Which IIT is best for CSE, IIT Patna or IIT Dhanbad?

While many may find it confusing to compare IIT Patna and IIT Dhanbad, I recommend you go for IIT Patna without any second thoughts. Here are a few points that justify my opinion

1. IIT Patna was a fully established IIT in 2008 while ISM Dhanmad became an IIT recently in 2015. IIT Patna has contributed to the job market and research world largely despite being new.
2. IIT Patna CSE is a well-established department that records 100% placements every year. The department has a highly learned faculty pool.
3. IIT Patna's curriculum is in with that of top universities like Harvard, IISc, and IIT Bombay.
4. IIT Patna has strong relations with foremost industry leaders and top universities 

My friends from IIT Dhanbad themselves often claim their institute to be inferior to IIT Patna.

IIT Patna is better for CSE. It has a great competitive coding culture. The official computer club of IIT Patna is NJACK. It is a thriving community of coders. They organize monthly contests to promote the coding culture further. 

The strong competitive coding culture of the institute is one of the reasons, this branch has a good placement record. IIT Patna CSE average package had been INR 26.95 LPA, for the 2022 campus drive. 

The research interface for CS is nothing sort of phenomenal. IIT Patna has signed an MoU with Flipkart for joint research in Artificial Intelligence-Natural Language Processing-Machine Learning. 

The institute added two new branches related to CSE, i.e. BTech AI and Data Science, BS in Mathematics and Computing. So, the overall technical culture on campus is going to advance.