What is better, ECE at NIT Bhopal or mechanical at MNNIT Allahabad?

MNNIT Allahabad is ranked 48th among top engineering institutes in India by MHRD’s 2020 NIRF rankings. The 2 years of M.Tech specializations offered by MNNIT in Mechanical Engineering (ME) include Computer-Aided Design & Manufacturing, Design, Production Engineering, Product Design & Development, and Part-Time Production Engineering.

NIT Bhopal is ranked 65th among top engineering institutes in India by MHRD’s 2020 NIRF rankings. It offers 4 years B.Tech in ECE with a total of 139 seats currently. The 2 years M.Tech in ECE offers specializations in two fields viz., Digital communication and VLSI & embedded systems. The entire faculty of the ECE department holds a doctorate in their respective fields.

Admission Process and Cut-off:

• Both the NITs consider JEE Main score for B.Tech and GATE score for M.Tech admissions.Admission for B.Tech is offered via JoSAA and that for M.Tech via CCMT.

The cut off for JEE Main 2019 (round 7) of is as follows:

Placement:

The mechanical branch usually gets lesser core companies as compared to ECE and have to appear for non-core placement companies.

• MNNIT Allahabad:
  • ME branch gets core companies like Tata Motors, Tata Power, Tata Steel, Tata Chemicals Limited, L&T, General Motors, Ashok Leyland, BHEL, HPCL, DRDO, IOCL, GAIL, etc.
  • The placement percentage for the year 2019 was 93.64% of the ME branch.
  • The average salary package offered in 2019 was 6.94 lakhs and the maximum package offered was 17.3 lakhs.
• NIT Bhopal:
  • Toppr, JP Morgan, Samsung, Airtel, Nokia, John Deere, Cognizant, Wipro, etc. visit the campus for the ECE branch.
  • The placement percentage for the year 2018 was 91.04% of the ECE branch.
  • The average salary package offered in 2019 was 5.87 lakhs and the maximum package offered was 13 lakhs.

The choice of opting for either ME at MNNIT Allahabad or ECE at NIT Bhopal entirely lies with the students wanting to pursue it. Both of them are entirely different courses offered by nationally ranked institutes, hence should be opted by considering the stated facts and statistics.