NIT Trichy offers a great learning experience, especially in CS. EE at IIT Dhanbad and IIT Bhubaneshwar is also decent and the placements are quite good and with either of the IITs, you would get that IIT tag. So, it actually boils down to your choice between an IIT and NIT and if you want to give preference to IITs. 

The average package for EE at NIT Trichy was around 6 LPA with a 97% placement rate for EE students. On the other hand, for IIT Dhanbad, the placement percentage was 76% with the average package of around 15.5 LPA. In IIT Bhubaneshwar, the average package for 2019 was around 11 LPA and the placement rate was around 86% from EE.

Although, the tag isn’t only something one should go after. NIT Trichy’s EE is excellent and the placements are equally great. Good infrastructure, excellent teachers, and a decent learning and developing environment are what one should seek, and thereby, NIT Trichy would be an excellent choice since IIT Dhanbad and IIT Bhubaneshwar are newer IITs. NIT Trichy, Warangal, Surathkal are better than most IITs.

So, it completely comes down to your personal preference.

IIT Bhubaneswar is among the top engineering colleges in India. According to the NIRF Rankings it is placed at 17th in the engineering category. The Electrical Engineering program offered by IIT Bhubaneswar is good both in terms of academics and placements.

The eligibility criteria for EE is aggregate marks of 75% in 10+2. The selection for admission is done based on the performance of the student in JEE Advanced. In 2019 the JEE Advanced closing cutoff for EE at IIT Bhubaneswar was 2276-8787 (general category). The fees for the first-year is INR 2.14 LPA.

At present, the School of Electrical Science at IIT Bhubaneswar has 33 full-fledged laboratories well-equipped with modern instrumentation. The School has excellent faculties and most of them hold PhDs in their respective disciplines.

Electrical engineering has maintained a steady placement of 86% for the last three years. In 2019, 87% of the students from EE got placements in many top MNCs. The average CTC offered was INR 15.8 LPA, while the highest was around INR 43.3 LPA. MNCs like Deloitte, TCS, Capgemini, Goldman Sachs, etc. participated in the placement drive.

If we talk about statistics and past records, IIT Bhubaneshwar is a better choice.

IIT’s have the best faculties in the country. The level of research work and the flexibility IITs provide is exceptional. The companies that come for placement purposes are also distinguished from other colleges. The infrastructure at IIT Bhubaneshwar is developed and the campus is very well sustained for overall development.

Since Electrical Engineering has been from the start of IIT BBS, placements are great there. The placements for the early years were not that great but for the last 2 years, the situation is incrementing. In 2019 the placement rate for EE at IIT Bhubaneswar was 86%. The highest package went around 39 LPA by Adobe.

Placements at BITs Hyderabad have been relatively lower with median CTC around 5 LPA and the highest CTC around 14 LPA. Around 94% of the students got placed from the campus last year.

Both the brands are prominent ones, but the level of exposure and opportunities that you will get at IIT Bhubaneshwar may overpower that of BITS Hyderabad.

As an institute, IIT Madras is much ahead of IIT Bhubaneswar, as it is one of the oldest and reputed IITs. But electrical engineering in IIT Bhubaneswar is quite good and offers many opportunities. The institute also has very impressive placement stats. In the year 2019, around 86% of students got placed from the Electrical engineering branch. The official average package for the batch 2017 as released by the institute (IIT Bhubaneswar) for Electrical Engineering was 8.5 LPA. A good number of core companies, software companies and PSU’s hire Electrical Engineers (EE) from IIT Bhubaneswar.

Also, Chemical engineering is a great branch with many prospects. Companies like O&G, Chemical Research firms- for both India & abroad visit regularly for placements. The non- core companies like Fin, MC. Techs are also open for Chemical Engineers. IITM offers decent placements, in 2019 there was 85.52% placement from duel degrees and the placement rate for Chemical Engineers was around 74%. The average CTC offered in IITM was 16 LPA.

IITM is good for the students who are interested in chemical engineering and would like to pursue MS/Ph.D. in the top universities. If you are looking for careers in research then chemical engineering provides ample opportunities. Getting a dual degree will also build a way for R&D roles in many companies such as ITC, Shell, HUL, etc. Also, the best part about going for chemical engineering is that it provides ample opportunities for people to prepare for non-core sectors as well.

So, choose the branch of your interest.

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.