IISc and IITM both offer good placements opportunities for M.Tech ECE. Same core companies visit the campuses, especially for ECE branches of Micro-Electronics and Electronics Systems Engineering.
Due to the small batch size, competition is much less at IISc. Some of the major recruiters were Texas Instruments, Cisco, Analog Devices, etc. The highlights of IISc M.Tech ECE placements report an average CTC of INR 15 LPA.
Dring the 2021 placement drive of IITM, M.Tech students received an average CTC of INR 16.84 LPA.
NIT Surathkal is ranked 21st in the engineering category by NIRF ranking 2019. It is one of the oldest and pioneer technical institutes in India. The institute offers an excellent placement record of 92-95% for the undergraduates every year.
Placement Highlights:
The table given below shows a brief overview of the institute:
Placement percentage |
96% |
Highest package |
INR 18.75 LPA |
Average package |
INR 11.90 LPA |
The top recruiters are Amdocs, Teradata, Radisys India, Honeywell Technology, Idrive Software, Dell EMC, Cisco Systems, Riverbed Technology, etc.
Admission process:-
Faculties:-
NIT Surathkal has a large and diverse faculty of 385 members. All the members are cooperative and very supportive towards their students.
Facilities:-
NIT Surathkal provides good placements for undergraduates and postgraduates. The placement statistics for BTech and MTech in this institute are better than other newly built NITs.
Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology (SLIET) was deemed to be a university approved by AICTE and MHRD. It is an autonomous institute. It is located at Sangrur, Punjab. MTech in ECE is a 2 year full time course involving researching, designing, developing and testing of electrical equipment.
Electronics and Communications Engineers also consider and supervise the manufacturing of communications and broadcasting systems.
The table given below shows a brief overview of the institutes:
Categories |
SLIET |
Cut Off |
529 (GATE) |
Course Fee |
58,000 (1st year) |
Placement Percentage |
80% |
Highest CTC |
8 LPA |
Average CTC |
4 LPA |
Admission Requirements
Placements
Facilities
Students pursuing MTech in ECE can work as Electronics Engineer, Field Test Engineer, Network Planning Engineer, Electronics and Communications Consultant, Customer Support Engineer, Electronics Technician, Associate Firstline Technician, Research and Development Software Engineer, Service Engineer, Senior Sales Manager and Technical Director.
I would suggest opting for MTech from IIT Bhubaneswar in electronics and communication is a better choice than IIT Bangalore.
For undergraduates, ECE is one of the new branches in IIT Bhubaneswar. The first batch commenced in 2016 and will be graduating in 2020. But M.tech in Electronics and Communication has been present in IIT Bhubaneswar for many years. The School currently offers M.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering specializations with an intake student strength of 18. The program is of 2 years where the second year is fully dedicated for research purposes only. It focuses on providing students a state-of-the-art insight into major areas of Communication Engineering, Signal Processing, and other related latest areas of research interest. IIT Bhubaneswar signed MoU with many universities for various purposes like research and student exchange. The institute also collaborates with foreign universities such as the University of Warwick, University of Southampton, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of Western Ontario, University of New York, University of North Dakota USA, and McGill University. Which gives the students of this IIT excellent internship and research opportunity.
The past placement reports show that this institute has witnessed around 60% of M.Tech placement. Companies like Adobe, Amazon, Accenture, Affine Analytics, HCL, HPCL, IOCL, ISRO, Ittiam, Infosys, KIIT, Go-Jek, Goldman Sachs, and many others visited the campus for recruitment. The average domestic CTC offered in 2019 was INR 11.44 LPA. Whereas the highest domestic CTC went up to as much as 39 Lakhs per annum. PSU’s like ISRO, IOCL, NCCBM also participated in the placement to recruit students.
Even though IIT Bhubaneswar is a new IIT, it offers a decent M.Tech program in ECE and has a good placement record. So, whether you should join M.Tech ECE at IIT Bhubaneswar or not is up to you.
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:
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.
IIT BHU faculty for M.TEch ECE is good. The faculties are well experienced. Most of the faculty members have their Ph.D. The HOD of ECE department is Prof. Vishwambhar Nath Mishra. He has many publications to his name.
The faculties have received many awards. Dr. Somak Bhattacharyya who teaches Microwave Engineering, Metasurface, Terahertz, was selected for the IEEE UP Section Young Professional Star for the month of February 2021. Prof Satyabrata Jit was included on the editorial board of IETE Journal of Research. These are some of the many achievements of the faculty members of IIT BHU ECE department.
IIT BHU ranks 11th in the engineering category by NIRF 2019. The placement cell of IIT BHU offers various activities like pre-placement talks, expert talks, mock interviews, seminars, etc. to prepare the students for placements. Some of the recruiters of IIT BHU include Samsung, Deutsche Bank, Google, Oracle, Bajaj, HSBC Bank, J.P. Morgan, Amazon, etc.
MTech in ECE students of IIT BHU in 2019 has seen the placement of 71%. The Department of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, and the Department of Mathematical Sciences has also maintained a very high placement record. The highest salary package offered to the students of IIT BHU is 58 lakhs per annum and the average salary package offered is 8 lakhs per annum. Top recruiters include EXL, Wipro, Tata Steels, Oracle, Morgan Stanley, and Maruti. Out of 300 students 171 were placed in the core engineering sector. Goldman, XEL selected 66 students along with 15 students in the year 2019-20 placement drive. University of Tokyo, University of London, University of New South Wales, Harvard University, Yale University, etc. are the top international universities that collaborate with IIT BHU for internship programs
The best courses in IIT BHU are- Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering. They have the largest number of students ranging from 88-109. These are the most popular courses in IIT BHU. The Department of Computer Science and Technology, Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering has the highest placement record.
IIT Bhubaneswar offers a decent M.Tech Electronics and Communication program. Various PSUs, core companies, and software companies visit the campus placements to recruit students through campus placement. According to IIT Bhubaneswar placements, the average CTC received by the M.Tech students is around INR 10.34 LPA. Each year around 88% of students gets placement.
M.Tech placements in IIT Bhubaneswar for ECE is quite impressive. Although for undergraduates, ECE is one of the new branches in IIT Bhubaneswar but M.tech in electronics and communication has been present at this institute for many years. The School currently offers M.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering specializations with an intake student strength of 18. The program duration is 2 years where the second year is fully dedicated for research purposes only. The M.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering program focuses on providing students an insight into research areas such as Communication Engineering, Signal Processing, and others.
Recently, IIT Bhubaneswar signed MoU with many universities for various purposes like research and student exchange. The institute also collaborates with foreign universities such as University of Warwick, University of Southampton, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of Western Ontario, University of New York, University of North Dakota USA, and McGill University. Which gives the students excellent internship and research opportunities.
According to 2019 placement trends, almost 68% of the M.Tech batch got placed in core and other sectors. The highest number of job offers were from the core sector. A total of 89 companies visited the campus for placement drive and the average placement package offered was around 11 LPA.
Companies like Adobe, Amazon, Accenture, Affine Analytics, HCL, HPCL, Ittiam, Infosys, KIIT, Go-Jek, Goldman Sachs, and many others visited the campus for recruitment. PSU’s like ISRO, IOCL, NCCBM also participated in the placement drive to recruit students.