Should I take electrical in VNIT or biotechnology in IIT Bhubaneswar ?

As your choice, of course, is different it’s difficult to choose one institute over the other. Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur is one of the oldest NITs with a good reputation. According to the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2020 VNIT ranks at 18 among all the engineering colleges of India. The placement highlights of 2018-19 at VNIT Nagpur show 68 students from Electrical Engineering got placed. The average salary package offered in the placement was around 7 LPA, while the highest package offered to students was 22 LPA. Top recruiters from this institute include Microsoft, MindTree, Raymond, Nokia, Sulzer, Siemens, and Symantec, etc. 

Despite being a new IIT, Indian Institute Of Technology, Bhubaneswar is doing quite well both in academics and placement. According to NIRF Ranking, IIT Bhubaneswar is ranked at 26. The placement highlights from last year show 90% of students got a placement offer from this IIT. A total of 89 companies visited the campus for placement drive. The top recruiters were Amazon, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, KPMG, L&T, Deloitte, Directi, Reliance Industries, IBM, Tesco, Samsung, Apple Inc, Adobe, Tata Steel, Tata Power, Trident Group, UnitedHealth Group, etc. ISRO, DRDO, IOCL, HPCL, ONGC are the PSUs that also visited the campus for recruiting the students. The average CTC Offered was around 11.44 LPA, whereas 39 LPA was the highest CTC.

Both the institutes VNIT and IIT Bhubaneswar have their merits, so the decision comes down to your choice of course. So, first, choose which course you want to pursue and then choose the institute offering a better program for that specific course.