I have a friend at IIIT Pune. I only heard good things about the institute from him. Here are some facts about IT at PICT and CSE at IIIT-Pune, which may help you to decide. 

Teachers:

• All of the faculties of IIIT-Pune are Ph.D. holders from institutes like IIT KGP, NITs, and foreign universities.
• Most of the faculties of PICT are M.Tech or still pursuing their PhDs.

Crowd: 

• Instead of going home during vacations, students attend Android and Web development workshops. 
• Faculties encourage students to take up projects and internships from the first semester.

Degree: 

• Students get B.Tech in IIIT-Pune as compared to a B.E. at PICT. 
• IIIT-Pune's curriculum doesn't include subjects like Civil, Engineering Drawing, Mechanics, Mechanical, Chemistry which are of no use in the course of CSE.

Institute of National Importance:

• IIIT-Pune is like all the IITs, NITs, IIITs which is an Institute of National Importance( INI) which leads to a lot of Government funds and monetary support. 
• Students who did their 12th from the MP board or others can receive a full tuition fee waiver for 4 years of their B. Tech since IIIT Pune is an INI.

Sports and Clubs:

• Any student can start a club of their own if they have a passion for something at IIIT-Pune. 
• IIIT- Pune bagged 5 medals in IIT- BHU’s Annual Sports Fest Spardha and continues to receive honors in other sports events as well.

Attendance and Holidays:

• PICT has minimum attendance criteria of 75% and PICT imposes an 80% attendance.
• PICT has 9 days winter break and 15 days summer break, so if you are not a local then you will not get to see much of your family.
• At IIIT-Pune students get 1 month of Winter Break and about 2.5 months of Summer Break. 

Exposure and Brand:

• IIIT-Pune students usually go for two industrial visits to Infosys and Tech Mahindra. 
• IIIT is a brand as there are a total of 23 IIITs in India and are recognized throughout the country and overseas. 
• IIIT-Pune also has inter-IIT sports and technical fests every year where all the IIITs across the country take part.

Students think that PICT is old so it’s better and yes it’s been around for 20 years since PICT’s inception and it has developed whereas IIIT-Pune is just 2 years old and has the potential for tremendous growth. 

PICT is one of Maharashtra's leading computer science and information technology institutions. The coding environment is quite competitive. There are numerous technical events held to test your knowledge. The placements have been slightly lower in the last few years. The main recruiters at the institute are TCS, Accenture, Cybag, etc. 

NIT is doing well in CSE placement. Nowadays, the placement committee is providing better opportunities. Polaris FT, IBM, Samsung, Amazon, and Tesco HSC are the top recruiters. The average salary package offered of 5 lakhs per annum, whereas the highest is around 15-20 lakhs.

Here are the recent placement highlights for the courses. 

Overall, CSE at NIT Goa offers better placement. 

Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology(VIIT) is an autonomous institute affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University. The institute is accredited by the NAAC with an “A” grade. Pune Institute of Computer Technology is a private institute and affiliated to SPPU, Pune.

Admission Procedure-

VIIT and PICT take admission to BE courses based on the performance of the students in JEE Mains and MHT-CET.

• In 2019 the JEE Main closing cutoff for CSE at VIIT was 2443-2648.

• In 2019 the JEE Main closing cutoff for Electronics and Telecom Engineering was 1590-1676.

Course Fee- The fees for the CSE at VIIT is 6.75 lakhs for a period of 4 years. Whereas the fees for E&TC at PICT Pune are 3.86 Lakhs for a period of 4 years.

Facilities-

VIIT: The college has a 7-acre campus with a number of facilities such as a digital library, off-campus hostel, cafeterias, sports facilities, and laboratories for each course. The college also provides shuttle service to students and an on-campus convenience store.

PICT: The college is built over a 5-acre campus and has standard facilities such as Wi-FI, library, laboratories, and hostels.

Placements

VIIT: Companies such as Cognizant, Infosys, and L&T visit the campus for E&TC placements. The placement package ranges for the course from 2.4 LPA to 15 LPA.

PICT: E&TC has a placement rate of 70%. Companies such as IBM and Capgemini come for placements. The placement package offered for E&TC varies from 3 LPA to 8 LPA.

CSE and E&TC are very different as a course. You should choose the course you are more passionate about and the college according to that.

You should always choose the branch in which you prefer studying and building your career rather than focusing on the college name.

In terms of faculties, both institutes boast of excellent faculties in the respective branches with high educational qualifications and industry expertise. IIT Bhubaneswar charges approx. ? 8 lakhs for 4 years and PICT charges approx. ? 4 lakhs for 4 years.

According to placement statistics, IIT BSR recorded campus placement of 89% of students in Civil Engineering in 2019 with adequate opportunities for summer internships as well. The average CTC offered at IIT BSR was around 11.44 LPA. On the other hand, PICT Pune records 90% final placement in Computer Science in 2019 with offers from companies like Microsoft, Yahoo, Amdocs, PhonePe, HP, etc. but they do not provide any internship opportunity to the students from campus.

Besides these, both the campuses boast of highly functional campus life with good residential hostels for the students and peer-learning enabled sessions.