BP Poddar is affiliated to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT) and is approved by AICTE. It is ranked 201 for BTech by NIRF 2020. Each department has a student intake of 120 students.

Asansol Engineering College is a self financed institute and is affiliated to MAKAUT. It is approved by AICTE. They have 3000 students and 200 faculty members and lab assistants. The faculty members are highly qualified in their respective fields.

Admission Requirements 

• Students should have 45-50% in their 10+2 to be eligible for application.
• Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics should be the compulsory subjects.
• Students have to take the WBJEE or JEE Main entrance examination.
• Selection will be merit based on the entrance examination.

The table given below shows a brief overview of the institutes:

Categories	BP Poddar	Asansol Engineering College
Cut Off	13235-17716	16584-30024
Course Fee	3,70,200	1,34,094
Entrance Exam	WBJEE, JEE Main	WBJEE, JEE Main
Placement Percentage	76.82%	60%
Highest CTC	8-9 LPA	8 LPA
Average CTC	4-5 LPA	3.5 LPA

Placements 

BP Poddar 

• • The college offers services like career exploration, work readiness, career planning, career counseling, skill development, identification of employment opportunities, job placements and ongoing support.
  • On site and In house training are also provided to students.

• The top recruiting companies for IT are Deloitte, Wipro, Infosys, IBM, TCS, Accenture, HCL, Adobe, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, etc.

Asansol Engineering College

• 350 job offers were made and a total of 165 students were placed.
• The top recruiting companies for IT are Deloitte, TCS, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Wipro, Infosys, IBM, Accenture, HCL, Adobe, etc.

Facilities 

BP Poddar 

• Their central facilities include a library, language lab, computer facilities, sports and games facilities, cafeteria and healthcare facilities.
• They have both AC and Non-AC hostels. 
• The boys hostel can accommodate 125 students and the girls hostel can accommodate 110 students.

Asansol Engineering College

• They have a central library and 6 departmental libraries.
• The college offers 3 boys and 2 girls hostels with basic amenities and recreational facilities.
• They have a Gym with Modern equipment and machines.
• They have a well maintained, hygienic and airy cafeteria.

Students graduating with IT can work as Cloud Architect, Cloud Consultant, Computer and Information Research Scientist, Computer Network Architect, Network Engineer, IT Analyst, Customer Support, IT Support, Date Quality Manager, Information Security Expert, Mobile App Developer, Programmer or Coder, Software Engineer, Frontend Developer and Web Developer. Both the colleges have good reputation among students and professionals.

The Electrical branch at Asansol Engineering College offers BTech and MTech programs under the aegis of R Sarkar with 18 years of experience in the teaching field. Similarly, over 75% of faculty members in the Electrical Engineering department at B.P. Poddar Institute of Management has more than 10 years of experience. The faculty members at AEC regularly go through Faculty Development Programs, Conferences, Workshops, and Research initiatives.

Here's a tabular overview of both the institutes:

Parameters	Asansol Engineering College	BP Poddar Institute of Management
Overall Placement Percentage 2019	82	76.8
Campus size (acres)	17	10
Total Fee	INR 4.2 LPA	INR 3.9 LPA
Package Range	INR 2.5-6.1 LPA	INR 4.2 LPA
Total Seats	60	60

Other important factors to be considered are as follows:

Admission Requirements

• Candidates seeking admission to the B-Tech Degree at Asansol Engineering College should have a minimum aggregate of 45% marks in Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry.
• A suitable rank in WB JEE or JEE Mains must be submitted as well.
• Candidates seeking admission to the 1st year MTech should have completed B.Tech or M.Sc and qualified the WBUT PGET as well.
• Students at BP Poddar Institute of Management need to submit 50% marks in 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry, Maths and should also qualify the WBJEE or JEE Main with the score required.

Infrastructure

• The electrical branch at BP Poddar Institute of Management has 10 equipped labs including the Power System Lab; Electrical and Electronics Lab; and the Electrical Machine Lab.
• Industrial visits have been organized in 2020 by L&T Switch Gear Training Centre; CESC Ltd, and CTS on Marketing in COVID 19 World, Logistics, and Supply chain management in Corona Era, Industry and International Faculty Development program, etc.
• Asansol Engineering College has a Central Library, 3 seminar rooms, and a computation lab with 30 computers.

Placement facts

• In 2019, the highest package of INR 6.5 LPA was offered by Persistent Systems to BTech students.
• The top recruiters from the Electrical Branch at BP Poddar Institute are Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, BYJU's, etc.
• In 2019, the average placement rate of the department was 80% with the highest salary offered to be INR 10 LPA. In 2017, placements were held at Techno lake Kolkata.

Both the colleges have a good placement rate of their Electrical branches and have all contemporary infrastructural facilities available as labs and industry-oriented workshop spaces. Students may choose according to resource utilization and future prospects.

Asansol Engineering College and the Banwarilal Bhalotia college rank among the top ten BBA/BBM colleges in Asansol. Where Asansol Engineering College is private and affiliated to the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), BB College is government-aided. The average salary offered for BBA at Asansol Engineering College in 2018 was INR 6.1 LPA and that of BB College was INR 3 LPA.

The table below highlights the basic differences in colleges:

Parameters	Asansol Engineering College	Banwarilal Bhalotia College
Campus size (acres)	17	7.8
Total BBA Fee	INR 2.6 LPA	INR 21,690
Package Range	INR 3.4	INR 3 LPA
Total Seats	60	120

Other important factors on the BBA program at both the institutes are as follows:

Admission Requirements

• Asansol Engineering College BBA Admissions and BB College BBA Admissions require students to have passing marks in 10+2 in a course relevant stream with
• Admission will be based on the merit list of marks received in the 12th exams.

Candidates interested in a BBA program at AEC have to contact the College Admission Cell or City Office for admission directly.

Faculty and Infrastructure

• Where Asansol Engineering College has a total of 200 faculty members and lab assistants; BB College has 71 total faculty members of which 6 have been assigned for the BBA program.

• BB College has 2 hostels; a fitness centre, a library, a Distance Learning Center, and a Placement Cell.
• Asansol Engineering College has two seminar halls with 1500 sq ft and 1700 sq ft spaces respectively. There are five hostels present as well along with a gym, sports complex, and cafeteria.

Placement facts

• In 2018, Asansol Engineering College students have received 350 job offers from companies like TCS, Mindtree, Bosch, Amdocs, etc.
• In 2019, the average payment offered to BBA students was INR 2.4 - 3 LPA and the highest was INR 8.5 LPA. Also, 16 students got placed.
• In 2019, 2-5% students got an internship.

Banwarilal Bhalotia College does not have an active placement cell and the highest general salary offered has been 4.5 LPA. The college website has no information available on the placement page.

Students are requested to make decisions based on the future prospects of BBA as a field of employment based on the placement and infrastructure facts as both colleges employ faculties based on prevalent recruitment norms.

The BCA Asansol Girls' College has a total fee of around INR 14,000 and direct admission availability is there as well. The BCA Program at Asansol Engineering College has the direct admission provision as well, but with a total fee of INR 2.6 lakhs.

Students who simply have 45% or more marks in 10+2 with Computer Science or Mathematics or Business Economics including Business, Mathematics or Informatics Practices or Modern Computer Application or Statistics, are eligible for the admission in BCA (Honours) course at Asansol Girls'College.

Here's a tabular overview of the two programs:

Parameters	BCA at Asansol Engineering College	BCA at Asansol Girls' College
Campus size (acres)	17	5
Total BBA Fee	INR 2.6 LPA	INR 14,350
Package Range (lakh per annum)	INR 3.4 LPA	NA
Total Seats	60	60

Other measurable parameters of program quality and facilities available are listed below:

Faculty and Infrastructure

• The BCAdepartment of Asansol Engineering College has 10 faculty members with ME, MTech, MCA, and Ph.D. degrees.

• There are 3 labs including the Homibhabha lab and Ramanujan lab with 150 computers; a library; in specific, and six classrooms; a gym, and 5 hostels in general; at AEC.
• The department holds several sports competitions with award proceedings as well, including Javelin Throw.
• Asansol Girls' College has 3 faculty members with MCA, MSc, and Ph.D. qualifications.
• The college has two units of hostels, a mess, and a library, a medical center, a computer room with 60 computers, and a canteen.

Placement facts

• 2020's final year student data of Asansol Engineering College BCA Department states that 11 students have been recruited by Concentric followed by 8 recruitments by TCS.
• The department sees 60%-70% recruitment on an average largely by Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Accenture, or Mahindra Tech.

The BCA Program offered by Asansol Engineering College trumps that of Asansol Girls' College based on its 80% placement rate because Asansol Girls' College does not have an active placement cell but it has a much lower admission fee. Both colleges have good infrastructural facilities.

Asansol Engineering College is a self financed institute and is affiliated to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT) and approved by AICTE. The faculty members are highly qualified in their respective fields. They have 3000 students and 200 faculty members and lab assistants.

CSE involves computer programming and networking, computation, algorithms, programming languages, program design, computer software and hardware.

Tabulated below is a brief overview of the institute:

Categories	Asansol Engineering College
Cut Off	4863-17938
Course Fee	1,34,094
Entrance Exam	WBJEE, JEE Main
Placement Percentage	60%
Highest CTC	8 LPA
Average CTC	3.5 LPA

Placement Overview

• 350 job offers were made wherein 165 students were placed.
• Students of the CSE department bagged the maximum offers.
• The top recruiting companies for CSE are Deloitte, Wipro, Infosys, IBM, TCS, Accenture, HCL, Adobe, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, etc.
• Students graduating with CSE can work as system database administrator, computer programmer, engineering support specialist, data warehouse analyst, system designer, software developer, software engineer, lecturer or professor, computer operator, research analyst, etc.

Placement Statistics for CSE

The table below shows the placement statistics for 3 academic year:

Academic Year	Highest CTC	Lowest CTC	Median CTC	Total Placed Students
2018-19	8 LPA	3 LPA	3.4 LPA	87
2017-18	7 LPA	2 LPA	3.3 LPA	86
2016-17	7 LPA	2 LPA	3.26 LPA	88

Facilities 

• The college has a central library and 6 departmental libraries.
• The college offers 3 boys and 2 girls hostels with basic amenities and recreational facilities.
• They have a Gym with Modern equipment and machines.
• They have a well maintained, hygienic and airy cafeteria.

Pursuing CSE from Asansol Engineering College is a good opportunity for the students wanting to graduate with an engineering degree. Due to the recent rapidly growing corporate industry the companies are always in a look out for new hardworking and talented computer engineers for working. The top 4 companies that offered jobs to CSE graduates from Asansol Engineering College include TCS, Infosys, Godrej and Bosch.