The first batch of B.Tech IT business informatics was recently introduced in 2019. The program has been designed by adding some special features along with core B. Tech curriculum which is usually offered at IIIT-A. With the aim of giving the best of all the resources, IIIT-A authorities decided to limit the number of seats for first batch students. Based upon the demand and other criteria, there is a high chance of modification of the seat matrix in the future. 

Some features which are compulsory for students pursuing B.Tech in business informatics at IIIT-A are mandatory French/German language course, compulsory credit based summer internships, Harvard business case study based approach in pedagogy which requires high-quality resources. So limiting the number of seats to give quality education and focusing on each of their students is IIIT-A's main goal now.

Round -1 Cutoff:

• You have to clear JEE Main with a ranking of around 3097 to get into B.Tech business informatics in the first round.
• Closing rank trends from the past few years have been around 4651 for the general category.

Detailed seat matrix:

First batch students are yet to face placements in 2022, the course seems very promising and opportunities are equal to that of the B.Tech IT branch. 

ECE is a great branch and has a lot of research scope as well. IIIT- Allahabad is a great college with awesome infrastructure, amazing placements, and a growing reputation. Despite all this, some people say that ECE in IIIT- Allahabad is not up to the mark or appreciable.

Most of the students join IIIT Allahabad keeping in mind their coding culture. If you have an aptness for programming and want to pursue a career in the IT industry, go for IIIT Allahabad. People who have an interest in CSE/IT but fail to get a seat in a good engineering college join ECE in IIIT Allahabad just to get an IT-like atmosphere. 

Not many students who come to IIIT Allahabad are interested in the core fields or the core ECE material. But this doesn’t indicate ECE here to be bad or not up to the mark. The ones who work hard in the core fields reach different levels of heights in their academic career. They have great courses with the core subjects right from the first semester. The robotics lab and club are very well established and have a great reputation.

Talking about labs, IIIT Allahabad is known to have one of the best class labs in the country with all the required aid and mechanisms. The core subjects start from the first semester itself. So, you don’t need to study physics, chemistry, etc. The teachers are very nice and well educated. They are really very helpful, co-operative and approachable. 

The placement opportunities are great here, particularly in the IT sector. There is no point comparing EC with IT. IT/CSE placements are inferior in any college in India. The only disadvantage of joining ECE in IIIT Allahabad would be the peer group not taking interest in the core stuff. But if you are more concerned about yourself, it won’t matter much.

SRM Sonepat is popularly known for its degree programs in Engineering. The academic institution has been ranked as the number 1 top private university in India by Deccan Chronicle and India Today. The engineering stream observes a diverse culture with students from over 24 states as a part of the university.

SRM Sonepat also offers BTech programs in association with IBM in the fields of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Cloud computing and Mobile application systems, and Blockchain technology. It has international tie-ups and collaboration with the University of Birmingham, Providence University, Taiwan, Singapore Polytechnic, and many more.

Admissions:

• Students looking to apply for the BTech courses at SRM Sonepat are required to have scores from at least one of the examinations, i.e. IPU CET, JEE Mains, NEET, SAT, SRMHCAT, SRMJEEE.

• Based on the ranking of the test, students are selected. They must also ensure to have a minimum score of 50% in 12th with mandatory subjects like Physics, Chemistry, and Maths.

Facilities:

• The campus is spread across 48 acres and offers great modern infrastructure.

• The university follows a practical approach of teaching and therefore gives higher emphasis on the maintenance of workshops and labs.

• It has updated labs ranging from computer, mechanical, electronics, and physics labs to advanced microprocessor and microcontroller, VLSI design, and electronic circuit simulation labs with complete access to high-speed Wi-Fi and 24 hours power backup.

Faculty:

• The institute employs over 80+ faculty and all of them are professionals with academic expertise in their respective fields.

• The faculty also help students with securing job placements and internships in top companies.

Highlights: SRM Sonepat is recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India. The university also provides linguistic training in French and German to increase employability.

Placements:

• The institute observes a general placement rate of 80% with an average salary package of 4.5 LPA and the highest salary package of 12 LPA across the BTech department.

• Some of the top companies for placements are Amazon, Capgemini, Axis Bank, TCS, Uber, and Wipro.

• In the year 2019, Amazon and Microsoft offered a salary package of 32 LPA and 41.6 LPA respectively.

With good infrastructure and experienced facilities, SRM Sonepat is a great option for pursuing BTech Engineering degrees.

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.

The CSE duel degree course offered at IIT Bhubaneswar is good and have a decent placement record. The institute offers a dual degree course in CSE with a duration of 5 years/10 semesters. The essential eligibility criteria for taking admission in the CSE dual degree program is 60% marks in 10+2 PCM. The final selection is based on the performance of the candidate in the JEE Advanced examination. In 2019 the JEE Advanced cutoff for B.Tech+M.Tech in Computer Science Engineering was 2114-6517.

The School of Electrical Sciences which offers the CSE programs at the institute have good infrastructure with 33 well-equipped laboratories and a dedicated group of highly qualified faculty members.

According to the placement statistics of IIT Bhubaneswar in 2019 the CSE branch ad the highest placement rate. The average CTC offered was around 11.4 LPA.

Despite being one of the new generations of IITs, IIT Bhubaneswar is considered among the top engineering colleges in the country. NIRF has ranked IIT Bhubaneswar 17th among the engineering colleges in India.

Among the various engineering programs offered by the institute Civil, ME, EE, ECE, CSE, and Metallurgical Engineering are the most developed branches in IIT Bhubaneswar judging by the infrastructure and placement statistics of the programs.

According to the placement statistics of 2019-20 at IIT Bhubaneswar, 64% of the civil engineering students got placements. For EE the placement rate was 87%. Around 97% and 100% of the students from ECE and CSE got the placements in many top MNCs. Metallurgical engineering had a 90% placement rate. The highest domestic CTC offered was around INR 43.3 LPA and the average CTC was INR 15.8 LPA. MNCs like Honeywell, TCS, Adobe, Goldman Sachs, Wipro, Capgemini, Amazon, etc. have participated in the placement drive.

Hyderabad School of Chemistry

The university is accredited by NAAC with ‘A’ grade and approved by the AICTE and UGC. The eligibility criteria for MSc in chemistry is a BSc with a minimum of 60% marks in aggregate with Chemistry as one of the subjects, preferably with a combination of Physics and Mathematics. The selection of the program is done based on the performance of the candidate in a test conducted by the institute. The fees required for this course are INR 10,710 for the first year.

There are around 33 highly qualified faculty members for the Department of Chemistry and the lab of the department is well-equipped with state-of-art sophisticated analytic instruments.

The university invites numerous companies for campus placements. Maximum students of MSc Chemistry chose to work in research labs and educational fields. Some also go for higher studies. The average package offered is around INR 6 LPA.

IIT Bhubaneswar

IIT Bhubaneswar intakes students into the MSc Chemistry programs based on their performance in IIT JAM and the minimum eligibility criteria is 55% marks in bachelor’s degrees. The course fee required is INR 84,460 for the first year.

The institute has a dedicated group of highly qualified faculty members and all of the faculty holds PhDs in their respective disciplines.

According to the placement statistics of 2019, a total of 70% of the students got placement from the PG courses. The average placement package offered to the students of MSc Chemistry was around 6.5 LPA. The recruiting companies were Amazon, Adobe, CapGemini, Oracle, Infosys, etc. The PSU’s like ISRO, IOCL, HPCL, NCCBM also participated in the campus placement drive.

Hyderabad University provides great exposer for research and future employment opportunities in various R&D and Government sectors. Between Hyderabad University and IIT Bhubaneswar, the former would be a better choice for pursuing a M.Sc in Chemistry.
 

IIT BHU and IIT Bhubaneswar are ranked 11th and 22nd respectively by the engineering category NIRF 2020.

IIT BHU being an older institute does have a large alumni network which results in good placements but it lacks modern infrastructure which is better in IIT Bhubaneswar. Being a new IIT, IIT Bhubaneswar has better hostels than any other IITs. Thus in terms of infrastructure, IIT Bhubaneswar is better than IIT BHU.

IIT BHU is located in Varanasi which is not the capital city of Uttar Pradesh but IIT Bhubaneswar is located in the capital city of Orissa giving it the advantage of better connectivity with the metropolis, airport and as a result, it attracts more multinational companies.

The closing rank in IIT BHU for CS is under 1000 and that of IIT Bhubaneswar is under 2500. Thus students with a better rank often choose IIT BHU. Coding Culture, Faculty, etc. are also better in IIT BHU.

Placements are also better in IIT BHU for Computers than IIT Bhubaneswar. But despite being a newly established institute the first batch in Computers of IIT Bhubaneswar got placed with an average salary package of 15 lakhs per annum.

So, IIT BHU is a better choice for computer compared to IIT Bhubaneswar is also worth considering because their Computer Engineering department is the most popular. In 2019 placement in Computer Engineering was 100%.

ECE is one of the new branches at IIT Bhubaneswar. The first batch of ECE will be out in 2020. Before 2016, electrical engineering in IIT Bhubaneswar was a combination of two streams EEE and ECE. After 2016, both of these courses were divided and a good number of core and software companies hired electrical engineers from IIT Bhubaneswar. The average placement package offered in 2019 was 11 LPA.

On the other hand, IIIT Hyderabad has witnessed domestic and international placement offers in 2020. There was a huge growth in the placement package from top recruiters namely Adobe, Google, Uber, Amazon, etc. The highest package offered in the year 2020 was 46 LPA and the average package was 21 LPA. A total of 117 companies visited the campus with 289 students getting placed in reputed companies. The students from the CSE department of IIIT Hyderabad received more placements than other sectors with an average package of 26 LPA. The students graduating with CLD can follow a career path in research and in top technology companies.

So, among these two, IIIT-H CLD has a slight edge over IIT Bhubaneswar ECE.