It is possible to get into departments such as Metallurgy, Mining, and Aerospace, with a rank as you mentioned above. You can also get into the Civil engineering department, assuming that you belong to the general category.

Moreover, it also somewhat depends on whether you are from the home state or not. You should run a deep check on the latest cut-off as placed for this year.

Here is the cut-off of recent years for both home state students and students arriving from other parts of the country to help determine if you are likely to get selected.

It is suggested that you remain updated with any relevant data about the latest cut-off trends followed by the institute only recently.

NIT and IIEST are long-established academic institutions. Competition for seats at these colleges is intense, especially for engineering branches such as EEE, ME and Civil. While NIT offers 168 seats in ME, IIEST offers 136 seats for civil engineering.

A comparison of both courses and colleges is given below.

Campus

• IIEST: The green campus, with three water bodies, is spread across 114 acres and is intertwined with modern technology.

• NIT Durgapur: Spread across 187 acres, the green campus includes buildings, hostels, and an academic centre. It has two fields: The Lords and The Oval.

Facilities

• IIEST: The institute offers facilities like hostels, Library, Labs, Canteen, School, etc. It also provides hospitals, ambulances, sports clubs, and entrepreneurship activities.

• NIT Durgapur: A number of facilities are offered, including hostels, recreation, auditorium, canteens, labs, guesthouse, computer centre, medical care, library, etc.

Placement Statistics

• IIEST: Top recruiting companies were Accenture, Aditya Birla, ICICI Bank, Microsoft, etc. The highest package was 39.12 LPA.

• NIT Durgapur: The highest package offered was 32.5 LPA. Top recruiters are Wipro, TCS, Amazon, Microsoft, and L&T.

Courses Scope:

• The Electrical and Electronics Engineering studies electricity and electronics. EEE graduates are employed in sectors like Electronics, Telecom, aerospace, etc. Professions include Electrical Engineer, IAF Member, Telecom Electrical Engineer, etc.

• Mechanical Engineering involves the production, designing, and operations of machines. ME graduates are employed in R&D, Design, Production, Analysis, Testing, Installation, etc.

• Subjects taught in Civil Engineering include Geotechnical Engineering, Structural Analysis, etc. Employment sectors for this branch include Irrigation companies, construction, land development, etc.

Students must compare both the streams and colleges carefully. Individuals’ capabilities and expectations decide which one will be perfect for them.

The term attractive is relative, in the context of a CV or resume. You just showcase your skill-set, education, work experience, etc in these documents. Yes, a CV can be well-organized or well-formed. A well-formed CV may be found attractive to one recruiter and in the very same way, it may be found dull to some. So, there is a pinch of luck factor also required. So first you need to consider for what company you are going to apply. Your CV should be target-specific and must target a company that is interested in the skills you have. For Example, If it is an analytics firm then put some extra effort to showcase your interpersonal skills as well as your extracurricular activities. If it is a core technical job then vocational training and other academic projects should be highlighted well.

To make a good cv consider the following points. 

• The font size should never exceed 16. A minimum would preferably be 12. This font looks professional.
• Use professionally used fonts like times new roman etc. Don't forget to make certain comments bold or underlined.
• You should have an email id that doesn't contain anything funny. For ex- if someone named Aditya Ghose makes his email id adityarocks@gmail.com it will not come across as professional.
• Don't forget to use margins in ur CV. Your CV should look clean and spacious.
• The declaration is not needed for campus placement. If you try off-campus then you have to write a declaration to verify that it's your cv.
• Make use of a table to write down your academic qualifications and your percentage of marks, CGPA, etc.
• The most important thing to note is that a CV should never start with the title CV or Resume.
• Don't forget to convert it to .pdf format as it looks more professional.

Hope this was helpful. You can also consult various websites to understand the process better. You can also download some formats for your reference. 

Seeing your interest in both branches, IIEST has a wide scope of diverse cultures and you will find many students from all over the nation. 

IIEST Shibpur offers great exposure in terms of academics as well as extra-curricular activities along with the interactive clubs and fun happening fests. It comes under the Government of India and is one of the NIT. 

However, Aerospace Engineering is not a trending branch anymore and it was in the limelight a decade ago. To open up more opportunities, you will be required to pursue a Master’s or prepare for the competitive exams to get a decent job. 

ECE at Heritage Institute is more prominent but being a private college, it is not up to the mark as compared to Aerospace Engineering. The placement opportunities at HIT are not good. Therefore, all you can do is to opt for IIEST, get a decent aggregate, and change the branch from Aerospace to ECE in the second year.

Acknowledging the contemporary synopsis between the two colleges, IIEST Shibpur has The upper hand; it was ranked at the 17th place by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. It received a prolonged upliftment from the administration, which could be why it does not seem shiny among its companions. Consequently, it is a good call to intercept a rocket equipped to take off and assume that you do not regret the letter that you missed this flight.

Placement:

• IIEST Shibpur invited 90 reputed companies in the year 2020. 311 students got placed with the highest salary package of INR 41 LPA and an average package of 6 LPA.

• Students were recruited at SASTRA by Amazon with the highest salary package of INR 28 LPA and the average package that students got was INR 9.3 LPA.

Infrastructure:

• IIEST, Shibpur always maintains the state of infrastructure and facilities for advanced researchers and consultancies. The department was accredited by the NBA as a great department.

• The facilities at the SASTRA’s department of computing are constantly upgraded for meeting the academic and research needs of the entire campus.

Fees:

The table given below shows the fee structure of both institutions charged for CSE:

CSE Department at IIEST Shibpur: It has played an important role towards the development of the academic environment. The department also offers different research areas for students including broadband computing, computational geometry, Computer Architecture, data mining, embedded system, Machine learning, etc.

CSE Department at SASTRA University: It offers B.Tech and M.tech courses with highly sophisticated facilities for training and Research and Development work in various areas of computer science. The facilities at the department of computing are constantly upgraded for meeting the academic and Research needs of the entire campus.