Which is better for ECE in terms of faculty, infrastructure, etc.: IIT Bhubaneswar or IIT (ISM) Dhanbad?

According to NIRF 2019 Rankings, ISM Dhanbad was on 15th position whereas IIT Bhubaneshwar was placed on 17th position. Looking from the infrastructure point of view, ISM Dhanbad is very old, reputed, and has got better college and campus whereas, the IIT Bhubaneshwar campus was recently built and it’s equipped with well-furnished labs and offers good infrastructure for a new IIT. Initially, IIT Bhubaneswar offered ECE (Electronics and Communication Engineering) and EEE (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) as a combined course in Electrical Engineering which divided, each started as a new course from the year 2016. In ISM Dhanbad ECE course is offered under Electrical Engineering since 1998.

In IIT Bhubaneshwar, the overall placements in ECE were 86% in the year 2019 whereas, in ISM Dhanbad ECE the rate was quite low as 60.40%. ECE in ISM Dhanbad is still evolving and trying to provide better opportunities for the students pursuing this course. In IIT Bhubaneswar the closing rank was around 5500 whereas for ISM Dhanbad it was around 9100 in the year 2019 for admission in ECE through IIT-JEE. The average package in IIT Bhubaneshwar for ECE is approx 10 LPA which is good enough as compared to ISM Dhanbad which ranges around 8.5 LPA. 

Both these IITs offer a decent ECE program in terms of faculty, infrastructure, and placements, so it’s tough to choose one college over the other.