A few of my friends graduated from USCIT Delhi and IIIT Kota and here are some tips that they shared which can be helpful.

IIIT Kota:

• Indian Institute of Information Technology Kota (IIIT, Kota ) is located at Ranpur near Kota, Rajasthan.
• It was established recently from its temporary campus at MNIT Jaipur in.
• IIIT Kota is a joint venture of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India with Industries in Public-Private Partnership model.
• The Student-Faculty ratio is 45:1.
• Since it has been only a few years after the establishment of IIIT it will take time to garner more MoUs.

USICT:

• USICT has MoUs with Cisco, IBM, Intel.
• USICT is also the Cisco regional academy for northern India. The final year students of USICT are placed with the top IT companies like Adobe, Samsung R&D, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Impetus.
• It is the 1st choice for every IPU aspirant and is very well established.

Comparison:

At present, USICT is better than IIIT Kota. However, make the proper choice and choose the right one for you.

Whenever in doubt, always choose CSE over Metallurgy. Currently, CSE has a high demand. Back when a friend of mine was in his college, he mentioned how everyone went for MNIT blindly. 

Back then, MNIT used to carry out classes of IIIT Kota. But currently, it is of no use! Even if you have to choose any college in the future, the streams Metallurgy and CS are likely to confuse you. 

Just go for CS as Computer Science. As mentioned, it is in great demand and is better than Metallurgy. CS happens to secure your employment opportunities for the future. I also would not say that the placements are very bad if you go for MNIT, Metallurgy, the placements are fine, but not something that catches the eye, simultaneously. There is no tag of NIT here.

Among the above two institutes, IIIT Kota is a definite choice, which is without doubt surpassing PICT Pune by all means of judgment. The points below give a brief overview of both the institutes that will support the choice with a lot of valid reasons.

• IIIT Kota is an institute of national importance, whereas PICT Pune is a private engineering college in Maharashtra that most people are not aware of.
• IIIT Kota has a larger perception of the development of its students. It even offers foreign internship opportunities and has tie-ups with several industries.
• IIIT Kota has a very good coding culture and offers excellent placements in top-tier companies across the world. There is no management quota for admission in IIIT Kota.
• Coming to PICT Pune, the institute has no ranking and recognition. It is highly attendance-centric and has no hostel for boarding. Even the campus of PICT Pune is just 5 acres in area, with no facilities for activities other than studies on campus.
• PICT Pune has no valid tie-ups with companies and does not allow students to go for internships due to attendance issues. There are no modern facilities on the campus.
• The syllabus followed by PICT is very old and primitive. It even allows management quota.
• Considering the average placement records of the two institutes, CSE at IIIT Kota offers around 10 LPA CTC. For PICT Pune, the average CTC offered is around 7 LPA.

It is obvious that IIIT Kota is a clear winner among the two. But, there are fake reviews from consultants over the internet supporting these institutes, which students should avoid looking after.

BITS Hyderabad will be better for a Mechanical degree. IIIT Kota, don't even have their own campus, while BITS Hyderabad is over 10 years established.

• At BITS Hyderabad you will get a centralized BITS Pilani degree. Also for placements, all the companies that visit the Pilani campus also come to Hyderabad.
• Over the recent years, many elite core companies such as Mercedes, Honda, ExxonMobil visited the placement drive.
• According to the recent placement statistics, the highest and average CTC for BITS Hyderabad is 5 LPA and 14 LPA.

I have friends at both BITS Hyderabad and IIIT Kota and based on what I herald through them, I will suggest that you choose BITS for your Mechanical Degree.

I have got a few of my friends studying in new IIITs. Based on their experience, I am mentioning some factors which are worth noting.

IIIT Lucknow and Kota are more or less the same. However, IIIT Lucknow is not at the same level as IIIT Allahabad, and can not surpass other reputed IIITs in just few years.

Regarding worthy of money, yes they are good indeed. An institute should provide good education, good campus life, and good prospect. New IIITs like Kota and Lucknow, for now, can only provide good education and good prospect but not good campus life and facilities.

Placements:

IIITs are good institutes better than many NITs and private colleges. Some of them have very good placements too but regarding the worth of money in terms of placements maybe but in terms of facilities or campus life it is a clear no.

If you’re looking for good campus life too then, in a similar cut off you can consider Gwalior(IT) or Jabalpur (CSD) or you can look for mediocre NITs.

Among the above two institutes, CSE at IIIT Kota is a good option, considering the placement statistics of the institute. The table below gives a brief level of comparison of both the institutes, specific to the branch of CSE.

• The syllabus followed by IIIT Kota is very much advanced, being a much newer institute. Students get to learn a lot about newer technologies, some of which are not even taught in NIT Jaipur.
• Considering the details of placement in both the institutes, it is very much evident that CSE at IIIT Kota is much ahead of CSE at NIT Sikkim in terms of the average and highest package offered.

So, considering the placements and curriculum into account, IIIT Kota is a better choice for Computer Science and Engineering.

I have a few friends from both institutes and based on what I heard from them I will suggest that you choose BIT Mesra IT over IIIT Kota for the CS branch.

• The college has got good academic culture. You will be among talented peers.
• It has various research departments.
• Many big MNCs visit the campus drive for recruitment. Some of the major recruiters at the campus are Microsoft, Directi, Adobe, Salesforce, Goldman, Intuit, Oracle, Amazon, Walmart Labs, MakeMyTrip, and Samsung.

The placement statistics of BIT Mesra are as follows.

Hope this helps.