To prepare for any Civil Services Examination, you will have to take a PG apartment. Make sure that the environment around the PG is very quiet and there are no noises around. This will help you in concentrating on your studies. 

The campus hostels are also good. Every year many students qualify for CAT, GATE, IES, and many other competitive examinations. But off-campus PG will be more preferable for you.

You can take your graduation subject like Civil or Mechanical Engineering as your optional subject in the Civil Service examinations. These branches have good faculty members. 

If you want to take non-engineering subjects branches to prepare, you can go for CS/IT branches. These branches have few classes and you can get ample time for preparations. The placements in these branches are also good. The college curriculum is not very hectic and you can easily continue your preparation.

Having friends in these institutions, I am well aware that HBTU Kanpur is much better than IIIT Bhopal and IET Lucknow. Though one thing has been seen that the performance of the CSE department is generally the same in all the colleges. They all provide enough industry exposure to the students. 

This table might help you in seeing the basic differences between these institutions - 

It is advised to join HBTU Kanpur or IET Lucknow than IIIT Bhopal, as the former are an older establishment than the latter which is comparatively new. Classes at IIIT Bhopal are scheduled according to MANIT Bhopal. Also the students are provided RGPV hostels. So it will be better if you go for HBTU.

Yes, internal sliding is done before the sport counselling in the IET Lucknow. College will release a notice regarding the internal sliding, you just apply to that. The remaining seats are fulfilled through spot counselling.

• The internal sliding is also conducted in the first year and if you have good marks in the semester then you will get a good branch of your choice.
• The internal sliding is done to fill the seats if they are vacant in a particular branch.
• The UPSEE rank is also taken into consideration.
• Students with better ranks get preference. Although this process is tedious and may take time as well.
• You will have to continue attending classes of your present branch till a new branch is allocated to you.

If the branch is changed then it may happen that you will have to appear for the examination of the new branch without attending any classes. Your teachers and classmates might help you at that point of time.

IET Lucknow earlier used to have a very lenient approach towards attendance. But since the new director has joined the institute, Mr. H.K Paliwal has mandated that students should have an attendance of at least 75% throughout the semester to attend the exams and the tests.

If you have attendance lower than 75% then you may be discarded from giving tests and exams. Even final-year students have suffered from this new rule. So I would suggest not to mess up with this.

Yes, there are many students who were day scholars. A few of them were local and some of them lived outside the IET hostels. Make sure you take a room near the institution. If you plan to stay outside, make sure you are financially stable to keep yourself punctual and healthy.

You will find rooms on a rental basis near your college, check if you can afford to stay there. Plan your finances well. Do not reside further away from the college. If you stay outside hostels, you might face some problems with reasonable food options. Otherwise, everything else will be easy.

HBTU and IET Lucknow both are government colleges and are considered to be tier 3 colleges whereas JSS Noida is a private institute and is considered a Tier 4 college. Normally tier 3 is favored upon tier 4 but in this case, JSS Noida is a very fine institute as of now both in terms of academics and placements.

• Private colleges like JSS Noida offer better opportunities and facilities than government institutes. 
• The placement HBTU and IET Lucknow are the same as JSS Noida. 
• Students from the CSE branch of JSS Noida get into well-based companies and MNCs and are offered packages far better than that of HBTU and IET Lucknow. 
• Normally students from HBTU and IET Lucknow get offered packages worth around 8-10 LPA. 
• This is the same with JSS Noida for other engineering courses but for CSE the packages reach up to 25 LPA.
• Students from Chemical engineering are not employed by any core companies in India as they are very few. 

CSE branch has more value than any other engineering branch. The best option would be CSE from JSS Noida rather than Chemical engineering from HBTU or other engineering branches from IET Lucknow.

First of all, congratulations on securing such a good rank in your examination. With the rank that you have achieved, you can very easily get admission into the CS branch of the institute. The fact that you have the advantage of a good girl’s rank would also increase the probability.

• If still, you are unable to get admission into the institute, don’t worry.
• There are a total of 3 rounds in the counseling process where you would be given the option to choose the float option which would automatically transfer your preference for the next round.
• My cousin secured a girl rank of 98 last year and was eligible for admission into the CS branch of the institute.
• If you get admission into the institute but not in the CS branch in these three-round, you would have the option to appear for the internal sliding program after getting enrolled in the institute.
• IET organizes an internal sliding program every year to fill the vacant seats for several branches.
• For example, if somehow you get admission for the IT branch and you wish to change it to CS, you can participate in the internal sliding program of the institute.

Given below is a table that includes the cutoff details of IET Lucknow in regards to the general rank and general girls rank for your reference (IET Lucknow UPSEE Cut-Off 2021):

The Internal sliding is scheduled within a week from the date of the last round of counseling, so you should always try and keep yourself updated.

Yes, it is possible for you to get admission into IET Lucknow for CSE with an OBC rank of 131. Here is the cutoff trend for CSE (OBC) over the past few years.

The placement in the institute of the branch of CSE is better than all the branches followed by the branch of ECE. The highest package offered by the companies during the placement process of the students of IET Lucknow is INR 36 LPA. The top names that visit the institute for providing jobs are Barclays, Unacademy, Code Nation, etc.

Generally, the only competitors of NITs will be IITs or other NITs. However, NIT Srinagar is not the most reputed NIT & IET Lucknow is a worthy competitor. Both of these are great colleges to pursue a course in CSE.

Admission & Eligibility:

• Admission to NIT Srinagar is through JEE main. Eligibility is a pass with a minimum of 75% marks in 10+2 exams with maths, physics & chemistry.

• Admission to IET Lucknow is through UPSEE. Eligibility is a pass in 10+2 exams with maths, physics & chemistry.

Fee Structure:

• The first-year fee at NIT Srinagar amounts to INR 1.36 lakhs in total and the total fee for 4 years amounts to INR 5.46 lakhs. Hostel fees are extra.

• The total first-year fee that includes tuition, exam fees, and other fees amount to INR 89,775 at IET Lucknow. The total fee for 4 years comes at INR 3.44 lakhs.

Infrastructure:

• IET Lucknow has a fully equipped and air-conditioned computer centre with high-speed internet. Other facilities include separate hostels for girls and boys, a gym, a medical facility, and a bank inside the campus.

• NIT Srinagar, apart from being a scenic place, also has very good infrastructure for CSE students. Other facilities include separate hostels for girls and boys, a sports centre, and a healthcare facility inside the campus.

Placement:

IET Lucknow:

• More than 70 companies visited IET Lucknow this year to offer placement to students.

• The highest number of students that got placed was from the CSE department.

• IET Lucknow students get campus placement opportunities from Adobe, TCS, India Bulls, LAVA, Syntel, Anglo-Eastern, Global Logic, Zia Semiconductor

• The highest CTC package offered was to a CSE student by Byju’s (INR 14 LPA).

• The average CTC offered this year was around INR 7 LPA.

NIT Srinagar:

• NIT Srinagar CSE students usually receive almost 100% placement.

• Major IT companies visit the campus every year to recruit top CSE student talents.

• Some of the famous recruiters are Wipro, Infosys, Amazon, Oracle, Capgemini, Oxigen, Pinnacle, HP, etc.

• The average annual CTC offered is around INR 9 LPA.

• The highest CTC offered was around INR 17 LPA.

The infrastructure and placement rates are very good at either of these colleges. The fees are slightly higher in NIT Srinagar. But the final decision must be taken according to the interest of the student.