Which NIT is better, NIT Patna or NIT Jamshedpur?

I have friends studying in NIT Jamshedpur and NIT Patna and both the institutes have good quality education. However national ranking and my friends’ experiences clearly depict that NIT Jamshedpur has an edge over the latter. Check out the following list of good reasons why you should join NIT Jamshedpur.

Placements:

• NIT Jamshedpur has Great industrial and academic tie-up, especially with TATA. Thus you have more chances to grab great placements no matter what branch you belong to. 
• The average package is about 12 LPA (2020 statistics) with the major recruiters being Amazon, BPCL, Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Samsung, Oracle, etc. 
• In 2017, two students bagged a package of 67 LPA. All in all, NIT Jamshedpur has much better placement records than most NITs.

Hostels: 

• You will get one of the finest accommodations for Indian government colleges. 
• NIT Jamshedpur has built two new mega hostels having about 1500 single seated rooms in total with the facilities of lift. 
• These newly renovated hostels are some of the best hostels in all NITs and IITs.

Clubs: 

• You can choose from various clubs in NIT Jamshedpur ranging from automobile to aerodynamics to quizzing. 
• The aerodynamics team of NIT Jamshedpur, Team Phoenix has been performing great in the International events held in USA. 
• Team Rays of NIT Jamshedpur which is a team that makes solar cars has won The Indo Asian Solar Challenge for two years back to back.

Peers: 

• About the top 2% of the bright minds in the country get admission here. You will feel lucky to be amongst the great talents from all over India. 
• There is no 75% compulsion that gives you a lot of time for self-study. 
• In addition, the gender ratio is better than most NITs as well. Ragging is almost non-existent.

Alumni base: NIT Jamshedpur has a huge alumni base, and most of them are successful within and outside India. Especially you will see that core branches have a notably bigger alumni network. 

Overall this clearly depicts why NIT Jamshedpur is better than NT Patna. Besides the brand name of NIT, the above-mentioned reasons make NIT Jamshedpur stand out better.