This question varies on a lot of factors as students generally have the tendency to opt for the branches and the institute based on opening and closing ranks of the previous years. 

Based on the interactions with parents of the potential students, CSE can be a very valuable option. This can be a very big deal maker or breaker in case of making decisions. Keeping all these in mind, the following table shows the 2020 cut off for CSE at IIT Gandhinagar:

A common misconception can often be seen in the minds of both the students as well as their parents are as follows:

As the CSE is newly started at IIT Gandhinagar, you might think that it will not be as good as the other IITs. The CS department has been offering Ph.D. for a long time and the quality of their faculty is superior.

There are also up-to-date resources and infrastructure which is the reason for starting B.Tech CSE. There is no room for compromise from the institute when it comes to providing quality education to its students. In addition to the Dual Degree Program, they are offering minors in computer science as well.

Both colleges are quite good. My sister is currently pursuing her CSE from BIT Patna so here are some crucial insights you must have a look at.

• CSE at BIT Patna is quite impressive keeping in mind that the placement scenario in this college is better than most colleges of the same tier. Almost every student of BIT Patna gets a fair chance to seat in the placement of the Main campus, i.e. BIT Mesra Ranchi and many of them get placed too.
• The job profiles and packages are quite lucrative with an average package of around 6 lakh for CSE in BIT Patna.
• However, BIT Patna stands a little expensive as compared to LNCT Bhopal. It will cost around 12 lakhs to complete a 4-year degree. 

BIT Patna definitely stands as a better choice if placements are your goal and there are no financial constraints. Choose wisely as you would be dedicating your precious 4 years of your life that will decide your career.

CSE is considered a better option than ECE in today’s current scenario and has much better scope and field of work. The scope for CSE broadens with each passing day and with every new invention in the fields of technology and the IT sector. Although ECE is one of the core branches of IET Lucknow still CSE has more demand compared to it.

Following are some drawbacks of the ECE branch at IET Lucknow over CSE:

• You need a higher percentage of attendance to become eligible for exams. Less attendance leads to deduction of marks.
• The syllabus is huge for every semester
• The professors are very strict with the evaluation process and do not give marks easily
• There are a lot of lab practicals and assignments to complete in a very short period of time.

CSE has a better environment than ECE with no strict attendance regulation. The professors in the CSE department are friendly. The placement of the CSE branch is far better than any other branch in IET Lucknow. 

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.

There is no specific closing cutoff for the mock-round allocation. Though based on the previous year's data, the closing rank is supposed to be in the range of 1500-2000. It can increase but it is less likely to drop below 2000.

The mock seat allocation is done on the basis of options filled in by the particular candidates within the time limit. It is however meant to provide each student an overview about the status of the option filled in by them for their personally opted IIT course, as per record.

It is worth keeping another notice that the choice filled by an individual can only be modified as per data until the set time limit.

Without any doubt, we all get into the dilemma when we listen to the word shift course especially for the courses like B.Tech. But the shift course has been introduced in some colleges to increase their intake capacity of students for the popular courses to give opportunities to many students. 

• Usually, the normal time of the class in the college is from 9 am but for the shift course the classes commence at 11 am onwards and end up by 5 pm. 
• There is not much difference in the timings. 
• Also, the students of the shift course are provided with equal opportunities, similar placements are given to them without making any difference between CSE and CSSC students.

Therefore, we can conclude that the shift course is just to expand the capacity of the students keeping in mind the university norms, rest all the things are similar to the normal CSE course. So there is nothing much to worry about.