPA. Thus, both the colleges offer good placements for Computer Science Engineers. If fees is a factor of concern for you, choose NIT Surathkal. Otherwise, both the colleges are a great choice for a CSE degree, and you won’t regret choosing any of them.

What should I choose: NITK CSE or IIIT Hyderabad CSE?

The decision of choosing one between NITK CSE and IIIT Hyderabad CSE depends on what kind of college life you are looking for. To be frank, if you want a dynamic campus life with an equally good but light curriculum, NIT Surathkal is better than IIIT Hyderabad because the matter has a very rigid campus life that focuses entirely on academics. NIT Surathkal will give you a huge baggage of memories, a good job, and some good connections. But IIIT Hyderabad will help you become a person of responsibility whose only focus is building a career. NIT Surathkal brings you together with people from all corners of the country which makes the experience better. IIIT Hyderabad on the other hand has only two branches - CSE and ECE. So the former may not make you a very talented CS engineer but will surely develop your personality as a whole. So the best way to decide is to analyze your inclination, and then make an informed decision.

Which is better for CSE, NIT Warangal or Surathkal?

In my opinion, if you are getting a top NIT, then choosing CSE will be a better decision unless you are interested in any other specific branch. As far as comparing the CSE branch in Warangal and Surathkal, both offer similar opportunities and academic experience. Given all the similarities, choosing one between these two NITs depends more on your personal choices such as proximity to home and crowd. If you are from the home state of Karnataka choose Surathkal but if you are from the home state of Warangal, choose NIT Warangal. I would recommend you to go for NIT Warangal as it has better opportunities if you are inclined towards research. The alumni base is huge and there is even an innovation garage where the ideas of students are implemented.

Is it better to take CSE at NIT Surathkal or mechanical engineering at IIT-KGP?

The answer to this question depends mainly on your interest. Mechanical and CSE are diverse branches with diverse scopes. You need to analyze your own inclination only then can you make a sound decision. If you aren’t sure if the branch you can decide based on your future goals. If you want to land a job right after graduation that too a decent package, choose CSE over Mechanical because that branch has more job opportunities. If you are planning to pursue higher studies, especially in Physics-related courses, choose Mechanical. The branch is very intriguing and opens many doors to higher studies. If you value colleges over branches then choose IIT KGP as it’s way ahead of NIT Surathkal. Lastly, I will advise you to opt for Mechanical only in first and second-generation IITs. So you can opt for NIT Surathkal or Trichy over third-generation IITs but not over first and second-generation IITs. Hope this clears my point.

Is joining mechanical engineering in IIT BHU or CSE in NIT Surathkal or CSE in DTU better?

Following the sheep mentality, many claim that it’s the branch that shapes your career and not your institute. Well, don’t let such people mislead you into believing your career is all set if you take CSE irrespective of the institute you belong to. CSE branch is a major crowd-puller but trust me any branch taken up at IITs is better than other technical institutes. The branch is temporary but the tag you will be getting is permanent and will stay with you forever. Moreover, as for the placement opportunities that are better for CS, you can always opt for noncore placements and acquire coding skills. The campus life and exposure provided by IITs is like no other so if you choose a technical institute other than IIT, you will be missing out on a good college life. Also, the culture of most IITs is driven towards coding so many IIT companies offer placements to students other than the CS branch based on your skills. Here is a comparative analysis of the placement scenario of these institutes Particulars NIT Surathkal placements DTU placements IIT BHU placements Average package INR 45 LPA INR 15.16 LPA - Highest Package INR 13.12 LPA INR 1.8 CPA INR 1.2 CPA Top Recruiters Microsoft, DE Shaw, Uber, Amazon, Oracle. Samsung, Instabase, Atlassian, Sprinklr, Amazon, Alphonso, Salesforce, Microsoft, Adobe, etc Uber, Flipkart, Microsoft

Which is better: IT at NITK or CSE at NITC?

NIT Surathkal IT is far superior to NIT Calicut. It is well-known in India for its CSE/IT branches. It is a highly regarded engineering college in India, and after four years of B.Tech college, the specific branch does not matter. NITK outperforms Calicut in terms of reputation and placements. Furthermore, because of the higher cutoffs, the quality of students may be slightly higher here. IT at NITK is nearly equivalent to CSE here. During placements, nearly all companies open to CS are open for IT as well. Categories IT at NITK CSE at NITC Course fee 5.40 lakhs 5.42 lakhs Placement rate 92% 85% Average salary package 8 LPA 8.1 LPA Highest salary package 35 LPA 36 LPA The subjects taught and the syllabus in both departments are also similar. In fact, the IT department may be slightly better than the CS department in terms of facilities and infrastructure, as it is newer. Previously, the quality of students in CS was higher than in IT, but with significant increases in IT cutoffs, both are now equally good.

Is NIT Warangal or NIT Surathkal a better placement-wise in CSE? Also, which college is better overall?

The CSE branches of both NIT Surathkal and NIT Warangal are equally good in terms of academics, facilities, and job opportunities. Even if there was any small difference, it wouldn’t matter if you were among the top 70% of the class. One must consider other personal criteria like hostel facilities, distance from home town, food, etc. Here is a brief overview of both the colleges Particulars NIT Surathkal NIT Warangal Ranking 38 out of 200 colleges in India in 2023 53 out of 200 colleges in India in 2023 Total No. of Eligible Students 1608 1446 No. of Students placed 1385 1132 Highest CTC INR 45 LPA INR 62.5 LPA Average CTC INR 13.12 LPA INR 25.5 LPA Top Recruiters Microsoft, DE Shaw, Uber, Amazon, Oracle. Recently, NIT Warangal has been doing exceptionally well in terms of placements. Almost 30% of the class got more than 20 LPA offers. All you need is open coding skills.

Which is better opt IIT Delhi maths and computing or CSE at NIT Warangal, NIT Surathkal or IIIT Bangalore CSE?

Without any second thoughts, IIT Delhi MnC is the best option among all the aforementioned colleges. It's one of the top 5 IIts and moreover, its MnC program is highly sought after by engineering aspirants. The preference order in your case should be IIT Delhi MnC NITK CSE NITW CSE IIIT B CSE It's safe to say that none of the above colleges can match the standard of IIT Delhi, which is in itself a brand. MnC is quite similar to CSE though a few core computer courses are not included. Also, this branch is handled by the Mathematics department and not the CSE department. However, if you are more inclined towards CSE than MnC, then the best options for you would be IITR or IITG CSE.

What is the lowest cutoff for CSE in NIT Surathkal for the state quota for the general category?

NIT Surathkal cutoff for the state quota general category are mentioned below: Round 1 3109 Round 2 2564 Round 3 3347 Round 4 3347 Round 5 3347 Round 6 3406 Based on the data above, the lowest cutoff required to get CSE at NIT Surathkal this year was a rank of 3347.

NIT Surathkal B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering: Fees 2025, Course Duration, Dates, Eligibility

Course Highlights	Details
duration	4 Years (Full Time)
course level	UG (Degree)
mode of study	On Campus
total fees	₹ 6.02 Lakhs
median package	₹ 14 Lakhs
eligibility	10+2 with 45% + JEE Main
entrance test	JEE Main

College	B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering Total Fees
MNNIT Allahabad	₹ 6.57 Lakhs
NIT Trichy	₹ 6.52 Lakhs
NIT Surathkal	₹ 6.02 Lakhs
NIT Warangal	₹ 5.45 Lakhs

Fee Type	Total Amount (INR)
tuition fee	₹5 Lakhs
caution fee*	₹6,710
other fee	₹95,420
total academic fee	₹6.02 Lakhs
hostel fee	₹1.35 Lakhs
total fee	₹7.37 Lakhs

Events	Dates
JEE Main 2026 Registration	Oct 15, 2025 - Nov 25, 2025 Ongoing
JEE Main 2026 Exam Date	Jan 22, 2026 - Jan 30, 2026
JEE Main 2026 Result	Feb 19, 2026

Events	Dates
Respond to Queries for Special Round 3 Admission [B.Tech]	Aug 22, 2025
Resolution of IAF-II Payment Issues for Special Round 3 Admission [B.Tech]	Aug 22, 2025
Online Reporting, Willingness, Document Upload for Special Round 3 Admission [B.Tech]	Aug 19, 2025 - Aug 21, 2025

Events	Dates
JEE Main 2026 Registration	Oct 15, 2025 - Nov 25, 2025 Ongoing
JEE Main 2026 Exam Date	Jan 22, 2026 - Jan 30, 2026
JEE Main 2026 Result	Feb 19, 2026

Admission to the course is based on JEE Mains rank, with no group discussion or interview required. The faculty are highly rated, with a 4.5/5 score, and maintain a student-to-faculty ratio of 1:10. The teaching staff are experienced, many holding PhDs or having research backgrounds, and are noted for being approachable and supportive. The course ensures robust placement opportunities, especially in Computer Science, Information Technology, and Electronics and Communication Engineering, with a 100% placement rate for CS and IT.

The highest salary package reached 57.5 LPA, while the average for CS lies between 20 to 28 LPA. Overall, the college's average placement package is around 10 to 12 LPA, with a 90% placement rate across all branches. Major companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are key recruiters. Internships, available from the 5th semester, offer stipends between 40,000 to 65,000 INR per month, with high-profile internships often leading to pre-placement offers.

NITK provides various scholarships and financial aid options, including full fee remission for students from families earning less than 1 lakh INR annually and 50% remission for those earning under 5 lakh. The total tuition fee for the 4-year B.Tech program is approximately 5 to 6 lakh INR, with hostel fees adding around 4 lakh INR. Loan facilities are available for those needing financial assistance. Scholarships are merit-based and available for SC, ST, OBC, EWS, and PwD categories, with support for government and private scholarships like NSP and Vidyadhan.

The average salary package post-graduation is about 21 lakh INR, indicating a strong return on investment.

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Specialisation	Package	2024	2021	2020
Computer Science and Engineering	Median Package	₹14.00 Lakhs	₹12.84 Lakhs	₹10.00 Lakhs

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Pratham M Attavar

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Reviewed on Feb 18, 2025(Enrolled 2024)

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Pet year fee would we 1.5 lakh For obc students the tuition fee would be reduced by 2/3rd For sc and st students the tuition fee would be by 100% Scholarships are been provided by the college, which are one time and monthly payments

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Srikara Nikhil

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Reviewed on Feb 6, 2025(Enrolled 2024)

Good college

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Semester schedule was really nice and flexible.

The annual fee would be around 3 lakhs. And it will slide based on the semester. We can also apply for scholarships if eligible. But I was unfortunate that I'm not eligible for scholarship as I'm a general category candidate

Datta l

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Reviewed on Jul 11, 2024(Enrolled 2023)

All Iits and Nits have same system. Students will have tution fee with hostel and mess fee along with small stuffs. Tution fee will get reduced if your income is less. If you are cast is either SC or ST, you don't have to pay tution fee. Nsp is best scholarship for those who have problem in family background. All you have to do is to apply nsp properly and provide your document consistently. For first year, you could get 1 and half lakh. And some times your professors also provide some scholarship. In our college mechanical and electrical students will get scholarship by their department.

Himanshu Singh Patel

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Reviewed on Jun 24, 2024(Enrolled 2023)

A Dream College

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College curriculum is tough and hectic. prof don't give you marks easily.
I hate mostly exam dates. There is usually no gaps between tough subject exams.

There is not so much like in college fees this is standard per semester fees like other nits. The complete cost of your degree is somewhere 8 lahks for 4 year degree. There are a lot of scholarships like Nap, income-based tuition fee reimbursement, sc st scholarship. Scholarship for girls merit cum scholarship etc. I don't have any scholarship right now but I have applied for a merit cum means scholarship

GADDALA VARUN

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Reviewed on May 25, 2024(Enrolled 2021)

BEST NIT I FOUND

Some of the rules during the exams are strict

Our campus is mostly famous for the On campus placements and we are also having a record of holding 100% placement success since 5 years. Coming to the course fee its not too high but we need to complete some certificate courses which we need to pay which is not included in the course fee.

tumula sharath chandra

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Reviewed on Apr 3, 2024(Enrolled 2022)

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The fee structure is 80k per semester and 30k is the hostel fees for the student as I am oc i don't have the availability of scholarships and the financial assistance if done by the my parents and the campus employment and the placements are very well done in this campus

Anonymous

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Reviewed on Mar 26, 2024(Enrolled 2023)

About NITK

Our College offers many internships, allowing students to learn and experience problems in the future. Many Multinational companies will visit NITK to hire software engineers, web developers, app developers, and cyber security engineers. Companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Facebook, Amazon, Intel, Adobe, Walmart, IBM, Google, and Dell visit our campus to recruit. More than 90% of students get hired, and they excel in the field. A particular cell called the School of Management ensures everyone attends recruitment and gets selected.

Chinmay

Reviewed on Mar 19, 2024(Enrolled 2023)

NITK (1yr exp..)

This is government college and we came by writing an entrance exam also the fee structure is around 1lack 20 thousand for year this is excluding the hostel and mess fee , the fee structure is vary for different cast like obc, st , sc, gen.as I know we can apply so many scholarships in college like NSP, SSP , and vidyadhan and reliance and so in we can apply bot the government and the private scholarships they give fulll support from the institutions side for any scholarships , complete cost of our education in four years is around 5 to 6 lack and other services caharges and alla is around 10 thousand per month .

Manoj Barki

Reviewed on Mar 13, 2024(Enrolled 2023)

My experience of first year in NITK

Fee structure is rather affordable even for mifdle class families.

The fees is pretty reasonable here. 62500 rs of tuition fees is to be filled anually. The scholarship aid from government is also available for the students of OBC SC/ST and PwD. Student activity is also good as we work for fests and stuff.

sandeep kumar

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Reviewed on Mar 10, 2024(Enrolled 2022)

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fee structure depend year to year over all for 4 year without schollership it is between 10 to 12 lakhs but if your category is sc/st/obc and you family income is less than 1 lakh then it is between 4 to 5 lakh

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Particulars	NIT Surathkal placements	DTU placements	IIT BHU placements
Average package	INR 45 LPA	INR 15.16 LPA	-
Highest Package	INR 13.12 LPA	INR 1.8 CPA	INR 1.2 CPA
Top Recruiters	Microsoft, DE Shaw, Uber, Amazon, Oracle.	Samsung, Instabase, Atlassian, Sprinklr, Amazon, Alphonso, Salesforce, Microsoft, Adobe, etc	Uber, Flipkart, Microsoft

Categories	IT at NITK	CSE at NITC
Course fee	5.40 lakhs	5.42 lakhs
Placement rate	92%	85%
Average salary package	8 LPA	8.1 LPA
Highest salary package	35 LPA	36 LPA

Particulars	NIT Surathkal	NIT Warangal
Ranking	38 out of 200 colleges in India in 2023	53 out of 200 colleges in India in 2023
Total No. of Eligible Students	1608	1446
No. of Students placed	1385	1132
Highest CTC	INR 45 LPA	INR 62.5 LPA
Average CTC	INR 13.12 LPA	INR 25.5 LPA
Top Recruiters	Microsoft, DE Shaw, Uber, Amazon, Oracle.

Round 1	3109
Round 2	2564
Round 3	3347
Round 4	3347
Round 5	3347
Round 6	3406

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