IIT Tirupati is the 3rd phase of IITs and it is mentored under IIT Madras. The campus has all the required facilities to cater to the needs of the students like classrooms, central library, and 2 computer labs equipped to perform soft-ware based experiment and programming.

• Faculty: Most of the faculty for the CS department have their own PhDs and are alumni of IISc Bangalore, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Madras, and other reputed institutes.
• Admission: The selection to the CS program is based on the JEE Advanced score and in 2019 the closing cutoff for CS for the institute was 2749-5700.
• Placement: The average salary package of 12 lakhs per annum was offered to the students of the CSE department. The top recruiters included JP Morgan, Qualcomm, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Barclays, Intel, etc.

The ECE department of IIT Bhubaneswar, the School of Electrical Science have good infrastructure and facilities. At present, there are 33 labs well-equipped to carry out any academic projects.

• Admission: The intake of the student to the ECE program is based on the JEE Advanced rank. In 2019 the closing cutoff for ECE at the institute was 2736-6844.
• Placement: The placement record of undergraduate students is about 90% in all streams for IIT Bhubaneswar. ECE has seen 86% placement percentage in 2019. The highest salary package offered was 39 lakhs per annum, whereas the average salary package was around 11 lakhs per annum. WIPRO, Tata Consultancy Services, Samsung, Microsoft, Deloitte, Amazon, Adobe, etc. were the top recruiters.

It is difficult to choose which is the better option as the branches are different. Between the branches, CS offers more opportunities. However, IIT Bhubaneswar has better infrastructure and recognition among the recruiting companies compared to IIT Tirupati. So, choose wisely according to the branch you are interested in.

IIT Gandhinagar is ranked at 20th place in the engineering department by India Today in the year 2017. The qualification criteria for B.Tech course is 10+2 with 75% and a score in JEE Advance. The student intake is 180 every year for the department of the computer science department. The median salary during the academic year 2017 was 7.75 lakh p.a. With the bachelor program in computer science, the institute aims to promote critical thinking and it has recognized strength in algorithms and theoretical computer science, cryptography, data mining, machine learning and is committed to developing in other regions of computing.

On the other hand, India Today positioned IIT Bhubaneswar at 9th place in the engineering department in the year 2019. The eligibility criteria of IIT Bhubaneswar are similar to that of IIT Gandhinagar. The institute offers B.Tech in computer science with a student strength of 40 in the discipline. The overall placement of the institute is 90%, and 100% in the computer science department which is far better than that of IIT Gandhinagar. The highest and average salary offered in 2019 was 39 lakh and 11.44 lakh p.a. respectively. The program is outlined such that it donate a solid foundation of theoretical and practical knowledge in the stream. The students are exposed to application-oriented and fundamental research activities at different stages of their studies at IIT Bhubaneswar.

Drawing a conclusion, IIT Bhubaneswar is better when compared to IIT Gandhinagar, as it has a better placement record and it is ranked in the top 10 institutes in the engineering department by India Today. IIT Bhubaneswar has tuition fees around 2 lakhs p.a. whereas at IIT Gandhinagar the students will have to pay a tuition fee of 2,60,000 p.a.

IIT Mandi completed the placement drive for 2019 with 82% of students successfully placed in the top companies. The institute also witnessed a 50% increase in the average salary offered to the students. A total of 45 companies took part in the 2019 placement drive with the CSE department getting 90% placement. The top recruiters were Wipro, Microsoft, Cortex, Amazon with an average salary of 13.5 LPA. Overall the placement in IIT Mandi is good for the CSE department and the number is slowly increasing every year.

IIT Bhubaneswar witnessed a huge increase in their placement trends. In 2019, around 89 companies visited the campus and 90% of the students got the placements. The CSE department got the 100% placement with an average salary of 10-35 LPA. The top recruiters that participated were Google, Accenture, Amazon, Adobe, Dell, Capgemini, etc. In IIT Bhubaneswar, the CSE department placement from the previous years is good and the placement rate is slowly increasing at a gradual rate.

IIT Jodhpur also released their placement report for 2019. Around 75% of the students got the placement with the CSE department getting the highest placement of 100%. The top companies participated in the campus placements were Microsoft, Google, IBM, Morgan Stanley, etc. The average salary offered to the students was 16 lakhs.

Despite being new IITs, these three IITs are good in terms of placements and academics for CSE. Before choosing among these IITs, you should take advice from the seniors at these institutes, explore different aspects and then choose accordingly.

IT Bhubaneswar has a residential campus and every student is required to stay in the hostel. Be it a B.Tech, M.Tech, Ph.D., or MSc student. Although a student is allowed to stay with his/her parents only in special circumstances if the Dean or Director allows. But it is necessary that your parents should reside inside the institute campus or within a reasonable distance from campus. In case a student is married he or she can apply to stay outside the campus.

IIT Bhubaneswar has two hostels one for girls and one for boys. SHR (Subarnrekha Hall of Residence) is the girl’s hostel and MHR (Mahanadi Hall of Residence) is the boy’s hostel. Two more hostels are being made. Both the hostels are very well built and have modern facilities as it is a newly built campus. Every student is given a single-seater room with a bed, a table chair, and a cupboard. Both the hostels also have gym and TV rooms. The LAN provides high-speed internet.

As it’s a new IIT, the Metallurgy department is still developing in IIT Bhubaneswar. But this department is equipped with state-of-art lab equipment. School of Minerals, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (SMMME) in IIT Bhubaneswar has an excellent fusion of faculty members from diverse backgrounds of minerals, metals, and materials engineering. This school has signed a partnership with the Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (CSIR-IMMT) at Bhubaneswar. There is also a student and faculty exchange program with Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at Warwick University, UK, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Also, according to 2019 placement statistics, 68% of the total M.Tech batch was placed with core and other sectors with salary packages ranging from 10 – 16 lakh per annum.

According to the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2019, IIT BHU ranks at 14. The department of Metallurgy in IIT BHU is well equipped with lab instruments. Being an old IIT it also has great facilities and a large alumni base. Companies like Tata Steel, Tata motors, Saint Gobain, Flipkart, Oyo, Maruti Suzuki, etc visit the campus for placement of M.tech students.

IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT BHU, both the IITs are good choices for doing M.Tech in Metallurgy. So, pick one according to your convenience.

The written test for MTech in Civil Engineering at IIT Bhubaneswar mainly includes questions related to the subject and it follows the syllabus for GATE. There is no negative marking in the test and the question format follows the pattern given below.

• 35 questions (Time-90 minutes)
• 1-20 (1 mark questions)
• 21-35 (2 mark questions)

According to the students who have taken the test before, the test comprises of questions like-

• What is the max liquid limit, plastic limit?
• What is Preconsolidation stress? How is the Preconsolidation ratio calculated?
• What is the stress distribution below a uniform settlement foundation?

Most of the questions asked in the test are from Geotech Engineering and Environment. Others included Building Material, Fluid Mechanics, RCC, Steel Structure, Hydrology, Surveying, Transportation, Structural Analysis, SOM.

The result of the written test is declared within 1 hour of the test and if you are shortlisted you need to get through an interview in order to get admission. The interview can be scheduled on the same day or the day after.

The medical tests is an obvious requirement for admission at IIT Bhubaneswar as given in annexure IV. If by chance, you couldn’t get that done then you can get it from the institutes linked with the hospitals taking these tests.

IIT Bhubaneswar asks about your medical report before you are going for the counselling in a prescribed manner. It is not a hectic process and should not be much of a hassle. It's better that you complete the tests in your home and thus it makes the registration process easier.

You have to take the printout of the form provided by the IIT and visit the nearest government hospital. You will be provided all the reports within 3 or 4 days after the medical reports come. Even some of the government hospitals give the reports the next day, so there is no need to get worried.

For admission into M.Tech ECE at IIT Bhubaneswar, students are shortlisted on the basis of their GATE score. This institute conducts a written test and an interview to select the shortlisted student for admission. Before the interview, the selected candidates need to appear in a written test, and only those who pass the test are considered eligible for the interview. There is no negative marking in the test and the subjects covered for ECE are Communications, Signals, EMT, Digital, Analog, EDC, and Maths.

The pattern of the written test is as follows:

• 35 questions for 90 minutes.
• 1-20 questions which are 1 mark questions.
• 21-35 questions which are 2 marks questions

The result of the written test is declared within one hour of the exam. And, the selected students are required to go through an interview in order to get admission. You may have the interview on the same day or the day after the written test. The interview takes about 15-20 minutes and the interview panel will have at least 4 members. Questions asked during the interview are mostly from your B Tech project, your choice of subject. If you get selected, the institute will let you know via email after a few days.