Computer Science & Technology is a stream that has continuously upgraded its placements year after year making it more preferable be it in undergraduate courses or post-graduate ones.

The highlights regarding the placements are given below:

• The total number of offered witnesses by the CST department was close to 105.
• Computer Science & Technology is one of the departments offering 100%placement.
• NIRF has also accredited that IIEST has the highest package after IIT Kharagpur in West Bengal.
• The institute offers good foreign internships in Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Mc. Gill University Canada, Technical University Of Dresden Germany, University Of Passau Germany, Linux Foundation and National Health Services (NHS).

The placement is therefore at par with the fees taken by the college and it also guarantees a good position in top multinational firms across the globe. The highest & average packages are decent enough in the respective stream.

It is mainly concerned with a naming convention and there is really nothing to it. If you take a look back at the history, the Computer science departments began somewhere around 1982 at both IIEST Shibpur and IIT Bombay. Both the colleges began with different names for the same department and have stuck to it over the years.

If you are only and primarily concerned with this naming, this difference in the name will not have any effect on the course content. You can rest assured about it.

A similar instance is that of BESU Shibpur. They used to honor graduates of engineering courses and the marks they provided were in percentages. This was not the case with a lot of other premier engineering institutes like NITs or IITs where the B. Tech degree is given on the basis of the grade point system.

All these minor differences are something that you do not need to be bothered about. These will definitely not tamper with your career in any way. CST is just the same as CSE.

The list of notable alumni of IIEST Shibpur is infinite and cannot be inscribed in a single document. It is increasing day by day, and so some of the available names of alumni at dignified positions are listed below.

• Dr. T. Mukherjee National Metallurgist CMD Tata Metallics Dy.MD TISCO, Director Tata Group Director Chorus Steel UK.
• Dr. Tapas Som Distinguished Engineer IBM USA
• B.R. Choudhury Executive Director Indian Oil Corporation New Delhi
• Tathagata Roy "Hon. Governor of Tripura" Ex. GM / Chief Engineer Metro Railway Former Founder Professor & HOD Construction Engineering J.U.
• Chintamoy Ganguly "Chief Nuclear Scientist" International Agency for Nuclear Power Vienna Austria Also Ex. Chief Scientist Nuclear Fuel Complex India.
• Dr. Soumitra Banerjee "Shanti Sarup Bhatnagar Awardee" Professor IISER Kalyani
• Dr. Sriman Kr. Bhattacharya Director Central Building Research Institute Roorkee Former Head Civil Engineering IIT Kharagpur
• Air Vice-Marshal Archan Kumar Bhattacharya Indian Air Force New Delhi
• Dr. Ashok Ray "Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering” since the year 2000, Pennsylvania State University USA
• Dr, P.K. Basu Chair Professor & Director Graduate Studies Vander Built University USA
• Dr. Gautam Dasgupta Professor of Civil Engineering Columbia University USA
• Dr. Ashok K Mallik Legendary Professor of Mechanical Engg. IIT Kanpur Voted Best Professor of IIT Kanpur for several years.
• Sir Rajen Mukherjee Leading Industrialist, Founder & CMD Indian Iron & Steel Company ( IISCO)Ltd. MD Martin Burn Ltd.
• Mr. B.C.Ganguly First Indian Chairman Railway Board New Delhi
• Dr. Supriyo Chakrabarti Dean University of Massachusetts USA Ex.Director, Centre for Space Physics & Research Boston University USA
• Dr. Arun Banerjee Principal Research Scientist Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center USA

This is just a list of a few famous names among several dignified personnel, CEOs, Directors, VCs, MDs, CMDs, etc in various top institutes, organizations, and MNCs across the globe.

The fees of IIEST Shibpur keep changing with time, and the present structure is published on the institute’s website accordingly. The present overall first-semester fee is Rs. 42,500, for M.Tech, which is broken into different fragments as stated below in the following table.

Key Highlights:

• The total first-semester fee includes a refundable caution deposit of Rs. 3000. For the other three semesters, the fee remains Rs. 39,400.
• There is a hostel fee of Rs. 1900, which is not mentioned in the fee breakup table.
• Other than the hostel fees, there is a variable mess fee of about Rs. 3500. There is also an extra annual mess fee of near about Rs. 4000-5000, which depends upon the expenditure.

This is the overall structure for the M.Tech fee in IIEST, Shibpur. Other than this, there are other expenses that depend upon the candidate’s way of living and standards.

IIEST, Shibpur formerly known as BESU is doing really well in all the departments. Whether it is about faculty or infrastructure it is growing steadily and gradually.

But as one wants to take a deeper look in comparing mechanical engineering, EE and ETC, let’s take a look on it:

• The research facility of the mechanical engineering department is quite decent and comparable with EE and ETC.
• It is even better at some aspects like it has research collaboration with some of the renowned foreign universities, some of the excellent facilities etc.
• When IIEST, Shibpur was known as BESU even then the mechanical engineering was considered to be the highest ranking department in one of these three departments.
• Also, one cannot forget to boast of tremendous alumni including a couple of directors of IITs.

• When it comes to placement, the mechanical engineering department has a decent placement record so far.
• ME and EE have almost equal numbers of core placements. And ETC has less core placements but the highest package is grabbed by ETC itself.
• The placement for mechanical engineering is really good though. Core companies such as Maruti Suzuki, CESC, Vedanta, coal India, Tata steel, Bridge and Roof, L&T, elegant marine services come on campus.
• So you can easily expect a very bright future of mechanical engineering graduates from IIEST SHIBPUR.
• After becoming an IIEST the placements have improved and after 5 years it will improve more.
• IIEST, Shibpur has always been known for its excellent core teachings. Also, it has one of the best and oldest labs in the country in EE and Mech which has been improved from time to time.

The college is very good for students interested in any of the three departments as mentioned. All the three mentioned departments are very good in IIEST. The thing that matters is your interest and will.