It simply cannot be stressed enough that you should, without a speck of doubt go for IIIT Vadodara. The reason I recommend this institute with so much confidence is that my friends are alumni of this same institution. Therefore, it is suggested that IIIT Vadodara will prove to be better for you than IIIT Kota for pursuing CS. 

If you make a comparison between IIIT Vadodara and IIIT Kota, I would consider every aspect that essentially includes vital factors like the faculty, study/work-environment, etc., and having experienced the best of all of that's mentioned. 

All in all, it is recommended that you definitely go for IIIT Vadodara. The faculty here is pretty good and DAIICT is the mentor institute. You simply cannot say NO to a place that comes with such a fine faculty. Other than that, the choice is yours as only you will know what's best for you.

I know a few things about LNMIIT since I have few friends there. It is a public-private non-profitable college, located in Rajasthan. From what I heard from my friends, I will not recommend choosing this institute. 

• The main problem of this institute is the administration. There have been many misconducts by the management, in recent years.
• Scoring marks in college is very hard as the teachers usually give D and F grades to their students which makes their GPA < 6 and hence making it difficult for them to sit in the placements.
• There is nothing like supplementary exams which is common practice in IITs and NITs.

If you want to build upon your career, don’t choose LNMIIT. Mostly, half of the batch fails in the exams.

Finally, life is tough at LNMIIT, so don’t go for it. Look for other options.

Firstly it is a PPP (Public-Private Partnership) type of institution, so it is quite expensive and has a high fee structure. The fee structure depends on the academic year, but the hostel fees are around 30,000 per semester and increases accordingly. 

The BTech fee structure for the academic year 2020-21 is as follows. 

There is a 20% fee reduction in tuition fees for SC/ST students.

I hope it is helpful and you can also check the fee structure for your course on the official website.

IIIT Vadodara has been established with an aim to develop new knowledge technology and provide manpower to the global standards for the IT industry. Practically the institute lacks facilities that are required to meet this objective.

Problems with IIIT Vadodara:

• The institute is far from the minimum standards that an institute of national importance should have.
• DAICT is decent institute but has not mentored IIIT Vadodara properly.
• The institute is struggling with research, placements, and research.
• The institute’s faculty is young and struggling to match the standard quality of teaching. More new faculties with rich experience are required.
• The students are directed to do only theoretical learning and are not exposed to innovative and cutting-edge research driven teaching.

IIIT Kota:

• The institute has excellent hostel facilities with internet, mess, and canteen.
• Library is well-equipped with all books and digital library.
• The institute has decent sports facility, medical and IT facility.
• The institute is government-run, so there are various opportunities for scholarship.
• The placements are also decent. The highest package offered was 30 LPA while the lowest package was 3.5 LPA. The top recruiters were TCS, Amazon, and MAQ Software.

Winning Institute:

As per the problems faced by IIIT Vadodara, it is clear that IIIT Kota has an edge over it. IIIT Kota has the clear winning points.

IIITM-Gwalior is the best choice to opt and if you are getting it, grab the opportunity. It is the oldest IIT of India with its own campus spread over 160+ acres and is totally funded by MHRD. The institute has a decent placement with the average package for M.Tech was around 10.5 LPA. In MBA, the highest was 15 LPA.

If you're not getting IIIT Gwalior, then the order should be as follows: IIIT Lucknow > IIIT Vadodara > IIIT Kota.

IIIT Lucknow was recently established and is making good progress and the placement records are good. If one has to choose between IIIT- Kota or IIIT- Vadodara or IIIT- Lucknow, choose IIIT-Lucknow any day!

IIIT Vadodara doesn’t own a permanent campus but it is known for its coding culture and the placement statistics are far better. Also, final-year students do get an opportunity for an internship to work in Amazon.

IIIT Kota is in the beautiful campus of MNIT, Jaipur spread in an area of 329 acres.

Want to have a fulfilling college life in the sense you want to enjoy being part of a college fest.

The factors which used for ordering the above institutes are:

• Year of the establishment.
• Placements records
• Whether to have permanent campuses or not
• Funding mode
• Connectivity with the neighboring cities

Hence, before opting for any college just ask yourself, in which field or stream you want to get into so that you don’t regret it later. As 4 years duration is not too little to give and graduating from a reputed college with good placement and tag plays a vital role in your upcoming future.

Both IIIT Kota and NIT Delhi are government colleges and come with a fancy tag of IIIT and NIT. But LNMIIT is better than the above two. Here are the reasons why.

• Academics and Cultural Fests at LNMIIT are much better than those of IIIT Kota and NIT Delhi.
• LNMIIT is well established as it was established much before IIIT Kota and NIT Delhi. Due to the above point, it has a vast alumni network.
• The academic and Coding environment at LNMIIT is much better than IIIT Kota and NIT Delhi and hence it provides ample opportunities for its students to grow.
• Not just is Coding, LNMIIT provides many opportunities in other fields too.
• There are many societies and clubs like tech clubs, sports clubs, etc which provides everyone with a fair chance to grow and get involved in things he likes.

Finally, if you are a learning enthusiast and are keen to explore new things, you won't regret joining this college. My friend was torn between choices a few years back, and after much consideration he chooses LNMIIT. Based on his experience, I can say it was the right decision. 

I personally believe that the upcoming future will be a more tech-savvy and digital world. So, going for CSE/IT is an evergreen choice. And is better than metallurgy engineering.

• In my point of view, you should start from the bottom line i.e., start from NITs rather than IIITs.

• Even some NITs in the north-east, like NIT Meghalaya, NIT Silchar, and NIT Agartala are good enough for fields such as CSE/IT.

• If not, then go for the IIIT colleges which are fully government-funded.

If there is no particular interest and just want a decent job in the future then choose CSE at IIIT Vadodara.

However, on the other hand, IIIT Kota is facing too many issues from faculties.

• There are hardly one or two teachers with a research background. As an outcome of this what you will study will not have minute concepts it would be just theoretical knowledge from the books.
• Though being good in coding but that just doesn't justify being in engineering college.
• The college Atmosphere here is not good.

Hence if you are getting IIIT Kota CSE then you might also be getting some other good NITs and IIITs prefer them, else you will regret it if you are willing to achieve something bigger in life.