It completely depends on whether you are a girl or a boy. If you are a girl, then you can enjoy the following things:

• Pastry from Brubeck
• Pizza from Dominos
• Enjoy golgappe from the renowned Kamaani Centre.
• Try cold coffee and thandai from Sardarjee ki shop at Bistupur Market.
• Besides, you can also visit the mandir, in front of the NIT gate, before attending the classes in the morning.

Now, if you are a boy, then you can enjoy whatever you wish to.

• You can enjoy tiffin with heavy Mughlai Paratha. You have to wash your jeans on your own in the evening.
• You can also have philosophical discussions by sitting on the roller of Ups ground.
• Another enjoyable thing you can enjoy is the Batolabaazi, which means you can gossip with your brainless friends about mindless topics.

Thus, you can do a lot of things during your weekend breaks.

• You can visit Jubilee Park, which is the main attraction of the city, Jamshedpur. This place will give them natural peace, besides; students can also enjoy boat riding in the Jayanti Sarovar Lake. There is also a zoo, and the student can explore many things here.
• Recently, a big mall, namely P&M HI-TECH has been set up here.

There are also good restaurants, Blue Diamond and Delhi Darbar, which are the best place for a weekend visit. However, there is also KFC and Dominos in sakchi and Bistupur respectively.

Lastly, if you want to do some cloth marketing, You can visit Bistupur Market. However, for books and daily essentials, you have to go to Sakchi. There are also a good collection of books in Agarwal Book Store, and for stationary Maha Lakshmi Stores. 

According to one of my friends, who is an alumnus of Thapar University, the integrated program involving BE and MBA is mostly preferred by the students nowadays over many other branches like civil, chemical, mechanical, and many others. At the same time, computer science or electronics plus MBA is a good option to take your career ahead as you may be well aware of the popularity of the computer science branch at Thapar University. Also, there is a benefit of not giving competitive exams such as CAT or GMAT.

The students who remain in the turmoil of giving entrance exams and don't want to write the national level exams or are afraid of not getting LM Thapar according to the marks scored in entrance exams, mostly prefer this course.

Since the course is newly introduced by the university, it will take time to settle and as soon as the stream settles down, automatically the cut-off will go high.

As for why this course has low priority among students, it’s just a mindset problem and has nothing to do with the course or university.

The placement scenario in the institute with respect to different streams in the year 2019-20 was quite attractive. The situation was not good 5 years ago. The companies were not that interested towards the institute. 

The prominent details regarding placement in this year are as follows:

Close to 70 students bagged up a package of more than INR 10LPA. They have established a good position in the top multinationals.

The primary recruiters are Acxiom, HCL, Samsung, PWC, American Express, Amazon, Cashify, Dell, IBM, Microsoft, Newgen. Microsoft, Optum, Amazon, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Urban Clap were the major companies that can be looked up to for better records.

Apart from placements internships also gave a good impact in which 102 people got their opportunity. The internships have given an immense exposure to individuals in order to set up a good base in the industrial sectors.

IITM has set up a decent placement record in the past 2-3 years. It has made good networking with different industries in the sector. Therefore choosing any course with the institute would land you up in a better career ahead having more possibilities.

Both SJMSOM and IIM Indore are distinguished B-Schools in this league. IIM is a brand name on its own and offers certain perks that make it a better choice. 

• Specialization: SJMSOM is known for its Operations and IT/Analytics/Consulting. Most of the students remain confused in choosing their specialization and tend to delve into their options at the end of their first year. This can be quite helpful if you want to explore your options in the first year and then choose a specialization. 
• Placements: The factor that affects placements is the batch size. The less the batch size the more efficiently and steadily the placements are done with. Often IIM Indore completes their placement before SJMSOM and other IIMs. However, the competition at IIM Indore is high. According to the recent placement highlights the average CTC offered at SJMSOM and IIM Indore is 20 LPA and 23 LPA. 
• Campus: IIM Indore has a splendid campus situated out of the city. The campus is huge and is one of the best campuses in India. At SJMSOM, the campus is to be shared with engineering students. However, this is not much of a problem for students. IIM Indore also provides more extracurricular opportunities.

Hopefully, this would be helpful for you in making the right choice.

One of my friends studied at Thapar University. According to him, pursuing MCA at Thapar might not be a good choice. This is because a B.Tech in CSE graduate is always preferred over an MCA degree.

• During placement interviews, the panelists will see in your resume that you have a BCA or B.Sc. degree in CSE.
• Due to this, most of them assume that you didn't get an opportunity to study B.Tech so you chose BCA.
• They tend to lean on B.Tech graduates, as they will help maintain the reputation of the firm.
• The thing you can do after BCA is to get a lateral entry and obtain a diploma in CSE.
• After that, you can try to take admission in the 2nd year of the B.Tech program at Thapar.
• This will help you secure a better job opportunity than an MCA degree.
• An MCA degree from Thapar will get you a salary package of 5-10 LPA.
• A B.Tech degree will get you a 15-25 LPA salary package.

MCA at Thapar is way better than many other colleges like CGC Landran, Chandigarh University, etc. But it is important to remember that the recruiter at any IT company will always differentiate between an MCA graduate and a B.Tech CS graduate.