The most annoying part of college life at MNNIT is its 'anti-innovation environment in mechanical engineering. In the four years of the program, you will notice that average teachers or fun fests wouldn't matter as much as the exploration of your creative potential.

If you try to create new things, the college itself will create obstacles, such as these:

• Lack of manufacturing facilities: As a mechanical engineering student, you might build a machine or a humanoid robot. But, MNNIT has a 3D printer worth 35 lakhs which doesn't work. Even the CNC machines don't work because they are quite old. The lab harbors a 'robotic arm' which moves at times and is the only showpiece in the lab-cum-museum.
• Lack of academic freedom: You're not allowed to choose your subject! So you might get stuck with learning 'steam-powered engineering' even when you do not have any intention of working in that field.
• Dull and boring: Because of the 75% attendance rule, you will be stuck in a non-AC classroom or a lab with broken equipment. If you are a female student, you'll have to abide by stringent hostel timing rules.

Being an engineering student, you must worry about the washrooms, or mess rather you should be concerned about the lab timings, technical facilities available there, and whether it all works efficiently. If you're a CS student, then you'll be fine. Other branches too may find things to their liking but not mechanical.

MCA is offered by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the college. You will be given admission to the program on the basis of your result from NIMCET which is to be given for MCA. This is a common entrance test.

There are about 93 seats for this program if you are a graduate of an Indian University. Moreover, seats are also reserved for students from SC, ST, OBC, and physically disabled. These reservations are made as per MHRD, Government of India, and their guidelines.

You might want to know the eligibility requirement for admission to MNIT as well:

• You are expected to have a bachelor’s degree in science or any other equivalent degree which includes math or computer science as one of its subjects in the degree.
• Additionally, you will also be required to secure a score of at least 60% aggregate marks in graduation if you wish to be eligible for admission to the college.

As of 2021, the total fees for MCA are INR 1.13 lakhs for the first year. To get the detailed fee structure visit the official website.

This highly depends on which field you are from. MNNIT Allahabad is quite popular in the programming community. When it comes to the common man, since they are not much into the programming culture, it is quite possible that they might not be aware of the college.

Even when it comes to media like newspapers and television, usually it’s the IITs that are highly spoken about and there is nothing much about MNIT and every other NIT perhaps. If you are worried about your placements with regards to this, don’t stress. Companies do know about the potential of the college and hence provide very good packages to students.

In fact, the college should be more popular among companies than the common people. You do not need to worry about this.

If you are planning to apply to MNIT, the course fee depends on the course you wish to take as the fee differs from course to course. The table below should provide you with some information on this.

In a few courses like B. Tech, you might have to pay the fee semester-wise than for the complete year. This fee structure also includes a hostel fee, but you might have to pay separately for the mess which costs more or less about INR 13,000 per semester. You might get refunded with INR 2000 or 3000 from this at the end of the year.

The placements as well as the coding culture among Information Technology (IT) students are no less than that of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) students. In fact, both branches are almost similar.

Placements: Almost all companies that visit the campus to recruit CSE students also make the IT branch eligible to apply, barring only a very few. The table below shows the placement statistics for the two branches for the academic year 2020.

Coding Culture: Many students from the IT branch do coding. The number even increases near placements. If we compare the number of coders in CSE and IT, it will be almost the same. Students have also started contributing to the open-source platforms. So, all in all, the coding culture is also good and improving each day.

Finally, the IT branch at MNNIT Allahabad is a very good choice for academics as well as your future career growth and should be definitely considered.

If you strictly want a 7-figure salary during the campus placements, then Civil Engineering is not for you, neither here at MNNIT Allahabad, nor at any other institute. Even IIT Bombay placement offers will not look lucrative compared to their other branches. 

The actual reasons for which you should consider Civil Engineering at MNNIT Allahabad are as follows.

• Higher Studies: The GATE 2017 top 4 rank holders were from MNNIT Allahabad as was the 2nd rank holder in GATE 2016 in the Civil Engineering paper. 
• Faculty: The faculty is much better than their non-core counterparts and is highly motivated to make their students flourish in the entrance exams. The results speak for themselves.
• Opportunities other than private companies – Government departments such as Public Works Department (PWD), Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH), National Highway Authority of India (NHAI), and various others who select candidates through Engineering Services Examination (ESE). Maharatna and Navratna PSUs take candidates who qualify GATE exam.

• Private Sector: Private Companies such as Gammon, L&T not only visit campus but also conduct off-campus drives and recruit students. Although the initial salary will be lower than top private IT companies.

So, if you are genuinely interested in civil engineering then there would not be any dearth of opportunities after completing the degree.