NIT Durgapur and IIEST Shibpur both are excellent universities for pursuing Bachelor's and Master's in Engineering. Both institutes are located in different parts of West Bengal in famous areas. NIT Durgapur has been ranked and 46th in Engineering Category by the NIRF Rankings in India. It does carry a reputation value to the degree by being a premier institute of Engineering. IIEST is a lesser-known institute but well advanced in their research faculty and content.

In a nutshell:

Courses:

• Metallurgy or Biotechnology at NIT can only be selected after the first year depending on the marks scored by the candidate. Since it is a premier institute, it will be relatively difficult to get the subject of your choice.
• At IIEST, metallurgy is offered in B.Tech however, mining engineering is only offered in the dual program of B.Tech + M.Tech. Thus students who wish to pursue mining engineering at IIEST Shibpur will have to go for the dual degree program.

Admission:

Admission at NIT would be much more competitive than IIEST. It requires a higher JEE mains rank. The choice of the subject involves even more competitiveness as it is done at the end of the first year based on CGPA. Most students who get selected at NIT do not wish to go for metallurgy, however, if you are interested, then it is one of the best institutes. IIEST is relatively easy when it comes to admissions and choice of subjects.

Placements:

• At IIEST metallurgy and mining are considered as research-based subjects and thus do not have high paid placements at the start. However, the mining course does offer better placements and opportunities to study at other premium and specific institutes in India which can land a good job in the future.
• NIT Durgapur, on the other hand, can provide better placements due to its reputation standard.

The B.Tech. program at IIEST may not hold much value, but it is supplemented by excellent research professors who encourage students to take part in national missions and research projects. The competitiveness at NIT won’t provide that opportunity to every student.

Making a choice between two different institutes offering two different courses is always difficult. Both NIT Durgapur and IIT BHU are reputed institutes and offers decent placement, so choose according to the branch you are interested in.

NIT Durgapur is a prestigious institute among the NITs of India. It ranks 47 among the engineering colleges in India according to the NIRF Rankings 2020. The placement statistics of 2019 at this institute revels, the CES department had a placement rate of 88.64%, and 78 students out of 88 got placed. The average CTC offered was around 9.09 LPA.

NIRF ranked IIT BHU at 11 among the engineering colleges. IIT BHU also holds a decent placement record. In 2019 campus placement a total of 49 students got placed from the Ceramic Engineering Department. The average CTC ranged around 10 LPA to 58 LPA. Besides core companies, students can also sit for software companies that come for placement in this institute which is an added advantage.

Being an IIT, IIT BHU offers certain perks but as a course, CSE has better scope than Ceramic Engineering.

NIT Durgapur is one of the top engineering colleges in India and ranked 46th by NIRF 2019. On the other hand, HBTU or HBTI Kanpur has been ranked 166th by NIRF 2020. HBTI Kanpur is AICTE approved and affiliated to AKTU.

Given below is a comparison of the CSE program offered by NIT Durgapur and HBTI Kanpur.

The fees of HBTI Kanpur are lower than NIT Durgapur for the CSE course. However, from the placement perspective, NIT Durgapur is better. Most of the companies hire students from NIT’s and IIT’s; hence there is an advantage of pursuing CSE from NIT Durgapur. NIT Durgapur has alumni working in top MNCs like Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. Also, the NIT brand name has more value and offers many opportunities.

Mechanical/Electrical Engineering is superior to Production Engineering because Mechanical engineers can apply for jobs in the field of Production, whereas Production engineers cannot apply for core Mechanical jobs.

So, instead of selecting Production, I will recommend Mechanical /Electrical at NIT Durgapur in this case. 

Here is a brief outline of NIT Durgapur. 

Choose between Mechanical and Electrical based on your interests.

If coding is your area of interest and you are getting a chance to join ECE at NIT Durgapur then grab it.

• The coding culture at NIT Durgapur is amazing. You will grow a lot here.
• The ECE department has produced many GSoCers and also fantastic competitive coders.
• The department does not pressurize the students much and you can peacefully do your work.
• If you maintain a good CGPA, you can even get a summer internship at ‘CERN’.
• The institute has put in a lot of effort to build a good research culture. The department also receives sponsorship for research. In the past, it has done research sponsored by research initiation grant, DST, and SERB.

If you are devoted to coding, NITD ECE will offer you many opportunities.

These three NITs are oldest and top notch, on the basis of NIRF rank NIT Rourkela is place in top 19 position but in another way NIT Allahabad (MNNIT) is the 1st NIT in India which offer engineering program in computer science so their alumni strength much higher than other NITs.

Tabulated below are the course highlights as provided by both the institutes:

Faculty:

MNNIT has excellent faculty members as compared to NIT Rourkela (22 faculties) and NIT Durgapur (15- 20 faculties) which are about 30 teaching staffs having experience in various fields of computer science.

Eligibility:

The eligibility criteria is but similar for three of these national institutes:

Cut-off:

Placement

MNNIT and NIT Raurkela are providing the average salary of 15.1 LPA whereas the recruiters at NIT Durgapur are offering an average salary package of about 9.09 LPA. So this means the MNNIT and NIT Raurkela at the placement level are better than NIT Durgapur.

IIEST Shibpur holds rank #21 according to the NIRF ranking 2020. The admission is based on JEE Main/WB JEE scores and followed by counseling and interview. For graduate courses, GATE scores are the basis for admission.

NIT Durgapur holds #47 rank according to NIRF 2020 ranking. The admission for undergraduate students is based on JEE results, followed by counseling. NIT Durgapur offers 90 seats for B-tech from electrical engineering.

Admission process:

IIEST Shibpur

• The application process is fully online and the application fee for general is 1,500 and for reserved students, it is 1,000 INR.
• Admission for undergraduate programs is based on JEE Mainand students are required to have at least 45% marks in the 12th board and 40% for SC and ST.
• One must have Physics, Maths, and chemistryin the 12th board.
• Admission for the graduate programs is based on GATE scores and followed by an interview.
• A total of 60 seats are available in the institute.

NIT Durgapur

• The application process is both online and offline. The application fee for ECE/EE is 1000 INR.
• Admission for undergraduate program is based on the results of JEE Mains and also with this, students are required to complete their 10+2 with at least 75% and 65% for ST, SC, and physically challenged
• One must have Physics and Maths in the 12th board.
• A total of 90 seats are available in the institute.

Placements:

IIEST Shibpur

• The major recruiters are Tata Steel, EXL, ZS, Vedanta, L&T, IBM, Infosys, Wipro, etc.
• The average salary of a student graduate from this Institute is 5.5 lakhs.

NIT Durgapur

• Companies like Amazon, axis bank, L&T Ecc, TATA, IBM, and so on visits campus every year for placements.
• The average salary package is of about 10 lakhs in the field of electrical engineering.The highest package was offered by Qualcomm is 24 lakhs.

Both the Institute are good choices for doing ECE/EE with excellent facilities likehuge libraries, good laboratories, classrooms, Wi-Fi hotspots.In NIT Durgapur, the E-study facility is also there. The faculty of both the Institute is equally good with highly qualified teachers. Top recruiters visit the campus every year for placements.

Well, both the colleges are in different states and both have their own set of reports, some good some bad. Though from an infrastructure point of view, NIT Jamshedpur is small and cozy whereas NIT Durgapur is quite beautiful and flourished in about 187 acres of land.

• The campus life at NIT Durgapur is really awesome. Apart from academics and infrastructure, it’s an NIT so you can understand it's pretty good.
• But if you really want to experience it, you should definitely join NIT Durgapur and enjoy the vast playgrounds, clean campus, and friendly environment.
• Though you can get some negative aspects but there is nothing wrong related to campus life.

Similarly, it goes for NIT Jamshedpur.

• Even though the infrastructure of NIT Jamshedpur is not at par but definitely the campus life is awesome here too. The students make the campus lively.
• You will get to see a vast and clean area with basketball, cricket and football ground.
• Though the facility of Wi-Fi is not provided but you will have sufficient speed and workstations to fulfill your needs.
• The mess food provided is of good quality.
• There are many places to hang out and inside the institute only. The cleanliness is very good; in fact, Jamshedpur is one of the cleanest cities of East India.
• The seniors are awesome and do cooperate and guide you if you face any issues.

Both the campus have good campus life and environment. But better contact someone who studies there and judge the authenticity and then choose between the two and definitely consider placement, faculty, and research before opting for either of them. The campus life at NIT Jamshedpur is quite good and you are not going to regret joining this institute.