There are quite a few things you can do around the campus and outside in the city. You can have a look at them below:

• If you are into studying, you can go to the library on the weekends and enjoy your day. You can also hang out here with your friends.
• You can also hang out at the cafeteria, company garden, or Anand Bhavan and play outdoor games like cricket, football, tennis, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, etc. at MNIT.
• If you plan to go exploring yourself or would like some time alone, you can go to Ganga bridge which is located near Narayani Ashram. You will feel at peace.
• There are also quite a few temples around if you wish to pray. Hanuman Temple, Narayani Ashram, Lord Shiva temple are some of them.
• You can even travel to some places nearby like Varanasi (Sarnath, Kashi Vishwanath Temple), Sitamarhi, Lucknow, Kanpur, and Gorakhpur.
• People who are interested in technology can join clubs and committees that cover various topics like Robotics, Aeromodeling, Coding, and others.
• Many students go to Fun Gaon and to Sangam and Naini for boating. Khusro Bagh and Company Garden are some of the historical places in the area.
• Dosa Plaza is a good dosa place.

Overall, I would urge you to enjoy your college life and make it memorable. These will be the best years of your life.

MNNIT Allahabad is a well-reputed university offering a plethora of opportunities through its production engineering course options to the students. It has been ranked 14 among Top Public Colleges in India 2020 by India Today and 48 by NIRF for its B.Tech course.

Few particulars of B.Tech and M.Tech in production engineering are as follows.

Admission Criteria:

B.Tech Production Engineering -

• To apply for this course a student needs to have a 75% score in 10+2 with science as the mainstream and should have Mathematics and Physics as compulsory subjects.

• Along with this students are required to take the JEE Main exam which serves as the entrance exam for this college.

• The usual cut off for MNNIT Allahabad in JEE Main ranges from 22,796 to 21,752.

M.Tech Production Engineering –

• Candidates applying for admission in this course need a 60% score in B.E./B.Tech.

• Students also need to undergo the GATE examination in order to get selected.

Campus Placement -

• MNNIT Allahabad has a stellar placement record and in 2019 it placed 1,028 students successfully with the highest package offered to be of INR 36 Lakhs.

• B.Tech production engineering students received 100% placements.

• The median salary package offered is 8 LPA for BTech pass outs and 6 LPA for MTech pass outs.

• Top recruitment giants such as Airtel, Amazon, American Express, BHEL, Britannia, Dell, Deloitte, Tata, and many more visit the institute for campus recruitments.

MNNIT Allahabad has average placements, on-campus housing facilities, etc. But in the end, while selecting a course one needs to consider foremost their interest factor in the available specifications and choose accordingly.

There are several professors in the ECE department of MNNIT Allahabad who are excellent in their teaching and lectures for students. These teachers help the students not only in the curriculum but in works related to research and provide other institutional facilities too.

One such example of such a professor is Prof. Amit Dhawan. The point below gives a brief overview of Prof. Dhawan’s characteristics.

• Prof. Amit Dhawan’s lectures are one of the few where students actually learn in detail in topics relevant to the curriculum.
• In most times, 100% attendance was seen in Prof. Amit Dhawan’s class.
• He designed the question paper as such it contains all logical questions, which needs to be solved analytically. No questions in the papers made by the professor require illogical lengthy answers.
• Prof. Amit Dhawan is famous for his lectures in Digital Electronics. He ignites the interest in the subject to most students’ minds in his class. Also, most students receive good grades in the subjects taught by Prof. Amit Dhawan.

These are some of the key highlights of Prof. Amit Dhawan’s lectures, which most students in ECE and also students from other departments in MNNIT Allahabad are well aware of.

The Information Technology (IT) branch at MNNIT Allahabad is as good as the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) branch at the institute. There is not a major difference between the two branches.

• Course Structure: Many people have the notion that IT students are not taught coding. This is totally wrong and almost 80% of the course structure of both the branches are identical. There are some CSE subjects such as Microprocessor, Embedded, etc. which are not taught in the IT branch, and some IT subjects such as Graphics which are not taught in CSE. Else all other important subjects such as Operating System (OS), Networking, etc. are taught in both the branches. 
• Placements: In terms of placements, barring very few companies such as C-DOT, a Government of India (GoI) enterprise, almost all companies allow both CSE and IT, students, during their campus placement process. It’s pretty common to find someone from the IT branch and someone from the CSE branch being recruited in the same company in the placement drive. So, you need not worry about placements from the IT branch.
• Professors and Grades: The same subjects are taught by different professors in the two branches. This sometimes fuels the feeling of a bias of the institute towards the CSE branch among the IT guys which is not entirely true. Even though the professors are different, exams are written by you. So, study well and secure good grades.

The bottom line is that if you are not getting CSE, then you should definitely consider IT if you are interested in coding.

One of my friends was in the same situation at the time of his counseling. He had this doubt and I am sure many of the people would have it too. I will note down the pros and cons of these two colleges so you can take an unambiguous decision.

IIIT Allahabad:

Pros:

• IIIT Allahabad has a huge campus and it’s beautiful over there. In terms of campus, IIIT Allahabad is definitely better than MNNIT Allahabad. 
• IIIT Allahabad is known for its coding culture.
• You will not be taught anything unnecessary like teaching engineering drawing to a CS student.

Cons:

• The faculty base is not that great. Sometimes even seniors take the classes. 
• The timetable along with the assignments becomes very hectic at times.
• It is also a new institute. 

MNNIT:

Pros:

• MNNIT is a very old college and has a rich alumni base.
• The placements are amazing if you are persistent with your hard work and studies.
• The faculties are good apart from a few. 

Cons:

• The campus is small as compared to IIIT Allahabad also; the sports facilities are also just not that good.
• If you are looking for a good coding culture then it's here too but far less than IIIT Allahabad.
• You will need to study some subjects no matter which branch you belong to in the first year.

The table below gives a brief overview of the two institutes.

So this pretty much sums up these colleges. The final decision is yours, compare and choose wisely.