IIT Gandhinagar ranks 30th in the engineering department by NIRF 2019. Electrical Engineering is a part of core engineering. To be eligible for admission, a student will require 75% marks in their 10+2 and a valid JEE score. It is a 4-year course with fees of 2,58,500 a year.

BTech in Electrical engineering from IIT Bhubaneswar will cost a student 2,13,568 a year. The JEE cut off rank of Electrical Engineering is 2276-7542. In 2019, the placement percentage of IIT Bhubaneswar Electrical Engineering is 86%. The highest salary package offered is 39 lakhs per annum and the average salary package is 11 lakhs per annum. The top recruiters include L&T, Tata Power, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Texas Instruments, Hindalco Industries, etc.

So, IIT Bhubaneswar will be better for Electrical Engineering because IIT Bhubaneswar has better facilities, Faculty, Location, Placement Percentage, etc.

The statistics are promising when it comes to the placements at IIT Bhubaneshwar. The average package offered has been on the rise for quite some time.

On the least package offered at IIT Bhubaneshwar, the yearly stats are as follows

• 2018 - 5.1 LPA by NCCBM
• 2019 - 5.2 LPA by L&T construction Ltd.
• 2020 - 5 LPA by TMEIC Industrial Systems India Pvt. Ltd

According to the guidelines of the IIT's, a company can come to the campus for a recruitment process only if they offer a bare minimum of 5 lakhs as a package.
In every college, there’s a TnP (training and placement) cell that works to make sure that the students get a decent package. Sometimes IIT placement cell allows companies offering below 5 LPA for placement of students with low CGPA.

Based on the GATE score, IIT Bhubaneshwar calls a limited number of students for written tests and interviews. The admission is usually offered on the basis of performance in written test and interview. Each has a different weightage i.e Written Test contains 70% weightage and Interview has 30% of weightage.

The written test will contain the questions from General Aptitude and Metallurgy.

• Metallurgy will be on par with the GATE level.

• General Aptitude will comprise of Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, and English.

You need to qualify the written test in order to appear for the interview. You need to be prepared with your project for an interview. You must also know the basics of concepts like XRD, Iron- Carbon diagram, and Metallurgy basics. They will put up a list of final selected candidates after the interviews.

Chances are not much good as the number of seats in the thermal specialization are less (only 18) and IIT Bhubaneswar conducts a rigorous interview (half an hour to 45 minutes per candidate), within that duration you need to explain the topics on the board to the interviewers. Some of the interview questions asked in the previous year were boundary layer theory, transient heat conduction, the significance of Prandtl, Nusselt, etc.

The process for admission in the course is based on marks secured in graduation. The student must have 60% marks or 6.5 CGPA in a 10-point scale in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent (with a valid GATE score). 

The final selection of regular candidates will be based on the combined scores of the candidates in GATE (70%) and the written test (30%). The Written Test and Interview shall be given equal weightage of 15% each.

Students in the unreserved category will be eligible to sit in the interview subject to scoring a minimum of 40% marks in the written test and for final selection a minimum of 50% marks in the interview.

Hence, an interview becomes a very crucial factor in securing admission. It is completely technical in nature as explained above it judges the in-depth knowledge of the applicant in the subject. NPTEL lectures can be useful in preparing for the interview so as to enhance the understanding of the in-depth concepts of the subject in detail. Since the analysis part of some concepts as mentioned above can also be asked. The project report is also required there so one can expect questions from there also.

Finally, the cut off of the course is around 600 hence you can expect to have a fair chance if you have good understanding and command over your subjects.