According to media reports, the highest package offered during IIT Ropar placements was INR 50 LPA. Previously, the median package offered during IIT Ropar BTech placements 2021 was INR 12.4 LPA, according to the IIT Ropar NIRF report 2022. Furthermore, the placement rate for IIT Ropar placements in 2021 was 74%. ISRO, DRDO, ONGC, Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum, Bharat Petroleum, Tata Steels, Tata Motors, General Motors, Larsen and Toubro, Indian Navy, Coal India, SAIL, Hyundai, and many others are previous mechanical department recruiters.
In terms of location, IIT Ropar is well-connected to cities such as Delhi, Chandigarh, Mohali, Shimla, Jalandhar, and almost all of northern India. It is close to Chandigarh, a well-developed city with an international airport.
It has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with foreign universities and formed collaborations with several industries and universities to promote the development of research at IIT Ropar. Ropar is a calm and peaceful location that provides a beautiful setting for an institute like IIT.
Many students from the electrical/mechanical department have been chosen for the GSoC. (Google Summer Of Code). The institute covers the entire cost of the student's projects. The hostels are fully managed by students and have separate labs for robotics, coding, and other purposes. Regular workshops and guest lectures by experienced professors from various prestigious institutes are organized by the institute. Regular industrial visits are held to give students appropriate exposure to a practical working environment.
According to data, the undergraduate placement rate exceeds 94%. A total of 293 B. Tech students were offered positions. Six students will receive the highest domestic CTC of 44.10 Lakhs per year.
The average salary for a B.Tech is 18.95 lakh per year, and an M.Tech salary is 10.34 lakh per year.
PSUs such as Oil India Limited, BEL, IOCL, GAIL, Tatagarh Wagon Ltd, and C-DAC took part in the campus placements. Google, Amazon, Byjus, Gojek, Unacademy, Mathworks, Goldman Sachs, GE India, Flipkart, Adobe, Toppr Vedanta, Qualcomm, TCS R & D, Samsung, FlyFin, Paytm, D.E.Shaw, L&T, LTI, and Tata Steel are among the multinational corporations that have participated in this year's placements.
Without a doubt, IIT Ropar is far superior to Bhubaneswar because IIT Ropar provides a wide range of opportunities for its students to achieve excellence in their respective fields.
IIT Ropar was ranked 29 in the 2019 NIRF Rankings for engineering colleges while IIT Bhubaneswar ranked 17. When looking at it purely from the point of view of rankings IIT Bhubaneswar is better than IIT Ropar at this point in time, however, the MHRD rankings should not be chosen as the only parameter. The faculty to student ratio in IIT Ropar is 1:9 which one of the best among IITs; moreover, the mechanical engineering department has a ratio of 1:6 as compared to a ratio of 1:15 in IIT Bhubaneswar so IIT Ropar is better on that front.
Ropar being in Punjab is closer to the northern Indian cities particularly Delhi and it is very close to Chandigarh which is a reasonably well-developed city with an international airport because of which it has amazing connectivity to all the Indian Metropolitan cities, thereby attracting recruiters from these places. On the other hand, Bhubaneswar which is the capital of Orissa is also pretty well connected because of the International Airport. So, in terms of location both the cities are well connected.
The students at IIT Ropar can pursue interests even outside of their courses like many students of the mechanical and electrical branches are pursued the Google Summer of Code(GSoC) which enabled many of them to get placed at CS firms with packages ranging from 28-30 LPA, however, the average general placements for the electrical and mechanical branches are higher at IIT Bhubaneswar as compared to IIT Ropar, it was 8.8 LPA for electrical engineering at Bhubaneswar(2017) and 8.5 LPA for mechanical engineering(2017).
Moreover, particularly the mechanical engineering branch at IIT Bhubaneswar is very well renowned because of its faculty. Therefore at the moment, considering all the factors IIT Bhubaneswar is a better option than IIT Ropar for electrical/mechanical engineering.