IIT Patna takes admission for M.Tech in Civil Engineering through the GATE exam. Candidates should have aggregate marks of 60% and above in their Bachelors’s. The GATE cut-off was about 450 for Civil Engineering in 2019. The total number of seats available in the institute are only 18-19. 

The placement drive gives good opportunities to the students and the highest package in 2019 was INR.38 Lakh/year offered by Microsoft , followed by INR.35 lakh/year by DE Shaw, also reputed companies like Samsung, Uber, LinkedIn, Force Motors, L&T, Capgemini, TCS, Wipro, Amazon are the top recruiters.  

IIT Bhubaneswar also needs candidates to clear the GATE exam with a good score along with aggregate marks of 60% and above in Bachelors. The total intake is about 18-20 only. The course fee is about INR 2.31 Lakh approx per annum. In 2019 the highest placement offer was around INR 39 Lakh per year and the average job package offered was INR 11.44 Lakh. PSUs like ISRO, IOCL, NCCBM recruited students from IIT Bhubaneswar. There was about 68% of total placement for M.Tech 2019 batch. 

Both the IIT’s are top reputed institutions known for academics and good placements.
 

MTech in Transportation might not be a popular subject but it can land you in some jobs of Civil Engineering and Automobile Engineering. An MTech degree will help you to gain further knowledge about the subject if you, later on, want to pursue a career in Teaching or Research. In the 2019 placement drive, more than 89 companies have visited IIT Bhubaneswar for placements. The average salary package offered to an MTech graduate was 11 lakhs per annum.

Construction Technology and Management is a closely related field to Civil Engineering. After completing MTech you can further get into research and development about the subject. Also, students from NIT Surathkal have received an average salary package of 7 lakhs per annum by recruiting companies like Alliance International, G. Gheewala, ABC consultants, Shella Consultants, Delta recruitment, R.K. International, MM Enterprises, International Manpower resources, Randstad India, Dynamic Group, Hector & Streak Consulting Pvt. Ltd., etc. for Real Estate, Infrastructure, Projects, and oil and gas sectors.

Both subjects are closely related to the Civil Engineering department, you can choose by your college preference, subject preference, ranks, etc. IIT Bhubaneswar would be a better choice due to its better placements and popularity among the professionals.

Both the colleges are equally good but you should go for NIT Surathkal because it is a well-established institute and has a greater alumni background. It is one of the top NITs which are better than a new IIT. IIT Bhubaneswar is a new IIT therefore it lacks proper infrastructure, alumni, and faculty. 

On the other hand, NIT Surathkal is old and has proper faculty and alumni which is a plus point. The average package at NIT Surathkal was 11.90 LPA for M.Tech and 11.44 LPA at IIT Bhubaneswar. In 2019,  there was a 69% placement for M.Tech students in IIT Bhubaneswar. M.Tech is considered a dead course in India because it lacks job options. But it is up to you, what you do with your post-grad degree. Both colleges will provide you a great number of opportunities. 

College life of both the colleges is great but there is one thing that NIT Surathkal has that no other college in India has and that is it has an own beach. Environment wise both colleges are good. NIT Surathkal hosts the second biggest fest in south India called Incident. 

Although the IIT tag offers certain advantages, you should choose NIT Surathkal because of its experienced faculty and better opportunities it can provide.
 

The written test for MTech in Civil Engineering at IIT Bhubaneswar mainly includes questions related to the subject and it follows the syllabus for GATE. There is no negative marking in the test and the question format follows the pattern given below.

• 35 questions (Time-90 minutes)
• 1-20 (1 mark questions)
• 21-35 (2 mark questions)

According to the students who have taken the test before, the test comprises of questions like-

• What is the max liquid limit, plastic limit?
• What is Preconsolidation stress? How is the Preconsolidation ratio calculated?
• What is the stress distribution below a uniform settlement foundation?

Most of the questions asked in the test are from Geotech Engineering and Environment. Others included Building Material, Fluid Mechanics, RCC, Steel Structure, Hydrology, Surveying, Transportation, Structural Analysis, SOM.

The result of the written test is declared within 1 hour of the test and if you are shortlisted you need to get through an interview in order to get admission. The interview can be scheduled on the same day or the day after.

The job profiles of Transportation Engineers include construction planning for bridges, highways, municipal utilities, drainage structures, traffic control devices roadway lights and intelligent transportation systems. Under Transportation Engineering, IIT-B covers key subjects like Urban Transportation Planning, Traffic Engineering Studies, Fundamentals of traffic flow theory, etc.

Public and Private transportation services are the major recruiters and the job profiles offered to transportation engineers are Systems Engineer, Transportation Innovation Analyst, Mechanical Quantity Survey and Bill Checking Engineer, Transportation Planner, Civil Transportation Designer,, and Infrastructure Utilities Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Senior Transportation Modeller.

In 2019, IIT-B recorded 89% placement for civil engineering students with top recruiting companies like L & T Construction, L & T Ltd., etc. The placements witnessed a high jump in 2019 as compared to 62% in 2018. The average package for civil engineering was 7.5 lakhs per annum in 2019. The number of companies conducting placement drives at IIT-B also showed a significant jump to 89 in 2019-20 compared to 55 in 2018-19.

The scope for transportation engineers in India is significant as with the developing economy, India is in need of advanced traffic networks, pavement constructions, smooth traffic flow structure and R&D consultants.

Question papers from previous years suggest the M.Tech admission test at IIT Bhubaneswar in civil engineering follows the same syllabus as GATE. In the written examination, there are mostly conceptual questions from core subjects as well as questions from mathematics and aptitude.

So, it would be wise to prepare ahead of time by solving all the previous year’s question papers and also study the basics of all the subjects side by side. But as it is IIT, there is no boundary of the questions. So, cover your basics thoroughly.

Results of the admission test are declared within 1 hour of the exam. If you are selected, you need to get through document verification and an interview to get enrolled. Mostly, interviews are purely technical and questions are asked to test the basics concepts. The interview takes around 15 mins maximum and at least 3 Interviewers will be present in the interview board.

To talk about M.Tech placement, the report of 2018 states that the institute saw around 60% placement. Companies that visited the campus for recruitment are Adobe, Amazon, Infosys, Accenture, KIIT, Affine Analytics, HCL, Go-jek, HPCL, Goldman Sachs

IOCL, ISRO, Ittiam to name a few. Highlights of placement report 2018 of IIT Bhubaneswar show that the highest number of jobs were offered in core industries.

• 39 Lakhs per annum is the Highest domestic CTC offered
• M.Tech saw close to 60% placement.
• A total of 69 students were interested out of which 40 students got placed
• 52 companies visited campus this year.
• The average salary offered was 11.15 lakhs per annum.
• The maximum job offers received were from core industries.
• ISRO, IOCL, HPCL, NCCBM are few PSU’s that participated in campus placement.
• To name few top recruiters- Goldman Sachs, Samsung, TCS, Adobe, Oracle, Renault Nissan etc.
• The internship offers tp 3rd-year students are in the core industry. A few of the interns are engaged in R&D organizations and Foreign universities.

Following is the sector-wise placement analysis for M.Tech at IIT Bhubaneshwar:

• Core- 53 %
• IT- 19 %
• Education- 10 %
• PSU- 8 %
• E-commerce – 5 %
• Analytics- 4 %
• NBFC- 1 %

The M.Tech course delivered at IIT Bhubaneswar is quite good. Besides being taught by experienced and renowned faculty, the institute offers many opportunities through placements to students who pursue their M.Tech. Around 65 percent of M.Tech students who got enrolled in the institute got placed in renowned companies like HCL, Infosys, Goldman Sachs, Accenture, including others in this year’s placement drive before the countrywide lockdown. Some have even managed to secure themselves in top PSUs like IOCL, HPCL, etc. Among 69 students in M.Tech who were interested in placements, 40 students got placed.

Besides the impressive placement scenario, you will get the opportunity to pursue your project under the guidance of venerated faculty. After the completion of the M.Tech course, most of the students opt for Ph.D. in renowned foreign institutes. Others, who prefer jobs, get recruited in reputed companies. Some have even been successful in setting up successful startups. So considering all aspects, M.Tech from IIT Bhubaneswar offers new avenues through placements as well as future studies.

IIT Bhubaneswar offers a decent M.Tech in the CE program. The Civil Engineering department has experienced professors from the field background. Recently, it has signed MoU with many universities for 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. This will give the students an excellent internship and research opportunities.

Past placement reports reveal that IIT Bhubaneswar 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. A popular belief is that most of the IIT fail to offer core placement for civil engineering students in India. This is not the case for IIT Bhubaneswar as it offers plenty of core placement opportunities. 

IIT Bhubaneswar is a good institution to pursue M.Tech in CE from both in academics and placements.