IIT Mandi has been ranked 31st by NIRF for B.Tech Mechanical engineering amongst the top engineering colleges in the country. While IIT Tirupati and IIT Dharwad were recently established and haven't been ranked yet by NIRF. On the other hand IIT Dhanbad, previously known as ISM is ranked 12th according to NIRF for engineering physics.

The following table provides information on the fee structure and seat intake at all four institutes for different courses:

Placements:

IIT Tirupati (B.Tech Mechanical):

• Average package of INR 7.7 lakhs per annum.
• Average placement rate of 85%
• Top recruiters at the institute include L&T, Barclays, Intel, Ashok Leyland, etc.

IIT Dharwad (B. Tech CSE):

• The highest package offered to CSE students was INR 15 lakhs per annum
• Average package offered was INR 8 lakhs per annum.
• Of the total students who applied for placements, 90% were placed in 2020.
• Top recruiters include Adobe, Amazon and Microsoft amongst 30 others

IIT Mandi (B. Tech Mechanical):

• Average placement rate of 85%
• The highest package offered is INR 16 lakhs per annum
• Average salary ranges between 6 to 7 lakhs per annum.
• L&T, ISRO, HPCL,JSW Steel are some of the top recruiters of the department.

ISM Dhanbad (Engineering Physics):

• Average placement rate has been around 75%
• The highest package offered was INR 14.3 lakhs per annum.
• Average CTC offered was 5-6 LPA
• Reliance, KCCL, ONGC,PwC Synopsys are some of the popular recruiters at the institute.

ISM Dhanbad is one of the largest and oldest institutions of the country and renowned for its excellence in curating innovative minds. All IITs also possess a grand brand value. It's difficult to distinguish between courses and colleges as there are many factors like curriculum, faculty, and other minute facilities which govern the decision. It is on the individual’s interest and diligence that matters the most.

Your first decision must be the subject and choose the institute based on your subject of interest. As all of the above-mentioned choices have their own significance.

Economics at IIT Kharagpur

Total fees of the B.Sc. + M.Sc. Economics is INR 3.94 lacs. The faculty-student ratio here is 1:19. A B.Sc. + M.Sc. Economics graduation degree from IIT Kharagpur is of great value.

IIT Kharagpur has a reputation for its placements. In 2019-20, few students secured offers for more than INR 1 crore per annum. At the beginning of phase 1 of 2019-20 placements which started on December 1, around 1300 students had received job offers. The average package offered was INR 15 lacs per annum. Around 200 companies including Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, and Honeywell visited the college.

Electrical at IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Mandi

A B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) degree will cost INR 7.91 lakhs at IIT Bhubaneswar, whereas, INR 8.3 lakhs at IIT Mandi.

The faculty-student ratio at IIT Mandi is 1:8, whereas at IIT Bhubaneswar there is a shortage of faculty.

The average package offered to a student of IIT Mandi was INR 13.5 LPA. The placement rate is around 82%. The average package at IIT Bhubaneswar was INR 11.4 lakhs per annum. The placement rate here was 86%.

89 companies including Amazon and HP visited IIT Bhubaneswar in 2019. A total of 112 offers were made at IIT Mandi in 2019 including offers by Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, and Robert Bosch.

Civil at IIT Guwahati and IIT BHU

Civil Engineering at IIT Guwahati costs INR 8.59 lakhs, and at IIT BHU it costs INR 8.67 lakhs.

In 2018-19, a total of 250 companies visited IIT Guwahati. The placement rate for civil engineering was 77%. The highest package offered was INR 1.5 crores. International companies like Microsoft and Uber were the major recruiters.
A total of 52 companies visited IIT BHU last year. The placement rate was 71%. The highest package offered was INR 1.53 crores. The major recruiters included EXL, Wipro, Tata Steels, Oracle, and Maruti.

You may talk to the seniors before choosing the college. The decision must be made based on your subject preference and keeping all these facts into consideration.

MNNIT Allahabad offers 4 years B.Tech and 2 years M.Tech in CSE with specializations in postgraduate programs in the fields of Computer Science & Engineering, Software Engineering, and Information Security. MNNIT Allahabad is ranked 93rd overall and 48th among other engineering institutes by MHRD’s 2020 NIRF rankings.

IIT Mandi offers 4 years B.Tech and 2 years M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering (ME). Specialization in Energy Systems (MES) is offered for post graduation in ME. Currently, the intake of ME branch for M.Tech is 40 with a total strength of 126 students. IIT Mandi is ranked 67th overall and 31st among other engineering institutes by MHRD’s 2020 NIRF rankings.

Coming to the question, if the tag of an IITian is not of prime concern then relevant facts and statistics as mentioned below should be taken into consideration as CSE and Mechanics are completely different courses.

Placement:

Even institutes like IITs have lesser core companies visiting for the ME branch as compared to the CSE branch of NITs or other institutes.

• MNNIT Allahabad:
  • Core companies visiting for CSE are Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Amazon, Flipkart, Oracle, Cisco, Citrix, Samsung, SAP labs, Walmart, Directi, Qualcomm, Adobe, etc.
  • The placement percentage for the year 2019 was 97.60% of the CSE branch.
  • The average salary package offered was 15.12 lakhs and the highest package offered was 36 lakhs.
• IIT Mandi:
  • Core companies recruiting for the ME branch are HPCL, ISRO, L&T, LNTECC, Capgemini, Siemens, Mahindra & Mahindra, etc.
  • The percentage of students placed is 61.11%.
  • The highest salary offered in 2019 was 16.7 LPA by HPCL and the average salary offered is 7 LPA.

Both the institutes mentioned above are nationally-ranked. The choice of opting for either CSE at MNNIT Allahabad or ME at IIT Mandi is that of the student wanting to pursue it as they are entirely different courses.

For Mechanical Engineering, these five IITs should be ranked in the order given below.

1. IIT Bhubaneswar

2. IIT Indore

3. IIT Jodhpur

4. IIT Ropar

5. IIT Mandi

In IIT Bhubaneswar the average package for the mechanical branch offered was 8.8 lakhs p.a. last year and a total of 91% of students got placed from this branch. According to MHRD rankings, IIT-B has made the most significant improvement among all IITs by jumping to 17th rank. NALCO, TATA STEEL, VEDANTA, TECH MAHINDRA are the major recruiters at this college.

After IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT-Indore’s mechanical department is undertaking the best ongoing research. It also boasts of the most modern Central Workshop in India. HPCL, Tata Motors, L & T, ISRO, Mahindra, being some of the major recruiters in the college. In last year’s placement drive the average package offered was 8 lakhs p.a. for mechanical last year while the highest was 16 lakhs p.a. 

With 64% placement last year, IIT Ropar is one of the best places for mechanical studies in India. NIRF ranks IIT-R 29nt under Top Engineering Institutes in India. Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, L&T, Amazon, Facebook, Oyo, Flipkart, Futures First, etc. are the top recruiting companies here.

IIT Jodhpur recorded 83% placement last year for mechanical students while the average package was around 8 lakhs p.a. BPCL, TCS, NBC Bearings, Tata Motors, are the companies conducting placement drives here. IIP program in IIT-J allows students to go for internships from the first year which is a plus point in comparison to other IITs.

With 61% placement for the mechanical branch in the last year, IIT-Mandi comes last among the other colleges aforementioned. The average salary package for mechanical students ranged from 6 to 7 lakhs per annum. In comparison to other institutes, IIT-Mandi falls short in figures and therefore is ranked last here.

The major factor that drives the decision of which course to pursue is the placements.

Chemical Engineering- IIT Roorkee

As per the 2018-19 placements record, more than 250 companies participated in campus placements, some of them were ITC, Reliance, Jindal Steel, TATA, and many more. Chemical Engineering Students at IIT Roorkee recorded an average placement of INR 13.05 lakhs per annum. A total of 8 PPOs were offered to Chemical Engineering students. Roles were offered for Technologist, Researcher, Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Consultant, etc. The placement rate for Chemical Engineering was around 80%.

ECE at IIT Bhubaneswar

ECE is one of the new branches of IIT Bhubaneswar and was introduced in 2016. Due to this, the first batch to pass out would be the batch of 2020. So there are no past records for this course. However, seeing the trend of placements for electrical engineering, the same can be assumed for ECE as well. In the year 2018-2019, 86% of the Electrical Engineering Department was placed. Companies like Amazon, INTEL Technology, ISRO, DELL, Thermax, Tata Steel, and many more visited to recruit students during campus placements. The average placement was recorded at INR Rs. 11.44 lakhs per annum.

EEE at IIT Mandi

As per 2019-20 placements, 62.5% of EEE were placed during phase-1 of campus placements. A total of 75 companies visited the campus and some of the top recruiters were Accenture, Wipro, CISCO, ISRO, CSC India, Siemens to name a few. The average package offered was 13.5 lakhs per annum. Several PPOs were also offered.

Considering the placements data, you should choose Chemical Engineering at IIT Roorkee. However, the final decision of which course and college to select rests up to you.

The college options which you are looking for are all pretty good. However, when you look for Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering in these colleges you must compare the colleges on the following basis which will help you choose the best out of the options:

Infrastructure- All the above colleges provide its students with good infrastructural facilities like Library, Wi-Fi Campus, Hostel (Boys, Girls), Convenience Store, Cafeteria, Auditorium, Hospital / Medical Facilities, Sports Complex, Gym, and labs. 

Fees Structure- The tuition fees at the Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Jo2dhpur, and Mandi for B.Tech is respectively 2.23 lakh/year, 1.98 lakh/year, 2.14 lakh/year, 1.41 lakh/year and 2.08 lakh/year.

Rankings- In the rankings given by NIRF in 2020, IIT Dhanbad tops the position at 12th rank followed by IIT Bhubaneswar having 22nd rank, IIT Patna at 26th, IIT Mandi at 31st rank, and IIT Jodhpur having 53rd rank.

Placements- In the academic year 2018-19, the ME and EE branches at IIT Bhubaneswar had 83% and 86% placement rate respectively and the average salary package offered was around 11.4 LPA. IIT Patna offered an average of 11.49 LPA and 8.05 LPA to Mechanical and Electrical Engineering students respectively in 2019 placements. Also, Placement wise IIT Mandi has only 60% placement when it comes to Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering branch with an average placement of Rs. 13.5 LPA. In IIT Dhanbad there was 75.70% and 72.73% placement from EE and ME branches with 15.5 LPA and 14.4 LPA respectively. The 2019 placement statistics of Jodhpur revels there was 84% and 83% placement from EE and ME branches with an average CTC 16.73 LPA.

Location- IIT Patna has location-wise benefit as Patna is one of the fastest-growing cities of India and you’ll have immense exposure opportunities there. 

Faculty- All the IITs will offer you good and well-qualified faculty members, it is up to the students how much efforts they put in to take away the most from them.

So looking at the above factors, it is observed that IIT Patna has an edge over the other IITs for Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering course. 

IIT Mandi completed the placement drive for 2019 with 82% of students successfully placed in the top companies. The institute also witnessed a 50% increase in the average salary offered to the students. A total of 45 companies took part in the 2019 placement drive with the CSE department getting 90% placement. The top recruiters were Wipro, Microsoft, Cortex, Amazon with an average salary of 13.5 LPA. Overall the placement in IIT Mandi is good for the CSE department and the number is slowly increasing every year.

IIT Bhubaneswar witnessed a huge increase in their placement trends. In 2019, around 89 companies visited the campus and 90% of the students got the placements. The CSE department got the 100% placement with an average salary of 10-35 LPA. The top recruiters that participated were Google, Accenture, Amazon, Adobe, Dell, Capgemini, etc. In IIT Bhubaneswar, the CSE department placement from the previous years is good and the placement rate is slowly increasing at a gradual rate.

IIT Jodhpur also released their placement report for 2019. Around 75% of the students got the placement with the CSE department getting the highest placement of 100%. The top companies participated in the campus placements were Microsoft, Google, IBM, Morgan Stanley, etc. The average salary offered to the students was 16 lakhs.

Despite being new IITs, these three IITs are good in terms of placements and academics for CSE. Before choosing among these IITs, you should take advice from the seniors at these institutes, explore different aspects and then choose accordingly.

IIT Bhubaneswar ranks 17th in the Engineering category by NIRF 2019. Civil Engineering Department is one of the core engineering departments at IIT Bhubaneswar, having a tuition fee of 2,13,568 per annum. A JEE ranking of 6000 to 13000 is required for entering in a civil engineering course in IIT Bhubaneswar. In 2019, Civil Engineering saw 89% placement with an average annual salary package of 11 lakhs per annum. It has a total of 145 faculty members who are highly qualified and Ph.D. holders. There are two hostels, a gym, a shopping complex, Healthcare centre, common rooms, media entertainment rooms, etc.

IIT Mandi ranks 20th in the Engineering category by NIRF 2019. The Civil Engineering course requires an average of 75% in aggregate in Class XII board examination. The highest placement offers in IIT Mandi are for the Computer Engineering Department followed by the Civil Engineering Department. In 2019, a total of 83% of students were placed from the Civil Engineering Department. The Average annual salary package offered to engineering graduates is 13 lakhs per annum. IIT Mandi has hostel facilities, library, canteen, bakery, sports grounds, etc.

NIT Warangal ranks 26th in the Engineering category by NIRF 2019. It is a much older establishment than IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Mandi. In 2019, NIT Warangal saw placement of 644 students from the undergraduate programs with a total of 81% placement. Out of 98 eligible candidates, 80 were successfully placed with an average annual salary package of 6 lakhs per annum. Facilities like Computer centers, Libraries, Healthcare centers, banks, and ATMs, etc. are in and around the campus.

Thus, it probably depends on the JEE ranking, your location, preference of the campus, etc. Ultimately it depends on you which college will be preferable for your study.