You must follow your passion and go for the stream over college. After all, your choice will either make or break your future depending on how you tackle the circumstances.

Choose IIIT Guwahati if you want CSE. If you choose metallurgy go for NIT Warangal. If you don’t know, like IIIT Kota has MNIT Jaipur, IIIT Guwahati has IIT Guwahati as its mentor institute.

The infrastructure, faculty, and placement opportunities are far better there due to the presence of already established IIIT G. This makes a lot of difference and gives an extra helping hand to IIIT-Guwahati. Being a new institute, IIIT G will not limit your options and you will also have an ample amount of opportunities coming in your way. IIITG already has great affiliations with top industry groups and even has an IT park coming up next to it.

Let’s have a brief perspective and a quick overview of all:

• Take a quick check on the subjects you would be studying for the next 4 years and ask yourself does it really excites you to go further with the field.
• If you are stuck in between metallurgy or computer science; ask yourself what you really want and how it will help you in further life.
• Does it actually inspire you to work on projects related to your field of study?
• Trust me, at the end of the day you would not like to end up taking the wrong stream.

Also, I believe that all the top colleges in the country have almost the same level of standards of teaching, placements, opportunities for further education. In short, it opens lots of doors for you in the future.

The reason which sets these colleges apart from others is how much they allow their students to get enough exposure to culture for the next 4 years and also to work under and with the guidance of the brightest minds in the country. You learn a lot more from your friends in college than your professors, irrespective of IITs or NITs.

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.

IIIT Kota is one of the recent IIITs established in the past few years. In this limited period, it has made good improvement. In the first placement season itself, it has witnessed the highest package of 28 lakhs and almost more than 50 percent of students were placed.

A brief placement highlight for the institute is given below.

MNIT is the mentor institute for IIIT Kota. It also has a joint placement program with MNIT Jaipur. You can search for the achievements of IIIT Kota on its official website.

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.

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.

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.