Being one of the most prestigious Universities in India, IIEST Shibpur sees a lot more top companies for placement purposes every year. Jadavpur University on the other hand also has a high placement rate but oversees more core companies as compared to IIEST.

• Funds: IIEST Shibpur receives a high amount of funding from the central government annually, being a public university, and therefore has a better campus, more equipped facilities, and better tech services as compared to Jadavpur University.
• Crowd: Since IIEST is considered among the top college of national importance, it enrolls students from all over the country, therefore, making it a diverse environment culturally.
• Placements: Although, for students looking for courses in CSE, Jadavpur University is known to offer a 100% placement record with an average salary package of 19.96 LPA. Some of the top recruiting companies are Microsoft, Reliance, Samsung, Oracle, and more. IIEST offers the highest placements across the Information Technology branch with an average salary of 5 LPA.
• Course Offered: If students are looking for an integrated course that offers placement services, then the BTech+MTech dual degree course offered by IIEST Shibpur is apt considering Jadavpur University does not offer dual degree courses as part of their curriculum. But in terms of individual placements in the streams of Civil, Mechanical, andEE, Jadavpur University offers some great placements for students amongst some top recruiting companies.

Being well known nationally, IIEST attracts more number of companies for placements but Jadavpur University offers a higher number of core company placements across specific streams. It offers the highest salary package of 42 LPA whereas IIEST offers the highest salary package of 39.12 LPA.

Therefore, students can make a choice related to which university offers better placements depending upon the core subjects they are looking at studying.

IIT BHU has been ranked 11th among the best engineering colleges in India by NIRF 2020. Dual degree courses offered at the Institute are the most popular among the aspirants of IIT BHU in recent years. IIT BHU offers a dual degree in CSE for the span of 5 years (4-years B.Tech + 1-year m.tech)

Admission:

IIT BHU offers 34 seats in CSE dual degree with an annual tuition fee of 88,000 INR.

• Aspirants must clear JEE advanced with a good percentile in order to get admission at IIT BHU in the CSE dual degree course.

• Candidates from the general category had a cutoff with opening and closing rank of 827-970 respectively in 2019.

• Whereas cutoff for candidates belonging to OBC, SC, and ST categories were 273, 448, and 372 respectively

Campus:

• Spread across 400 acres of land, the IIT BHU campus has all the basic amenities like air-conditioned laboratories, auditorium, indoor and outdoor sports club, library with 92,000+ reference books of international standard.

• The campus houses 15,000+ students across India and 65 other countries with its 19 hostels.

Placement statistics:

• Placement records of the CSE department at IIT BHU are amazing. With 100% placement from the past few years, the average CTC offered for CSE dual degree graduates is 25 LPA.

• Lead recruiters from the past few years include Goldman Sachs, D Shaw, Microsoft, Google, ITC, Cisco, Uber, Nautonics.

• The highest domestic CTC offered at IIT BHU in 2020 was 1.06 CrPA while the highest international package was 1.59 CrPA for CSE graduates.

• 204 students availed of summer internship opportunities through the Institute with an average stipend of 80,000.

CSE branch has been consistently at top position at IIT BHU in terms of placement and curriculum. Pursuing a dual degree at IIT BHU has more pros than cons. As you can complete both B.Tech and M.tech at a top University within five years unlike the regular norm of 6 years along with no extra pressure of entrance exam for m.tech. Unless you want to pursue a master's abroad or have other plans in mind, you should go for a dual degree at IIT BHU.

There’s no doubts about the fact that 5 years at IIITA is a smarter option compared to anything else. This is because of the simple calculation that you are going to study the same curriculum for 4 years BTech for 3 years. That is all about the core of CS and IT. One core and two electives are a part of the fourth year in a 4-year BTech program, which hardly makes any difference. 

According to the experts, Robotics is the future of the IT industry and hence, finding yourself in the midst of such an academically enriching atmosphere which ensures a full time access to a premium robotics laboratory and esteemed faculty will certainly do good to you in more ways than you can ever imagine. That’s the kind of right exposure you are looking at.

Moreover, this department at IIIT Allahabad is being funded by MHRD, thus having a lot of helpful and positive influence from the big academic and administrative circles from all over the country. A number of international conferences sponsored by IEEE are held here regularly. A DST funded summer school of robotics is also a part of this institute. IIIT Allahabad is known to have multiple MOUs with various popular foreign universities and has extensive student exchange programs to give the best exposure of the industry and experts to its students.