IIEST Shibpur holds rank #21 according to the NIRF ranking 2020. The admission is based on JEE Main/WB JEE scores and followed by counseling and interview. For graduate courses, GATE scores are the basis for admission.

NIT Durgapur holds #47 rank according to NIRF 2020 ranking. The admission for undergraduate students is based on JEE results, followed by counseling. NIT Durgapur offers 90 seats for B-tech from electrical engineering.

Admission process:

IIEST Shibpur

• The application process is fully online and the application fee for general is 1,500 and for reserved students, it is 1,000 INR.
• Admission for undergraduate programs is based on JEE Mainand students are required to have at least 45% marks in the 12th board and 40% for SC and ST.
• One must have Physics, Maths, and chemistryin the 12th board.
• Admission for the graduate programs is based on GATE scores and followed by an interview.
• A total of 60 seats are available in the institute.

NIT Durgapur

• The application process is both online and offline. The application fee for ECE/EE is 1000 INR.
• Admission for undergraduate program is based on the results of JEE Mains and also with this, students are required to complete their 10+2 with at least 75% and 65% for ST, SC, and physically challenged
• One must have Physics and Maths in the 12th board.
• A total of 90 seats are available in the institute.

Placements:

IIEST Shibpur

• The major recruiters are Tata Steel, EXL, ZS, Vedanta, L&T, IBM, Infosys, Wipro, etc.
• The average salary of a student graduate from this Institute is 5.5 lakhs.

NIT Durgapur

• Companies like Amazon, axis bank, L&T Ecc, TATA, IBM, and so on visits campus every year for placements.
• The average salary package is of about 10 lakhs in the field of electrical engineering.The highest package was offered by Qualcomm is 24 lakhs.

Both the Institute are good choices for doing ECE/EE with excellent facilities likehuge libraries, good laboratories, classrooms, Wi-Fi hotspots.In NIT Durgapur, the E-study facility is also there. The faculty of both the Institute is equally good with highly qualified teachers. Top recruiters visit the campus every year for placements.

CSE is one of the trending and evergreen programs with huge demand. However, IIEST and VIT both offer excellent career opportunities in CSE. The ranking of the IIEST is 19 by NIF in the engineering category. Whereas, VIT has ranked in 18th position by NIRF. Here is more about each college in detail.

IIEST, Shibpur-

Admissions & fee:

• The college accepts students based on the intermediate and JEE Main performance. Students should at least score 50% in 10+2. In 2019 the JEE Main closing cut-off for CSE was 4978-9379.

• The college has 60 seats for the CSE program.

• The first year fee at the campus is about 1.37 lakhs. However, students can avail of several scholarships during their academic years.

Placements:

• The minimum and maximum salary of the students is 39.12 LPA and 9 LPA respectively.

• The total number of offers in CSE from top companies is 82. Out of which, 51 students are placed in the top companies.

• The companies visiting the campus are Accenture, BHEL, Google, Microsoft, Deloitte, Foster Wheeler, Odessa Technologies, Infosys, Hindustan Motors, Indian Navy, etc.

VIT-

Admissions:

• The campus accepts students based on the VITEEE and intermediate scores. The minimum cut-off ranking of the VITEEE is 15,000.

• The total seats in CSE are 722 with a fee of 1.98 lakhs. Like IIEST, VIT students can also avail of several scholarships.

Placements:

• The highest and average salary of the students is 41.60 LPA and 6.05 LPA respectively.

• The VIT has the highest record in placement rates and offers. The college received over 8000 offers in 2016. Recently, it got over 7000 offers.

• The companies visiting the campus are Wipro, TCS, Intel, Infosys, Cognizant, Udaan, Accenture, Bank of America, etc.

This is all about the CSE at both institutions. As for which institute will be better, it all depends on the individual choice based on several factors as mentioned above. So, choose the college that best suits you based on your preferences.

VNIT, Nagpur and IIEST, Shibpur are two prime institutes of the nation and rank highly. Each has its own unique attractions and disadvantages. MME and ETC are highly demanded courses. While IIEST offers 64 seats for ETC, VNIT offers 115 seats for MME. NIRF has ranked IIEST at 21 whereas VNIT ranked at 27 among the NIRF Rankings

About the courses:

• ETC graduates can work in various government jobs and a variety of development centers dealing in sales, manufacture, and services of electronics & communication customer appliances.

• MME is a branch of engineering that is in huge demand. Metallurgical students can get placed in various research programs or the public and government sectors.

Admission:

• The admission to both institutes is done on the basis of rank secured in the national level entrance examination i.e. JEE Main.

• To be eligible for admission, one must secure 75% marks in aggregate in their intermediate graduation.

Placement Statistics

• IIEST: The highest package offered to IIEST students was INR 39.12 LPA. 61.9% of the ETC students were placed. Some major companies that recruit students from IIEST are Accenture, ICICI Bank, Cognizant, Microsoft, Maruti, and PWC.

• VNIT: The highest package offered in campus placements was 22 LPA. 50% of the MME students were placed in recruitments. Top recruiters at this institute include L&T ECC, Reliance Industries, Deloitte, JP Morgan, Aditya Birla Group.

Facilities

• IIEST: The institute offers facilities such as halls of residence, Library, Labs, Canteen, School, etc. It also provides medical facilities like hospitals and ambulances, sports and games clubs, and entrepreneurship activities.

• VNIT: Students are offered Hostels, Guesthouse, Gymnasium, Sports, Health Centre, and Library facilities within the 215 acres campus. There are clubs and community shops as well.

Students must compare both the programs and colleges carefully. The decision depends on an individual’s capabilities and expectations from college life.

Nowadays the colleges which are providing good campus placements with high salary packages are ranked higher than the colleges which are providing quality education. Colleges like VIT/BIT provide good campus placements but impose less focus on academics. They have hired placement officers who try to contact all types of recruiters through social network sites and then invite them for campus placements. 

Colleges like IISC Bangalore are considered as the best institute of Engineering even better than top IITs, not because of campus placements or providing higher compensation. It earned that reputation by providing quality education.

Placements nowadays are purely based on good networking with big corporations and recruiters and making them happy. This can only be done by the placement cell of the colleges. However, IIEST Shibpur is an institution that still only relies upon the quality of education that is imparted to students. 

Marketing has become an important aspect for the colleges. The colleges not only have to promote the college but they will have to market the students as well in order to get them good placements.

IIEST being a good quality institution has developed world leaders in engineering background. But it will also need to improve its marketing and networking strategies in order to provide better placements in the market. In the next 4 years competition will be fierce in the campus placements and the colleges will have to do the same in order to survive in the market.

Also, another fact that’s worth mentioning is that IIEST Shibpur is considered as an ‘Indian Institute’ and ‘Institute of National Importance’ now, for its contribution to the Engineering field of over 160 years. With this stature, placements are likely to improve as reputed IITs or NITs.

In the 2015 Batch, there were 3 students from the Computer science branch, who went abroad. One of them went to Washington for a direct Ph.D., another went to CMU for MS and a guy went to John Hopkins for MS.

In the Electrical Engineering branch, one guy went to Denmark Technical University, another guy went to Florida State University for MS (Unfunded) in the 2015 batch. 

You can go to a lot of places unfunded. With good grades, you can get funding via direct Ph.D. work on internships and projects. Work in getting good Letter of Recommendations from professors. Try to make good relations with all professors.

If you persevere enough yes, you can go. Otherwise, your best chance would be via M.Tech at IISC, IITs, etc, and then Ph.D. abroad.