One of my friends, who attended IIEST, says that IIEST Shibpur will be a better option than IIIT Vadodara. He also mentions several reasons why. Here is what he has to say,

Institute of National Importance:

IIEST Shibpur is amongst the very few institutes that are at present recognized as an “Institute of National Importance”. There are various other institutes competing for the same status, such as BHU, Jadavpur University, CUSAT, COE Pune, Osmania University, AMU, Andhra University, and more.

Alumni Base:

The institute has a legacy of over 160 years with a wide alumni network spread across the globe who are now engaged with top engineering companies in places like US, UK, Canada, and India as well. A few of them are Dr. Bimal Kumar Bose (USA), Dr. Fazlur Rahman Khan (USA). The directors of IIT Kanpur, IIT Guwahati, NIT Rourkela, and the Vice-Chancellor of SRM University are some of the institute’s alumni.
Several IIEST Alumni from USA, UK, Canada, Europe, Australia, Singapore and Japan also come forward to help regarding cases like Scholarships, Travel Grants, Sponsored Research, Chair Professors, and others to develop the institute more.

Collaborations:

Besides, IIEST Shibpur also collaborates with various top US universities, such as University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA, and University of Wisconsin - Madison USA. It collaborates with top leading universities from places like the USA, UK, Canada, Japan, and Australia to help students pursue their studies abroad.
Having said that, you can visually determine that IIEST Shibpur can be considered better than IIIT Vadodara. It is also partially because IIIT Vadodara is relatively a newly built institute still establishing many sections under it.

Instrumentation and electronics engineering are interdisciplinary branches and you will get knowledge of all the branches in this discipline. You can also sit for almost all the companies during campus placements.

EE is the mother of all branches and scopes will be high after completing this course. The placements in Jadavpur University are far better than IIEST Shibpur.

The placement statistics of Jadavpur University is as follows:

Jadavpur University is better than IIEST Shibpur in terms of placement, research, and academics. Many government organizations also recruit through Jadavpur University.

IT from IIEST Shibpur is a better choice than EC from SVNIT Surat. Both my classmates and I agree to the fact that IIEST Shibpur is a much better institute than SVNIT. The reasons for the same are given below –

• It is a common observation that many of the EC engineering graduates eventually work as software engineers, which is not their core domain.
• IT is very close to CSE in terms of coding and related works. You will definitely learn more in IT rather than EC even if you are interested in software.
• If you want you can learn software development and coding on your own, then go for the EC branch of SVNIT.
• But that will require a lot of effort, time management, and discipline.
• IT at IIEST, Shibpur will also give a mental satisfaction that you are working in the same field as intended while in EC at SVNIT you will probably have to join a job that is not related to your core EC subjects.
• Even if you are passionate about EC, the faculty in this department at SVNIT are not very good. They are too young for the job.
• Of course, there will be seniors and various clubs to help you out but faculty are at the core of any teaching system.

If you are really interested in EC then choose SVNIT. But if you are interested in coding and that is the job you want, then definitely IIEST, Shibpur should be your primary choice.

There is no comparison between IIIT Raipur and IIEST Shibpur for Engineering. IIEST Shibpur is a much older and well established college than IIIT Raipur. Being a student of IIEST Shibpur myself, I can confidently say that the college is much superior when it comes to engineering.

• IIEST offers decent placements due to its strong alumni network and reputation among people.
• According to recent placement statistics, many top recruiters visited during the placement drive including Microsoft, Vedanta, Wipro, Cognizant, Godrej, HSBC Technologies, and many others giving the highest package of INR 39 LPA.
• Lastly, we can say that though IIIT Raipur may be known for its brand it does not stand on the same ranking as the old engineering departments of IIEST.

They produce many well-qualified students in different fields and provide them with many facilities along with placements and even good opportunities for higher studies and research.

No, first-year B.Tech students do not get a single occupancy hostel room. In fact, no government-funded Institute of National Importance will provide you a single occupancy room or AC room at least in the first year.

• The institute has 4 hostels, 3 boys and 1 girl, for first-year students where no senior is allowed to enter.
• All rooms in the boys hostels have to be shared by 4 students while in the girls’ hostel there are two types of rooms; one with 3 students and the other with 4 students sharing.
• The rooms are allotted on a random basis with an emphasis on giving students from the same department to share the rooms.

The rooms are very clean and if you keep them that way, then you won’t have any problem. The rooms are spacious enough as well. In the first and second year sharing rooms will eventually make your group studies more fun. In the third and fourth year, only you will get single occupancy rooms.

Yes, they do conduct tests but it all depends upon which program you are choosing.

• For getting admission for B.Tetch and Architecture course, the college accepts scores of JEE mains.
• For MTech admission, they accept scores of GATE and for MS they accept scores of IIT JAM.
• The college conducts admission tests for only M.sc and Ph.D. programs.
• Among the M.Sc programs, they conduct tests for Math, Physics, Geology, and chemistry.

The JEE mains cut off at IIEST Shibpur for the year 2020 is as follows.

Hope this helps.

IIEST Shibpur will be a better choice than YMCA because it is an old institution. The college provides better placement opportunities than YMCA. IIEST has got 20th rank among top institutions. It has been ranked 7th among the top research institutions.

If you are living in Faridabad and do not want to relocate then it will be a problem. Otherwise, you should choose IIEST Shibpur as it has got a better infrastructure, faculty members, and a learning curriculum.

There is no such branch as IT in YMCA. You will have to select the CS branch in YMCA and for that, you will have to score a rank of 200 in AIEE which will be difficult for you. And if you can score the rank then you can easily crack IIT and move to other good colleges.