For VLSI, IIT Roorkee and IIT Hyderabad both offer good placement packages. Intel, Qualcomm, Semiconductor, NVIDIA, Samsung Semiconductor are the major recruiters for VLSI at IIT Roorkee. As per the IIT Roorkee VLSI placement of the last few years, the salary packages range between INR 7-20 LPA.
The placement rate for the VLSI branch at IIT Hyderabad is around 100%. According to IIT Hyderabad placement 2019, the median CTC for the VLSI branch was INR 12.50 LPA.
Among these options, IIT Roorkee ECE is better. Choosing ECE will give you more career options. Owing to its existence of over 173 years, IIT Roorkee has a well-developed alumni base. You can leverage this advantage to get better placement and project opportunities. According to the highlights of IIT Roorkee, around 99% of students get placed from the ECE branch. The highest CTC for the branch is around INR 1.4 Crores per annum.
IIT Roorkee has an active coding culture. Students of the institute have dominated the major competitive coding forums.
If you want to see rank-wise, of course, IIT Roorkee is the best option and you will notice a difference in a variety of parameters, but IIT Hyderabad is also a good option because it has good faculty members and offers all advanced courses. Placements are also good here. As a result, both are relatively similar.
Both are excellent Mtech programs, but IIT Roorkee has an advantage over IIT Hyderabad due to the older IIT and its superior research environment.
To make it easier, I have drawn a comparison between the two institutes based on the most common parameters
IIT Roorkee is clearly the winner here and I would recommend you to go for it if you want to explore maximum opportunities.
The following are the important dates for the admission in IIT Roorkee in 2020.
Event |
Date |
JEE Advanced Registration |
01 April - 06 May, 2020 |
NATA Registration ( Stage 1: Revised) |
27 Jan - 15 Apr, 2020 |
NATA Registration Stage 2 |
01 Feb - 04 May, 2020 |
NATA Exam Stage 2 |
31 May, 2020 |
MTech and M.Arch Registration |
20 Mar - 23 Apr, 2020, 08 Feb - 23 Apr, 2020 |
MBA Registration |
05 Jan - 31 Jan, 2020 |
PhD Registration Last Date |
21 April, 2020 |
CAT Registration |
07 Aug - 25 Sep, 2019 |
CAT Exam |
24 Nov, 2019 |
JEE Advanced Exam |
27 Sep, 2020 |
IIT JAM Registration |
24 May, 2020 |
Timeline for 7th Round of admission offers |
22 Jul - 29 July, 2020 |
Admission Registration |
02 Aug - 03 Aug, 2020 |
Release of admission offer spot round 1 |
04 Jul - 07 Aug, 2020 |
Release of admission offer spot round 2 |
10 Aug - 11 Aug, 2020 |
Admission process closes |
14 Aug, 2020 |
It is tough to pick one from IIT BHU electrical engineering, IIT Bhubaneswar CSE, IIT HYD mechanical engineering, IIT Roorkee applied mathematics. As your choice, of course, is different and each choice has its own merits.
According to the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2019, IIT BHU ranks at 14. EE graduates at BHU have the opportunity of having companies which come to recruit from ECE and CSE departments as well besides their own companies. Students of EE at IIT BHU got job offers in big companies like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Samsung, etc. According to the 2019 placement report, 88 students got placement from EE at this IIT.
Although it’s a new IIT, IIT Bhubaneswar is doing quite well placement wise. The placement record of 2019 shows, 100% of CSE students got a placement offer in IIT Bhubaneswar.
IIT Hyderabad is a big name among Indian IITs. According to NIRF 2019 Ranking, IIT Hyderabad was ranked at 7. The students from Mechanical Engineering in IIT Hyderabad got placements with an average of 15.82 LPA according to the 2019 placement report.
Despite being an Integrated M.Sc (non-engineering) course, placement for Applied Mathematics in IIT Roorkee is very good. Rather it is better than many of the B.Tech courses the institute offers. Companies like Adobe, Amazon India, American Express India, Axtria India Pvt. Ltd, Cisco Systems, Dunnhumby IT Services India Pvt. Ltd, Genpact, etc are the top recruiters for applied mathematics. Adobe recruits top 2 rankers each year at about 38 lakhs per annum. IIT Roorkee does not reveal its placement packages, but the average package for Applied Mathematics is well above 12 lakhs per annum.
All of these are good options with different perks. So, choose wisely based on the course that you are interested in.
The major factor that drives the decision of which course to pursue is the placements.
Chemical Engineering- IIT Roorkee
As per the 2018-19 placements record, more than 250 companies participated in campus placements, some of them were ITC, Reliance, Jindal Steel, TATA, and many more. Chemical Engineering Students at IIT Roorkee recorded an average placement of INR 13.05 lakhs per annum. A total of 8 PPOs were offered to Chemical Engineering students. Roles were offered for Technologist, Researcher, Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Consultant, etc. The placement rate for Chemical Engineering was around 80%.
ECE at IIT Bhubaneswar
ECE is one of the new branches of IIT Bhubaneswar and was introduced in 2016. Due to this, the first batch to pass out would be the batch of 2020. So there are no past records for this course. However, seeing the trend of placements for electrical engineering, the same can be assumed for ECE as well. In the year 2018-2019, 86% of the Electrical Engineering Department was placed. Companies like Amazon, INTEL Technology, ISRO, DELL, Thermax, Tata Steel, and many more visited to recruit students during campus placements. The average placement was recorded at INR Rs. 11.44 lakhs per annum.
EEE at IIT Mandi
As per 2019-20 placements, 62.5% of EEE were placed during phase-1 of campus placements. A total of 75 companies visited the campus and some of the top recruiters were Accenture, Wipro, CISCO, ISRO, CSC India, Siemens to name a few. The average package offered was 13.5 lakhs per annum. Several PPOs were also offered.
Considering the placements data, you should choose Chemical Engineering at IIT Roorkee. However, the final decision of which course and college to select rests up to you.
Infrastructure isn’t a key parameter for CSE. So, if you are interested in pursuing Computer Science, you can consider 2nd generation IITs like Patna, and Bhubaneswar. The quality of academics won’t vary much compared to older IITs.
For CSE, what matters more is your knowledge and skills, rather institute name. If you are among the top 10% of your class, you can compete with top rankers from old IITs.
CSE is a branch with unlimited opportunities and wide scope to explore. Opting for a CSE branch at a new IIT will surely let you explore many opportunities and will provide a good package as well. Looking at the placement statistics, IIT Jodhpur offers 16.73 LPA of average package whereas IIT Bhubaneshwar offers an average package of 11.44 LPA for CSE students. Both the IITs have placed 100% of their students, as per record of 2019. If you are interested to pursue CSE as your domain in graduation then preferring CSE at new IITs would be better.
Whereas, if you have an interest in research and pure Mathematics then you should opt for ‘Applied Mathematics’ at IIT Roorkee. IIT Roorkee offers two courses in Applied Mathematics viz. ‘Integrated M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics)’ of 5 years and ‘Two years M.Sc. (Mathematics)’ of 2 years. There are 30 seats in total for this course and the average package offered during placement is around 14.73 LPA. Companies like Adobe recruits 2 students each year offering the package of 38 LPA. Other companies that come for placement are Accenture, Goldman Sach Services, American Express, De Shaw. Moreover, top core IITs provide many opportunities in curricular activities too.
IIT KGP Mechanical is the best option among these. It is the oldest among these institutes and ranks in the top 5 technological institutes in the country consistently. So, you will have the leverage of better brand recognition.
The placement rate for Mechanical students is around 75%. Companies like Tata Motors, Mercedes, etc. visit IIT Kharagpur placements to recruit Mech students. The average package offered for this branch is around INR 12 LPA. The highest CTC offered goes up to INR 32 LPA.