Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Amritapuri Campus, Kollam - associated department

One of my friends was a student from Amrita and she pursued ECE on the Bangalore campus. According to her experience, in general, the Coimbatore campus is better among the two.

The reason behind choosing Amrita University, Coimbatore is because of its well-structured infrastructure and great academic culture. The Coimbatore campus has also remained consistent in being ranked high amongst most Indian colleges.

However, for the CS branch specifically, my friend suggests the Bangalore campus. The academic culture in the institute is significantly good. Moreover, the rules and regulations in the institute are not as strict as on the Coimbatore campus, letting students have a better amount of balance.

Since you are in close vicinity with various IT companies and are surrounded by classmates belonging from households where either parent might be working in similar companies can provide you a commendable orientation as well.

As per the recent trends the average and highest CTC offered at the Bangalore campus is 40 LPA and 80 LPA respectively.

According to my friend, you will also have a better peer group with good communication skills at the Bangalore campus as opposed to the other two. So, choosing the Bangalore campus may give you an edge.

I have a friend who is an alumnus from the 2007-11 batch of the EEE branch and based on her input, I would highly recommend you to join this campus! In case you miss out on getting into NIT/IIT, trust me, you should go for Amrita as your third-best choice.

My friend had completed her B.Tech from Amrita and went to a top-notch government college for her M.Tech. It would provide you exposure like no other renowned college in the whole of Kerala. My friend and her batchmates were experts in the microcontroller program. Their expertise led them to participate in programming for FPGA.

• The department and its faculties are highly qualified as expected. Most of the faculty members are doing their PhDs. Plus, some faculties are doing their PhDs from IITs as well.
• Reputed conferences and journals consist of work by the institute's faculty members and students. Good funding is carried out to food projects wherein my friend's batch was one amongst them too.
• The curriculum pattern is super flexible. A lot of spare time can be put into important projects and fast-track courses can be completed too.
• My friend got herself the extremely prestigious student exchange program- Erasmus Mundus. She is currently doing their research for reputed companies in the country and abroad.
• Since most of my friends and her batch-mates were offered jobs by that time, traveling to Coimbatore for that placement was not a big deal. This job opportunity came from companies like Renault, Schneider, Ericsson, etc.

Therefore, one should always consider joining Amrita for the EEE branch.

If you are interested in CSE, then going to Amrita University’s Amritapuri campus will be better. Here is why.

• Amrita consists of active student clubs like FOSS. It consists of a lot of members and participates in Open Source projects, talking at conferences worldwide, getting into and completing programs like Google Summer of Code.
• India’s top 1 CTF team - b10s, belong to Amrita. The alumni of the club are now working in top companies such as Google, VMware, Synack, CISCO, Flipkart, etc with the highest CTC package of 75 lakhs per annum.

If you are into competitive programming, Amrita has an ICPC and programming club, which has produced students to the world finals too. It has produced some of the best coders from India namely, Sai Vigneshwar, Aswin Krish, Sandeep Kumar Roy, and many more.