One of my friends told a story of IIIT Allahabad. It was in his 7th semester when this took place. We were just done with the farewell. He was presenting his end-semester project, and a batchmate called him and told him that there was a surprise check in the hostel. A friend wanted him to come to the hostel immediately.

He hurried up his presentation and ran to the hostel. When he reached, Karan and Raif were in the warden's room. He entered and Virender lined up 5-6 liquor bottles on the table. He pointed to 2-3 bottles kept on the floor and told them that they found this and the 5-6 bottles in his room. He also found a bucket that was filled with green water and some green matter on the top. The table was black from the ash, and the floor was littered with cigarette buds.

He goes on to lecture them about cleanliness and how he wanted them out of the hostel. This resulted in begging and pleading. Karan got pissed and started lashing out at Virender on how the cleaning guy is careless. My friend and Raif somehow stopped his yelling and got back to begging. It was their final month anyway since they had to go to their internships.

He finally relents and gives them an hour or something to clean everything up. So they go upstairs and start the cleaning themselves. He was using a broom and cleaning everything, carelessly. Karan yelled why are you using broom like that (using curse words), and at that moment another batchmate walked in who incidentally was nicknamed 'broom' and got offended and started using curse words as well. 

The situation was hilarious and was one of the craziest moments we witnessed in IIIT Allahabad.

We can compare IIIT Allahabad with other IITs and NITs in many levels, like Infrastructure, faculty, overall performance, The quality of the students, etc. The following are some of the things, when compared to IITs and NITs shows us the difference.

1. Infrastructure: IIIT Allahabad is a newly built institution, whose infrastructure is as good as other IITs and NITs. The institute has good lab facilities, classrooms, a beautiful campus, and well-built hostels.
2. Faculty: IIITA is still a new institution, and lacks professional and skilled faculties. However, there are several young faculty teaching in the institute and in coming years it will become one of the placements of top NITs. 
3. Placement: IIITA placement cell cannot be compared to other top IIITs. The IIITA records do show good average placement, but it is not the scenario of all the branches. However, placement of IIITA is somewhat equal to CS of NITs, as IIITA has a strict placement policy.
4. Environment: IIIT Allahabad has a decent student environment. It has some 1% of JEE Mains toppers enrolled. Which is definitely lower than IITs, as in other IITs admission done through the JEE Advanced. But IITA level is equivalent to other top NITs, including Warangal, Trichy, Surathkal.
5. Research: There is no such research work named IIIT Allahabad. But research works are improving by the institute. However, it is equivalent to NITs. But still not with IITs.
6. Sports and Culture: The Sports and Culture activities on the IIIT Allahabad campus is not good as compared to other NITs, and IITs.
7. Coding: IIIT Allahabad has a good coding culture. The institute students participate in a number of competitions such as ICPS-regional, and it comes second after IIIT Hyderabad. As in ICPS 5-10 teams qualify from India, and only a few teams can make up to an IIITA one team make it on the top of it. 

Therefore, IIIT Allahabad is equivalent to NITs but a level down from IITs.

A friend of mine attended IIIT Allahabad and he shared a few anecdotes from his time there with me. His favorite teacher used to be Dr. Sanjai Singh. He used to teach many subjects from Optics to Digital Electronics to Quantum Mechanics. 

• His favorite topic was ‘Wave Theory’ which he intentionally used to mispronounce as ‘Babe Theory’. This used to be a laughing riot. 

• Out of 80 students, 7 chose Quantum Physics as their electives. He asked those students if they chose the subject on their own or it was imposed upon them. He also said, ‘They assigned this subject to me, but the syllabus is on MIT level. Let’s try and see if we can complete it.’ 
• For Digital Electronics he taught conversion from Binary to Decimal to Hexa for 3 weeks. And started a completely new topic afterward.
• He memorized the whole ASCII table and made everyone note it down from the blackboard by saying there will be questions in the examination from it. 

My friend was very fond of Dr. Singh and still reminisces about those days.

All of these colleges, IIIT Allahabad, NIT Surathkal, and IIT Hyderabad are one of the prestigious colleges in India for Engineering. IIIT Allahabad, NIT Surathkal, and IIT Hyderabad are ranked 103, 13, and 8 for engineering by NIRF.

Admission- The selection for IIIT Allahabad and NIT Surathkal is through JEE Main, while IIT Hyderabad takes admission through JEE Advanced.

Fees:

The fees for the courses are as follows.

• IIIT Allahabad B.Tech IT – 5.34 Lakhs

• NIT Surathkal B.Tech IT – 5.39 Lakhs

• IIT Hyderabad B.Tech CSE – 8.64 Lakhs

• IIIT Allahabad B.Tech+M.Tech. IT – 4.54 Lakhs

Now, as per the question, IIIT Allahabad is a good college and offers a decent BTech+MTech program but it would be better to first complete the B.Tech. degree and then pursue M.Tech.

Placements:

B.Tech. IT in IIIT Allahabad- This college provides a bit more industrial exposure than other mentioned colleges.

• The highest package offered was 36 LPA with an average package of 12.93 LPA.

• The top recruiters being Microsoft, Linkedin, Zomato, and Walmart Labs.

IT in NIT Surathkal- In Spite of being one of the older NITs, Surathkal has been consistent in their placement records.

• The highest package bagged by the students was 39 LPA and an average package of 8 LPA in 2019.

• Some of the recruiters are Amazon, CITI Bank, Microsoft, Myntra.

CSE in IIT Hyderabad -

• The highest package bagged by the students in 2019 was 12.93 LPA and the average package was 12 LPA.

• Top recruiters are Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Jaguar, Bajaj Auto & TSMC.

B.Tech+M.Tech IT in IIIT Allahabad- After completing M.Tech. the placement demand increases automatically. The highest package offered was 43 LPA and the average package was around 10.40 LPA.

Some key facts one should know about those three colleges.

IIIT Allahabad: If one is interested in coding, then IIITA is the right place to be in. IIITA has a legacy of good coder alumni and new batches seem to be excelling this skill. The campus is designed to be a fully residential one.

NIT Surathkal: It consists of 11 support centers and 14 academic departments. NITK Surathkal is ranked 6th among the country's top engineering colleges by Outlook India.

IIT Hyderabad: In the past few years, this institute has established strong ties with various global organizations. IIT Hyderabad has a strong bond with Japanese universities. It has also signed Mou. with the University of Pittsburgh and Kaohsiung Medical University for their student exchange programs.

Go through the facts mentioned above and decide which course and institute will be better for you.