No, your performance should be better than this to get admission into the CSE branch of IET Lucknow.

• The general category faces higher cut-offs while the female category gets around a 5% chance with high ranks with the UPSEE examination.
• If you belong to the ST/SC category then you might get any branch.
• If you belong to the OBC category there are chances of getting an EI or CHE branch.
• Although this rank is also not suitable for their branches as well.
• You will have to prepare hard in the upcoming year for getting the branch of your choice.

The cut offs of CSE branch at IET Lucknow is as follows:

It is suggested that you work hard for another year to get selected in a branch of your choice.

BITS is the better choice among all as CSE has more scope than ECE. And NIT Surathkal is an old institute with a better placement record than IIT Bhubaneswar. 

Since BITS Hyderabad is the newest among all other campuses and it certainly is a little behind in terms of faculty, infrastructure, etc. But when compared on a national level it is on par with any other institute. It provides the students with a prime location to look for internships and also provides an edge to them if they are opting for off-campus placements. Although the institute provides students with decent opportunities for on-campus placements also. Around 200 companies visit the campus each year and around 94% of the student secured a job through campus placements with an average package of around 5-6 lakhs per annum and the highest package offered was as high as 14 lakhs per annum.

NIT Surathkal is among the top NITs of this country. The placements of students of this branch are also good although NIT Trichy and Warangal have better placement records. The average placement package offered at this NIT is around 14.15 LPA and 100% placement was observed for B.Tech batches in last year’s placement drive.

ECE is one of the new branches that started at IIT Bhubaneswar starting from 2016. Hence the first batch of students will graduate in 2020. In 2019, the average CTC offered in this IIT was 11.44 LPA. Many core companies, software companies, PSU’s, etc. hire electrical engineers from IIT Bhubaneswar hence one can assume the same trend to be followed for electronics and communication engineering also but the result is yet to be seen.

IIT Mandi completed the placement drive for 2019 with 82% of students successfully placed in the top companies. The institute also witnessed a 50% increase in the average salary offered to the students. A total of 45 companies took part in the 2019 placement drive with the CSE department getting 90% placement. The top recruiters were Wipro, Microsoft, Cortex, Amazon with an average salary of 13.5 LPA. Overall the placement in IIT Mandi is good for the CSE department and the number is slowly increasing every year.

IIT Bhubaneswar witnessed a huge increase in their placement trends. In 2019, around 89 companies visited the campus and 90% of the students got the placements. The CSE department got the 100% placement with an average salary of 10-35 LPA. The top recruiters that participated were Google, Accenture, Amazon, Adobe, Dell, Capgemini, etc. In IIT Bhubaneswar, the CSE department placement from the previous years is good and the placement rate is slowly increasing at a gradual rate.

IIT Jodhpur also released their placement report for 2019. Around 75% of the students got the placement with the CSE department getting the highest placement of 100%. The top companies participated in the campus placements were Microsoft, Google, IBM, Morgan Stanley, etc. The average salary offered to the students was 16 lakhs.

Despite being new IITs, these three IITs are good in terms of placements and academics for CSE. Before choosing among these IITs, you should take advice from the seniors at these institutes, explore different aspects and then choose accordingly.

GATE cutoff varies based on the categories of the qualified candidates, and subjects. The previous year’s GATE cutoff for computer science at IIT Bhubaneswar for different categories of candidates was General (625), OBC (563), SC (419), and ST (419). Computer science engineering comes under the school of electrical sciences in IIT Bhubaneswar and has the highest GATE cutoff than other engineering departments. These are the relevant cutoff according to the COAP ( Common offer acceptance portal).

All the students who qualified GATE and want to take admission in IIT Bhubaneswar have to apply individually for the M.Tech program. IIT Bhubaneswar also conducts a written test and viva for the admission in M.Tech courses.

It will be worth it to join Haldia Institute of Technology for CSE. A close friend of mine recently graduated from here and his experience was amazing. The placement record is more than 90% every year with companies like Wipro, Cognizant, and Infosys visiting the campus.

Other companies like Tech Mahindra also recruit from HIT but they are not among the regular recruiters. If you have good knowledge of your branch and have great programming skills then you can easily get a package of more than 5 LPA. 

The institute is located in the industrial belt but the exposure is a little less at Haldia Institute than in metropolitan cities. However, you will have an ample amount of free time which you can use to learn new skills. 

Apart from the exposure, you will get everything at Haldia Institute including a peaceful and calm environment.