How good are the facilities provided at IIT BHU compared to other old IITs?

IIT BHU provides a plethora of facilities and is on the same level as all the other old IITs and also provides some facilities which aren’t provided by old IITs. First and foremost, IIT BHU provides opportunities to learn some of the courses and foreign languages from the departments of BHU. This is unique in itself. Hostels are huge and almost all of them are renovated now. There are beautiful lawns inside each one of them( where you could play football ), a tennis court or two, some pull up bars, etc. Mess food here is decent compared to any other college, not only the old IITs. Internet speed is quite impressive here. With the new Wifi system installed in the college, access to high-speed internet is ubiquitous and you do not require to have a LAN and a laptop. Wifi downloading speed goes up to 20 Mbps sometimes.

Coming to the campus, it is the second-largest campus (1400 acres) in India with a whole lot of greenery and nature inside. You’ll see peacocks randomly strolling on the roads and monkeys occasionally. The BHU campus is in the middle of the city, so you will have easy access to restaurants, cinema halls, and the main attraction of Varanasi, the ghats. Most of the older IITs are far away from the cities, so you have to struggle for the above. There are newly constructed departments with state of the art laboratories and lecture theaters. A two-story fully renovated and air-conditioned library has been constructed recently. BHU library which is one of the biggest libraries in India could also be used by the students of IIT. In IIT BHU students can engage in sports like football, cricket, hockey, handball, basketball, athletics, taekwondo, boxing, etc. Besides this, there is a temple popularly known as VT (Vishwanath temple) which is one of the major attractions of BHU.

Placements are quite good at IIT BHU due to the huge alumni base of this IIT. Almost all of the major MNCs and other recruiters come here to recruit.