The institute many hostels for both boys and girls, and most of them are about 50-60 years old. The rooms in the old ones are cramped, unlike the new ones, where are quite spacious. Even then, the rooms are pretty much compact, according to the number of students in a room. When one enters the room for the first time, he will be somewhat reluctant to live here because it will be too filthy with spider webs everywhere in the room, along with some used stuff of previous occupants. Hostel administration offers a bed, table, and chair. Cupboards are already inside the room, which will be shared. In a wholly arranged room with couches, tables, and chairs, there will be no space to walk, but very spacious corridors and lawns make up for it. Vishwakarma Hostel corridors are so long that one will hesitate to go from one end to another. Each of the has basic amenities like sufficient numbers of bathrooms and water coolers.

Apart from these, hostels have common rooms, canteens, mess, TV Room, badminton court, TT tables, lawns, and high-speed internet, accessible via Wi-Fi and LAN.

All the complaints of the students are taken very seriously by the hostel administration. The authorities act promptly on any grievance or criticism of the students. There are no restrictions on the time of entry and exit from the hostel. Also, the food in the hostel messes is much better than any other IIT's mess food. The hostels of IIT BHU are quite good, and they end up being the most cherished places during the time of stay in IIT BHU.

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.

System engineering is an interdisciplinary course that can be pursued by EE/EC/IN students who have valid a GATE score. EC/IN students may face problems as major course content is related to electrical engineering like electrical drive, power drive, operation & control, so electrical engineering students find it easy as compared to EC/IN students.

The total no.of seats are 9 and a maximum of 40% seats can be filled by a particular branch (from EE, EC, IN).

Now coming to placement, it totally depends on the student, as there is no specific company for system engineering but students will get the opportunity to sit in for the companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Sap Labs, Qualcomm, Intel, Eaton, Kla Tencor, TCS, Cognizant, Bosch, General Electric, Mercedes Benz, Math works, Tata Motors, Texas Instruments, Cisco, Honeywell, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Relaxo, Kotak Mahindra Bank and many more. There are also lectureship jobs from universities & coaching institutions. One student can apply for a max of 60 companies. There is also one student one job rule according to that if a student gets a job offer in one company then he will not be eligible to sit for another company similarly if someone gets an internship in one company then they will not eligible for other companies.

In IIT BHU, the M.Tech fee is 2 lakhs/annum. Most students prepare for govt.sector jobs as they get sufficient time to do so as the schedule is not hectic.

According to 2019 placement highlights, a total of 88 students from Electronics Engineering got placement offers. The average package of the IIT BHU for the electronics department ranged between 10-58 LPA. While the highest package offered in IIT BHU was 1.04 LPA. Students of Electronics Engineering got placements from both core and non-core sectors. Some of the past recruiters are Google, Oracle, Bajaj, Microsoft, Amazon, Deloitte, UBER, etc.

If you are interested in robotics or core electronics, then you would definitely love to pursue this course. The course structure incorporates recent industry trends. The faculty members experienced and also you will get the guidance of the seniors. Moreover, you will also get the idea of self-study.

IIT BHU is a good option to pursue M.Tech in chemical engineering. The professors at IIT BHU in the chemical engineering department are well qualified and experienced. But as far as placements are concerned, M. Tech in chemical engineering from IIT BHU may not sound as many of the core as well as non- core companies are not open for placement to this branch. The major recruiters in the core sector for B.tech students in chemical engineering are Reliance and BPCL but both of them are not open for M.Tech students. Also, many big companies in the non–core sector like those of software, finance, data analysts are also not open for M.Tech students. That is why the average package for M.Tech students in chemical engineering is low. But the M. Tech degree of chemical engineering from IIT BHU can be quite valuable because it helps in off-campus placements and increases the chances of getting promotion in jobs over B.Tech students.

IIT BHU CSE is better than IIT Patna CSE due to many reasons. First of all, the coding culture at IIT BHU is unparalleled. Although the coding culture at IIT Patna is quite revered, it still does not match IIT BHU. The institute(IIT BHU) also conducts Tech fests(Codefest being a prominent fest). Codefest has been successful in creating a competitive milieu for coding by inviting students from all over the world. The seniors at IIT BHU are very helpful and provides guidance. 
An underpinning feature of IIT BHU is the Internship opportunities that it provides for students. The overall infrastructure of IIT BHU is also better than IIT Patna. While NIRF rankings(2019) rank IIT Patna at an overall rank of 22, IIT BHU is ranked at 11. The overall placement performance and scenario of IIT BHU also better when compared to IIT Patna. In 2019 a total of 66 students were placed with average packages ranging from 10 LPA to 58.21 LPA from CSE in IIT BHU. However, the 2019 placement highlights of IIT Patna revels 50 students from CSE got a placement with an average package of 13.5 LPA.
IIT BHU also has a vast number of alumni as compared to IIT Patna. Many alumni from IIT BHU CS have secured high echelons in eminent MNCs and PSUs. While some have placed themselves in reputed companies or opted for startups, others pursued further studies in reputed universities of the world. However, considering all the factors, CS at IIT BHU is definitely a better choice as compared to CS at IIT Patna. 

In 2019 the placement in IIT BHU was quite good, the overall placement rate was 71%. The training and placement cell started campus placement session for final-year students in December. The details for the same are as follows:

• Highest International Package - 1.53 Crore per annum.

• Highest Domestic Package - 1.03 Crore per annum.

• Average Package - 8.19 lakhs per annum.

Generally, 50% of students get pre-placement offers (PPO), and the other 50% placed in last semester. The placement in 2019 shows that almost 60% of students were already placed. A total of 1063 students was registered for placement drive in December 2019 and 762 students got placements. 71% of students got placed with average packages ranging between 10 LPA to 58.3 LPA. Four international positions were received by the students in 2019.

The top recruiters include Google, Intel, Oracle, Flipkart, Microsoft, Nvidia, Mathworks, HP, Samsung, Adobe, OYO, Reliance, CISCO, Amazon, VISA, Optum, Morgan Stanley, DE Shaw, MyKarma, Hindustan Unilever, Citicorp, Eaton, Policy Bazar, Yokogawa Electric, Mentor Graphics, Jaguar, Applied Material, American Express, Ab Inbev, VMock PA, Confluent, Mindtickle, Cohesity, Goldman Sachs, Uber, Nutanix, Zilingo BA, Mastercard, PhonePe BA, McKinsey, Bajaj, etc..