Although IIIT Lucknow is an excellent institute in terms of placement and coding culture, IIIT Guwahati is not very far from the standards of IIIT Lucknow. There are several negative reviews about IIIT Guwahati over the internet and it is being falsely treated as inferior. 

The table below gives a brief level of comparison among the two institutes.

Key Highlights:

• Guwahati has very pleasant weather throughout the year, except for the humid month of August. Lucknow has an extreme type climate and so, this pleasance is lacking there. There is no problem of severe mosquitoes in Guwahati, but spiders and lights insects are often found.
• It is true that IIIT Lucknow has excellent coding culture inside its campus, with participation in several competitions. But, there are false facts about IIIT Guwahati that it has no such culture, and these are purely misleading. 
• There are some excellent professors in IIIT Guwahati. Going into some personal preferences by students, lecturers from some professors namely Soumi ma’am (CSE), Sumit sir (CSE), Mansoor sir (ECE), Arjun sir (Maths), etc are quite interesting. 
• The attendance rule of 75-85% is not very strict to be followed in IIIT Guwahati.
• Classrooms and laboratories in the academic building are well equipped with all necessary facilities and equipment and are air-conditioned too. Mostly, students are given single occupancy rooms, with attached toilets, which may be delayed due to the construction of a new hostel. 
• Mess quality is a place of personal opinion and depends upon the type of food one likes. IIIT Guwahati serves both veg and non-veg food, in North and South-Indian cuisines. There is a little issue with the hygiene of the mess in IIIT Guwahati, which is usually the case in all hostels. 
• Placements alone can never be the means of judgment for a batch of students, considering the fact that past records don’t matter that much in the future.

Therefore, both the institutes are good, with the presence of all necessary facilities and offerings. Reviewing an institute should not be manipulative and misleading.

There are no specific criteria as such to decide whether a college has surpassed another or not. The rankings offered by different councils, don’t matter much and are somewhat considered irrelevant too. In general, people have an overall perception in mind, in which IITs are the best, followed by NITs and some well-known IIITs, and some IISc and BITS. 

Comparison: (Winning Institution - IIIT Allahabad)

• Talking about IIIT Allahabad, it is quite well established and offers decent facilities and infrastructure. 
• IIIT Lucknow is far from the standards of IIIT Lucknow, and it is difficult for the institute to reach the same level as IIIT Allahabad, even after 10-15 years.
• There is a level of saturation in the minds of students and educational advisors, where there are some limits of comparison. For example, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, and IIT Delhi can’t be compared to NIT Trichy or NIT Warangal. 
• Although NIRF rankings provide a way to categorize institutes according to their quality, there is a standard slab that decides colleges of the same level. 

For the comparison of IIIT Allahabad and IIIT Lucknow, the former has made huge progress with time, and it is almost impossible for IIIT Lucknow to reach that level in the next 10-15 years. There is not much difference in location for the institutes too, so exposure will not be an advantage. In the best-case scenario, the gap in development between IIIT Allahabad and IIIT Lucknow may get reduced.

Among the above three institutes, IIIT Gwalior is the best choice, considering the fact that it is the oldest IIIT and offers excellent placement and academic facilities. The preference order of choice among the institutes is given below.

IIIT Gwalior > IIIT Jabalpur > IIIT Lucknow

The table below gives a brief level of comparison among the three institutes.

Key Highlights:

• The cut-off for admission to IIIT Gwalior is a validation of the fact that it is the best choice. It has its infrastructure spread across a 100-acre campus, being the oldest IIIT and maintaining its standard of placement and academics.
• Jabalpur has a 260-acre campus. In terms of placement and infrastructure, it comes just after IIIT Gwalior. But in terms of research, IIIT Jabalpur is ahead of the other two.
• IIIT Lucknow has a 50-acre campus and is mostly under construction, and is just 2 batches old. It is growing with time and needs to gain fame eventually. IIIT Lucknow has good placement, even in the first pass-out batch. It would be an excellent choice in the future if the records in placement are retained.

Therefore, the above order is the choice of preference a candidate will find relevant. No candidate should be misguided just by recent placement records and statistics.

According to most of the students studying there, both the colleges have average reviews. Though if compared IIITM Gwalior is considered better than IIIT Lucknow. As IIITM Gwalior was established at the same time when IIT Hyderabad and Bangalore were established, they have passed out many batches of students, but still have average placements below 10 LPA.

If we talk about IIT Hyderabad then it has also passed out many batches, but the average packages here are of more than 20 lakhs. IIITB has passed out several Btech + Mtech batches offering 17 to 18 LPA as average salary package.

IIT lucknow unlike the others mentioned is not that good or worth it, as it is a newer establishment, placements by significant companies are less. Try for old NITs, as they will get you better and higher salary packages.

The answer is YES, it is fully functional. Earlier IIIT Lucknow was dependent on the faculty and labs of IIIT Allahabad for the academics, but now, IIIT Lucknow regulates its own academic activities, organizes its own coding workshops. The classes also used to be run in the temporary campus situated in the lecture theatre of IIIT Allahabad. But from the academic year 2019-2020 itself, IIIT Lucknow has shifted itself to the newly made independent campus and has adopted the coding culture as in IIIT Allahabad.

IIIT Lucknow will have its item placements which will differ from IIIT Allahabad without a doubt. Because IIIT Lucknow is a newly made campus, chances are that few of the companies may not visit the campus regarding campus placements. But during the 4 years after which you will pass out, IIIT Lucknow may establish itself as a lead engineering institution and attract good placement packages. It solely depends on your hard work during the course and your calibre.

Some of my friends from IIIT Lucknow have said their hostels are all about the newly built, grand and very well equipped and built.

Hostels are large, modern, full of natural light and air.They have good quality furniture, are well built, fully furnished including beds, table, chair and Almirah.

Total hygiene is ensured of each part of the hostel premises. Washrooms are cleaned at least twice everyday. Kitchen and hostel rooms are also cleaned upon permission of the hostels residing inside those rooms.

The newly built infrastructure is the latest, and beautiful. Lecture theatres and labs have state of the art facilities. Clean drinking water is available 24/7 along with Wi-Fi and electricity. A fully equipped clinic is present having at least one residential nurse along with a Visiting doctor. A Warden, security guard and other caretakers are present all time inside the hostel to ensure your security. You may approach the warden at any time if you have a problem with something

A fully functional mess with a capacity of 200 people at a time is present in the hostel. It serves meals 4 times a day. A committee is present that is responsible for maintaining the quality, taste, variety and hygiene of the served food.Wi-Fi and LAN connections are present at every corner of the hostel.

An indoor common area for gatherings, carrom, chess, board games and outside, 2 badminton courts are present.You may avail the laundry service or you can opt to wash your clothes by automatic washing machines present in the hostel itself.The furniture and lifts are physically handicapped friendly. Newspapers are provided daily. There is a Tata sky subscription to all channels. The hostels do not discriminate among students.

Go for the one which is nearer. Although, IIIT Lucknow is a fair enough option to consider for chemical engineering. All the above-mentioned colleges are national-level recognized colleges.

• The reason why IIIT Lucknow is slightly preferred over the others is because of its campus which is ever-growing and developing. 
• The recruiters are always eyeing the campus and offering packages as high as 10 LPA, which makes it quite a welcome option for all the applicants and aspiring candidates.
• Moreover, the campus will help you to focus on extra-curricular and other curricular activities too apart from academics, thus paying a lot of attention to the overall growth of the personality holistically and not just scoring good grades. 
• The multiple competitions and championships happening are always intended to prepare the students holistically.

You can go for HBTI Kanpur only when you have no other options of IITs or NITs. It is a state-level college and not as reputable as the others.