IIEST Shibpur is located in Howrah on the banks of the Hooghly river. Transportation is very easy, you can choose to travel by flights, trains or busses.

How to reach IIEST Shibpur:

1. Flight: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is the nearest airport to IIEST. After landing there, you can take a taxi from the airport to reach IIEST. 
2. Train: There are two train stations, Sealdah Railway Station, and Howrah Railway Station. After arriving at either train station, you can take a bus from there to reach IIEST. You can take a minibus in red and yellow color from Howrah Railway Station. 
3. Bus: If you are thinking of arriving by bus you have to change buses to arrive at the IIEST. Usually, the bus route is not the favored one, you can take other means of transport to arrive at the destination. 

Therefore, the route of IIEST is quite easy to reach. It is recommended, if you are asking any local about IIEST, then ask for B.E College instead of IIEST. The institute has two gates, if you are coming from the bus then get down to the first one and take a cab from there.

IIEST Shibpur is equipped with well-maintained accommodation facilities for the students to provide them the comfort of home. 

• Currently, the campus has 15 hostels or halls of residence. With the increase in the number of admissions every year, the management has decided to construct new hostels to accommodate the students. 
• For boys, separate halls of residence are allotted as per their years. 1st-year boys are allocated to hostel 8, 9, 10. Second-year boys are accommodated to hostel 7, 11, or 15. Then, from the third year onwards, students reside in a big hall of residence. 
• On the other hand, girls are allocated 2 hostels. First-year girls reside in Nivedita Hall while from 2nd year onwards, they live in Pandya Hall. 
• In the initial first year, 4 seater rooms are allotted to students. The rooms are spacious enough for 4 students. While from third year onwards students have an option to choose from a single-seater room to multiple seaters. 
• The college has taken full care to provide a neat, clean and hygienic environment to the students. Every hall of residence has its own mess, common room, carrom, table tennis room, badminton court, etc. 
• The wifi facility is available 24*7 with high-speed internet. 
• Many other facilities like newspapers, washing machines, etc. are also there. Apart from that, the management keeps on updating the facilities to make the students feel better. 
• Lunch and dinner are provided in each mess of every hostel. Initially, they have started to provide breakfast but you have to buy evening snacks. You will also get a feast once a week during fests. 

If you are relocating, you need to get nothing to move in the hostel. If you want some extra comfort then only you need to buy which is also available in the nearby market.

My sister was in the batch of (2014-18) at IIEST Shibpur. There were 84 students in her batch, 19 chose a dual degree, and about 60 students were eligible for placements. The major recruiters were M.N Dastur, ZS Associates, HSBC, CGI information systems and management consultants, etc. 

The recent placement highlights for Civil Engineering at the institute are as follows.

This is the placement scenario of the Civil branch at IIEST Shibpur. The number of students applied for placements also matters. Due to their training for GATE, ESE or CAT, etc, or simply the lack of interest in private work, there are a number of students who don’t appear willingly on-campus placement. 

No, it is more or less the same as a bachelor's. Not just at IIEST Shibpur, the scenario of placements for Masters is more or less the same at every institute in India.

If you pursuing Masters then you should keep your aim straight to get a Company related to your branch or pursuing higher studies (Ph.D.) for the teaching line. B.Tech level hiring is more or less the same in M.Tech at the institute. There are some departments in M.Tech which have a moderate placement. The other departments do not offer good placement opportunities. But at IIEST Shibpur you will get the best learning opportunities. 

At last, it is up to you only which field you are choosing. If you want a job then go for it with for B.Tech degree, If you want a purely technical job then go for a master's and if you want an academic line then go for further higher studies i.e. Ph.D. from abroad.

IIEST Shibpur is one of the oldest public engineering colleges in India. NIRF/MHRD ranked IIEST Shibpur, 21st in Engineering Colleges in India. It has 19th rank in Week Top Engineering Colleges of 2020. The campus is not par as those of IITs in NITs, and infrastructure lags.

Admissions:

• To secure admissions in B.Tech in Information Technology, a student must have 10+2 with 45% (for general category) and a minimum of 30% marks in English.
• 50% of seats are reserved for candidates outside from West Bengal and 50% of seats for candidates domiciled in West Bengal.
• The entrance for admissions is JEE Main (Paper 1). Final selection is done throughJoSAA Counselling and CSAB Special Board for admissions.
• The cutoff ranking for In-state students in 2019 was between 9524-17031, and Outstate was 11084-13249.

Fees:The fees for BTech in IT are INR 1.37 lakhs per year, and MTech in IT is 81,500 per year.

Placements:

• The students are offered internships to inculcate their skills and experience. The percentage of students placed in each specialization is 75.
• There is relative consistency in placements from the IT section- 75% in 2017, 88.89% in 2018, and 75% in 2019. As of 2019, the highest recruiting batch isInformation Technology.
• The top recruiters at IIEST Shibpur are Microsoft, Maruti, TCS, and HSBC Technologies.The total eligible students for placement were 68and 81 job offers were made.
• The students with dual degree courses got placement in the IT branch as compared to CSE where no student got placed. Almost 50% of students got jobs. 10 were eligible in this course, and 5 students got employment.

Alumni:

Some of the notable alumni of IIEST Shibpur Engineering department are -Sir Rajvendra Nath Mookerjee- Founder of Martin & Co and Indian Statistical Institute (ISI);Sir Birendranath Mookerjee- Chairman of Steel Corporation of Bengal.

IT is one of the most demanded fields in IIEST Shibpur. One should opt for it owing to its growing placement rate. Even the cutoffs are easy to clear if a student is determined to get in. Dual degree courses are also preferred as they have a fixed 50% placement rate.

This is a pretty difficult question as both the colleges are great in their own ways. National Institute of Technology (Patna) is ranked 134th in India among the leading technical institutes of India by NIRF. Whereas, IIEST Shibpur is ranked 19th among engineering colleges by NIRF. Let's compare some of the parameters which may help you choose which institute will be better for you.

Admission-

Both the institute offer UG, PG, and Ph.D. programs across various streams.

• The entrance exam that is accepted for B. Tech courses is JEE Mains.

• For M. Tech candidates the entrance exam accepted is GATE in both the colleges.

• CAT scores are accepted for MBA programs.

Placement:

• IIEST Shibpur witnessed a placement record of 311 students for the academic year of 2018-2019. The highest recruiting batch was Information Technology. 39.2 LPA was the highest salary offered in the 2019 placement drive.

• Whereas, NIT Patna placed 279 students from the streams of B. Tech, M. Tech, B. Arch. The highest salary offered was INR 39.12 LPA and the average salary was record around INR 7.71 LPA in the 2019 placement.

Both IIEST Shibpur and NIT Patna are equally good. So choose an institute among the two according to your convenience.