Which is better, core branches at IIT Bhubaneswar or engineering design at IIT Madras?

IIT Bhubaneswar's core engineering branches saw a placement average of 80.6% for BTech students and around 60% for MTech students, out of which, the Electrical Engineering branch saw a 100% placement record in 2020. Similarly, IIT Madras's Engineering Design branch saw an 83% placement rate in 2019.

The table below highlights the essential differences between all these programs:

Other factors which are noteworthy are as follows:

Admission Requirements

Faculty

Department Infrastructure

• IIT Bhubaneswar core engineering branches' requisites are JEE-Advanced or GATE. Students require 75% marks in 10+2 and 60% in graduation.
• IIT Madras offers two dual degree programs; B.Tech. in Engineering design and M.Tech in automotive engineering or biomedical design, with M.Tech in Robotics as an option.
• Students require JEE Advanced qualification/ JoSAA counseling for BTech and a CGPA of 8.0 or above from an IIT for MTech.
• The Engineering Design department at IIT Madras has 18 Ph.D. holding faculty members.
• The mechanical engineering department has 19 faculty members; the core engineering branches have 20-26 faculty members who have received awards like the 2020 DUO-India Professor Fellowship Award.

• Academic and Placement Facts

  At IIT Bhubaneswar, the Electrical Engineering department saw a placement rate of 100% followed by 80% of Mechanical Engineering and 62% for Civil Engineering with the highest CTC of 43 LPA offered to a BTech student and the average package of 15.8 LPA.

  • IIT Madras's Engineering Design department has a Graphic Art Studio.
  • The department of Engineering Design at IIT Madras is the only interdisciplinary department in the country with a focus on form design and functional design.
  • There is a compulsory industry internship for 6-months as a part of the dual ED program.
  • In 2019, the Engineering Design program saw the highest CTC offered, as INR 26 LPA and the average CTC offered was INR 7 LPA.