Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology is an autonomous college whereas Acharya Institute of Technology is VTU affiliated. Both of the colleges have excellent infrastructure, but NMIT is considerably far from the city centre as compared to Acharya.

Placement:

• Students of NMIT get placed into some good companies with some hefty packages. 
• Average packages are around 6 to 10 lacs in NMIT which is good for a tier 2 college. 

Faculty:

• The faculty for EC and CS is good in both the colleges.
• Most of them are PhD holders in their particular field and some are pursuing it. 

Department:

• Life in the EC department of NMIT is not much happening. 
• CS department in NMIT has the best scenario, a good package, and chilled out faculty.

The table shows a brief overview of the institutions:

Particulars	AIT	NMIT
Median Salary	Rs. 7 lakhs	Rs. 3.5 lakhs
Highest Salary	Rs. 26 lakhs	Rs. 23 lakhs
Entrance Criteria	COMEDK UGET / KCET	KCET
Fees	Rs. 8.56 lakhs	Rs. 2.35 lakhs

NMIT is a good pick but placement wise AIT is better. Overall, the Acharya Institute of Technology is the potential choice. 

The CSE departments of these universities are mostly recognized as research centers. The CSE department of JSSTE is accredited by NBA and has been collaborating with many reputed research institutes and IT industries. They provide a conducive environment to carry out research and education together.

The department at three of these engineering colleges can be characterized by faculty staff, laboratories, and placements.

Faculty

• The faculty members of JSSATE and NITTE Meenakshi University are better than BVBCET.

• The professors are actively involved in research paper publication in many national and international journals and conduct hands-on training programs and workshops every year.

• More than 30 faculties are there and most of them hold Ph.D. degrees along with research in different areas of IT and computer science.

Infrastructure

• The computer science laboratories at NITEE Meenakshi university are far better than the BVBCET and JASSATE. 
• They have 12 state-of-the-art laboratories and all are well equipped with WiFi internet connection and the computers are installed with necessary application software. 

Admission criteria

All these universities conducted entrance examinations for admission. Following are admission criteria by JSS, BVBCET, and NITEE Meenakshi university:

• Academic marks: The students who have passed in 10+2 science (PCM) with 45% from any of the recognized universities. The mentioned academic marks for admission are similar in three of these universities.

• Entrance examination: The entrance examinations accepted by these universities are KCET/JEE-MAIN or ComedK. 

Cut off

The total cut-off at these institutes as per 2019 are provided below;

Institutes	Cut off
JSS Bangalore	639-1176
BVBCET	5841
NITTE Meenakshi university	4134

Placement

The placement record of 2019 at all these universities are quite impressive for CSE. The detailed information of placement are given below;

JSS:

• The highest CTC provided by JSSATE which is 43.17 LPA in 2019.
• Some of the top recruiters include Amazon, Adobe, Accenture, Wipro, Cognizant, Microsoft, Cisco, TATA, Intel, etc.

BVBCET:

• BVBCET offered the average salary package of 18-20 lakhs per annum through the placement process of 2019 and the highest package of 30 LPA.
• The top recruiters include Sony, TATA Hitachi, Amazon, Analog devices, IBM, Samsung R&D, etc.

NITEE Meenakshi University: 

• NITEE Meenakshi university provides the highest salary package of about 25-27 lakhs per annum.
• Some of the top recruiters of the university include Wipro, Infosys, Unisys, NUTANIX, Tech Mahindra, Capgemini, HP, Dell, IBM, Accenture, etc.

JSS Bangalore and NITEE Meenakshi university are better options for computer science engineering as compared to BVBCET on the basis of CTC offered through placement drive.

From the given list of institutions, NITTE Meenakshi is highly recommended over the rest of the institutes.

Following are some reasons why you should choose NITTE Meenakshi.

• It has a great campus with decent placement records, an excellent crowd, and above-average faculty.
• The fact that it is an autonomous institution is like a cherry on the cake as the students don't have to face problems faced by VTU students. Being an autonomous university, it offers a great curriculum, student diversity, and modern infrastructure. 
• The only con is the location which is away from the city, but there is good connectivity to the college.

Given below is a brief overview of the five institutes. 

Basis	CMRIT	DSATM	REVA	NITTE Meenakshi	SJBIT
Highest CTC	INR 11.76 LPA	INR 20 LPA	INR 21 LPA	INR 19.6 LPA	INR 10 LPA
Average CTC	INR 4.87 LPA	INR 4-6 LPA	INR 3.5-5.5 LPA	INR 4.5 LPA	INR 4.5 LPA
NIRF Ranking 2020	174	126	151-200	128	-

So, on the basis of the above-highlighted information, it is safe to say NITTE Meenakshi is a better alternative.