MNNIT Allahabad is known across India for its engineering courses. However, it does offer many other post-graduate courses such as MCA.

The very first question you should ask yourself is if you deserve IIT or you can settle with MNNIT. No doubt MNNIT Allahabad is a good college but it should align with your expectations.

Here are some of the things that you should know about the MCA program at MNNIT.

Hostel:

The MCA students get the mega hostel of MNNIT Allahabad along with the first-year B.Tech (engineering) students. The mega hostel is the best hostel amongst all other hostels at the institute.

Placements:

Most of the companies allow MCA students to sit for their placement process. Placement is good and the salary you will receive is totally dependent on your skills and learning. Here is the placement data of MCA students for the year 2020.

The most important thing is that you should come here to learn as much as possible. You will surely get good placements if you have the required skills.

MNNIT Allahabad is ranked 48th among top engineering institutes in India by MHRD’s 2020 NIRF rankings. The 2 years of M.Tech specializations offered by MNNIT in Mechanical Engineering (ME) include Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing, Design, Production Engineering, Product Design & Development, and Part-Time Production Engineering.

NIT Bhopal is ranked 65th among top engineering institutes in India by MHRD’s 2020 NIRF rankings. It offers 4 years B.Tech in ECE with a total of 139 seats currently. The 2 years M.Tech in ECE offers specializations in two fields viz., Digital communication and VLSI & embedded systems. The entire faculty of the ECE department holds a doctorate in their respective fields.

Admission Process and Cut-off:

• Both the NITs consider JEE Main score for B.Tech and GATE score for M.Tech admissions.Admission for B.Tech is offered via JoSAA and that for M.Tech via CCMT.

The cut off for JEE Main 2019 (round 7) of is as follows:

Placement:

The mechanical branch usually gets lesser core companies as compared to ECE and have to appear for non-core placement companies.

• MNNIT Allahabad:
  • ME branch gets core companies like Tata Motors, Tata Power, Tata Steel, Tata Chemicals Limited, L&T, General Motors, Ashok Leyland, BHEL, HPCL, DRDO, IOCL, GAIL, etc.
  • The placement percentage for the year 2019 was 93.64% of the ME branch.
  • The average salary package offered in 2019 was 6.94 lakhs and the maximum package offered was 17.3 lakhs.
• NIT Bhopal:
  • Toppr, JP Morgan, Samsung, Airtel, Nokia, John Deere, Cognizant, Wipro, etc. visit the campus for the ECE branch.
  • The placement percentage for the year 2018 was 91.04% of the ECE branch.
  • The average salary package offered in 2019 was 5.87 lakhs and the maximum package offered was 13 lakhs.

The choice of opting for either ME at MNNIT Allahabad or ECE at NIT Bhopal entirely lies with the students wanting to pursue it. Both of them are entirely different courses offered by nationally ranked institutes, hence should be opted by considering the stated facts and statistics.

All of these colleges have good rankings for their BTech courses and offer good placement opportunities to their engineering students.

• MNNIT was ranked at 14 in the Top Public colleges in India 2020 by India Today and 19 for B.Tech in India 2019 by The Week.
• IIIT Allahabad on the other hand was ranked 9 by India Today and 103 by NIRF for its B.Tech Course.
• DTU has an upstanding ranking record as it was ranked at 1 by The Times Of India and 36 by NIRF in India 2020 for its B.Tech course.
• ISM Dhanbad was ranked at 13 by The Week and 12 by NIRF in India 2020 for its B.Tech Course.

A comparison is presented below to explain the factors to be considered while choosing an engineering course from these universities.

Campus Placement:

MNNIT Allahabad –

• A total of 285 companies visited MNNIT’s campus for recruitment in 2019 and out of the eligible 1174 students, 792 were placed.
• The highest package offered in 2019 being INR 36 LPA.
• The median salary offered is around INR 8 LPA.

IIIT Allahabad –

• In the recent placements, IIIT Allahabad held a 96% placement rate with the highest package offered of INR 43 LPA.
• Whereas, the median salary was recorded around 12.9 LPA.

DTU –

Outlook India ranked DTU as 1 college in the placement category.

• The placement cell of DTU has a stellar record by achieving 100% placement in the previous years.
• In 2019, 323 companies visited DTU and the highest package offered was a whopping INR 1.02 Cr. (PA).
• The median salary of DTU is around 9 LPA.

ISM Dhanbad -

• IIT Dhanbad has a dedicated placement cell known as the Career Development Centre through which students have been successfully placed at various organizations including top giants such as Deloitte, Presidency University, Amazon, BYJUs Learning, Vedanta, Tesco, JCB, Infosys, Microsoft, and many more.
• The highest package offered in 2019 placements was INR 39.50 LPA.
• Whereas, the median salary offered was around 8.50 LPA.

There are numerous placement and scholarship opportunities available in these colleges, however, it depends more on the student’s interest and feasibility.

Production Engineering is the course for creating safe and efficient processes and transforming raw materials into finished items. IT Dual degree aims for doing collaborative projects under foreign universities. 

MNNIT Allahabad ranks 48th among the top private engineering colleges as per NIRF 2020 ranking. This institute provides top quality placements of 100% for all departments.

IIITM Gwalior is IT-oriented and ranks 100 among the top engineering colleges in India as per NIRF 2020 ranking. This institute always maintains above 90% placement by providing jobs in top-quality MNCs. 

Admission Process 

IIITM Gwalior:-

• The primary eligibility criteria is a minimum of 75% marks in 10+2.
• The final selection of the candidates depends on the JEE Main scores.

MNNIT Allahabad:-

• The primary eligibility criteria is a minimum of 75% marks in 10+2.
• The final selection of the candidates depends on the JEE Main scores.

Placements:-

MNNIT Allahabad is one of the best engineering institutes in North India. 792 students bagged placements in top-notch MNCs in 2019. 

In the 2019-20 placement session, more than 200 students were placed in top-notch MNCs. A total of 18% students were offered PPOs. More than 65 recruiters participated in the campus recruitment who offered 70 students a package above INR 10 LPA.

The top companies are Amazon, Citrix, Cipla, Dell, Google, Infosys, Deloitte, Airtel, Britannia, Accolite, etc. 

Faculty:-

The faculties of both the institutes are very much helpful towards their students. They are very much renowned for their research works. They always help the students for get jobs during their campus placements. 

IIITM Gwalior is a far better choice than MNNIT Allahabad. IIITM Gwalior is way ahead than MNNIT Allahabad in terms of placements. It is because the job opportunities after pursuing IT/CSE course from IIITM Gwalior is plenty and provides tremendous scope in future.

Both NIT Warangal and MNNIT Allahabad are prestigious colleges in India, offering various undergraduate courses. NITs are always a good option in terms of placement, fees, faculty, and facilities. According to NIRF ranking 2020, NIT Warangal and MNNIT Allahabad stand at 26th and 48th rank respectively. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic both the colleges have maintained a good placement record. A total of 792 and 732 undergraduates were placed from MNNIT and NIT Warangal respectively.

Admission:

• The admission criteria remain the same for all NITs that are for admission into undergraduate courses students need to apply for JEE mains.

• For Postgraduate courses, students need to appear for the GATE exam. Admission will be done purely on the basis of rank obtained by the student.

• NIT Warangal has a total of 120 seats in the Mechanical branch and the cut-off rank is 6068-9243.

• MNNIT Allahabad has a total of 180 seats in the ECE branch and the cut-off rank is 4615-6752.

Faculty:

• NIT Warangal has more than 300 faculties and most of them are Ph.D. holders from national and international universities in their respective fields.

• On the other hand, MNNIT also has a good number of faculty guiding their students for the purpose of placement, research and development, excellent academics, and a lot more.

Course fees:

The course fee of the NITs is quite affordable. Students who avail the hostel and mess have a pay a bit more than the day borders.

Placements:

Both the NITs have an impressive placement record of placing more than 95% of its students.

• NIT Warangal has placed 80% of its students from the mechanical branch. The highest package offered was 11 LPA and the median package offered was 7 LPA. More than 150 companies visited the college for the placement drive.

• MNNIT has placed 116 students from the ECE branch. The highest package offered was 25.33 LPA and the median was 11 LPA. More than 200 companies visited the college for the placement drive.

Apart from academics, these colleges focus on extracurricular activities that include an annual tech-fest(eye-catching feature). Experienced faculty help the students in research and development. Both the NITs are a good option which can be proved because of its national rankings.

These three NITs are oldest and top notch, on the basis of NIRF rank NIT Rourkela is place in top 19 position but in another way NIT Allahabad (MNNIT) is the 1st NIT in India which offer engineering program in computer science so their alumni strength much higher than other NITs.

Tabulated below are the course highlights as provided by both the institutes:

Faculty:

MNNIT has excellent faculty members as compared to NIT Rourkela (22 faculties) and NIT Durgapur (15- 20 faculties) which are about 30 teaching staffs having experience in various fields of computer science.

Eligibility:

The eligibility criteria is but similar for three of these national institutes:

Cut-off:

Placement

MNNIT and NIT Raurkela are providing the average salary of 15.1 LPA whereas the recruiters at NIT Durgapur are offering an average salary package of about 9.09 LPA. So this means the MNNIT and NIT Raurkela at the placement level are better than NIT Durgapur.

To know which institution to be preferred, let us start with the rankings of both of them. #48^th is the ranking of MNNIT by NIRF for the year 2020 and on the other hand #103 is the ranking of IIIT Allahabad by NIRF for the same year. Now you can see some other factors to decide which institution can be preferred over the other.

Admissions

MNNIT:

• It is necessary to complete 10+2 in Science stream and acquiring a minimum of 75% marks in the examination.
• JEE MAINis the entrance exam for the institution.
• 1st-yearfee for the institution isRs 84,666
• General students’ cut-off for other state is from 3133 to 4986 and for home state it is starting from 4057 and ending at 5697.

IIIT Allahabad:

• With PCM as the subject, the candidate has to complete 10+2 acquiring a minimum of 60%.
• JEE Mainis considered as the entrance exam for the institution.
• ? 143,700 is the first year fee for the IT course.
• General students’ cut-off starts from 1291 and ends at 5330 (in the year 2019)

Some basic highlights about the institutions are as follows:

Placements:

IIIT Delhi:

• The placement rate of the institute is 95%.
• Some of the top recruiters of the institutions are Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Linkedin, Zomato, Walmart Labs, Zendrive, CodeNation, Arista Networks, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, etc.

MNNIT Allahabad:

• The placement rate of MNNIT Allahabad is 95.56%.
• Top recruitersof MNNIT Allahabad is Indian Navy, Dell, Canon, BHEL, E-bay, Adobe, Bharat Institute of Technology, etc. followed by frequently visiting companies like Google, INFOYSIS, Amazon, Flipkart, HCL, Axis bank, Dell, E-bay, Cisco, etc.

Now based on all the above-mentioned data, the candidate can compare and come to the conclusion. Other factors that can be made into considerations are city life (which will be almost equivalent for both of them), faculties (highly qualified teachers are there in both the institutions), campus life, hostel facilities, etc. But at the end of the day, it is the subject and the interests of the students that matters for a successful future. IT is a good subject regarding future and the candidate can choose whichever institution suits him/her better.

According to NIRF Engineering ranking 2020, NIT Trichy stands at 12th position, on the other hand, MNNIT secures an impressive 48th rank. Both the colleges boast to have placed 90% of its students in the recruitment process.

Admission:

• Students get admission into NITs based on their JEE(for undergraduates) main rank. A good score would help them to secure a place.

• Candidates must have passed 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics with 75% marks.

• For MTech, students need to apply for GATE, followed by CCMT counseling.

• The cut-off rank for BTech CSE at NIT Trichy and at MNNIT Allahabad is 280-1373 and 1269-3101respectively.

Facilities:

• Facilities available at NIT Trichy include a modern central library with a collection of more than 2 lakh books, cafeteria, computer center- THE OCTAGON, transport, hostel, and mess.

• MNNIT has a total of 7 hostels, book and stationery shop, digital library, guest room, free internet connectivity, student club, and a lot more.

Fees:

NITs have an affordable fee structure for their students. Colleges also give scholarships to their students. Day boarders pay a little less than those who avail the hostel and mess facility.

Faculty:

• NIT Trichy has experienced facilities that graduated from IITs and NITs, which include 358 professors out of which 267 are Ph.D. holders.

• MNNIT Allahabad has a good number of faculties that include highly qualified Ph.D. holders from relevant fields.

Placements:

NIT Trichy:

• In the recent placements, a total of 220 companies visited NIT Trichy.

• 100% placement was recorded in the Computer Science branch.

• The highest package offered was INR 40 lakhs. Prominent recruiters include Infosys, TCS, and Facebook.

MNNIT Allahabad:

• In the recent placement drive, a total of 792 students were placed. 97.60% of students were placed from the Computer science branch.

• The highest package offered to the CSE students was INR 36 LPA and the average package was INR 15 LPA.

These colleges do give exposure to research and development. It solely depends on the candidate to choose the college according to their preference.