Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology has been ranked 18th for Private Engineering by India Today Rankings 2020. The college offers B.Tech in Information Technology as a four-year course. The fees for the same is 4.69 Lakhs for the full period.

St. Fransis Institute of Technology is affiliated to the University of Mumbai. The college offers B.Tech in Information Technology as a four-year course. The fees for the same is 5 Lakhs for the full period.

LNM Institute of Technology (LNMIIT) is a deemed university and has been recognized by UGC and approved by AICTE, ARIIA and AISHE. It has been accredited ‘A’ grade by the NAAC. The college was ranked 57th for private engineering by India Today and 77th for Engineering by The Week. The college provides Communication & Computer Engineering as a four-year course at a fees of 12.36 lakhs.

Admission Procedure

• MSI:The minimum eligibility criteria for the course is having cleared 10+2 examinations with 50% aggregate. Further, students are selected on the basis of rank secured in IPU-CET, the common entrance examination for IPU colleges. The course has a total of 180 seats available.
• SFIT: The minimum eligibility criteria for the course is having cleared 10+2 examinations with 50% aggregate. Further, students are selected on the basis of rank secured in MHT-CET. The college offers 120 seats for the course.
• LNMIIT: The eligibility criteria for candidates for ECE is 60% marks in their 10+2 examinations. Candidates are further selected on the basis of their score in JEE Main. The college offers 120 seats for the course.

Infrastructure & Facilities

MSI:

• The college is built over an 8-acre campus and is home to a well-equipped library which includes journals, study material, magazines and various e-learning facilities. 
• The college provides boys and girls hostels and sporting and art & cultural facilities available. 
• Other facilities such as an auditorium, gym, and cafeterias are also available to the students.

SFIT:

• The college is built over a 5-acre campus and provides in-campus hostels. 
• Sporting facilities, laboratories, cafeterias, gym facilities, and shuttle service for students is provided by the institute.

LNMIIT:

• The college is built over a massive 100-acre campus and provides in-campus hostels. 
• Sporting facilities, laboratories, cafeterias, a gym, Wi-Fi facilities, recreation rooms, medical facilities and shuttle service for students is provided by the institute.

Placements

• MSI:The course has a placement rate of 80%. Top recruiters include Wipro, TCS, Amazon, Infosys and Google. The average offer received by students is 5LPA. The highest package goes up to a whopping 20LPA.
• SFIT: The course has a placement rate of 80%. Top recruiters include L&T, Capgemini, TCS and Wipro. The average offer received by students is 3.5LPA. The highest package goes up to 14LPA.
• LNMIIT: The course has a placement rate of 95%. Top recruiters include Amazon, Oyo, Uber and Adobe. The average offer received by students is 10LPA. The highest package goes up to a whopping 36LPA.

All 3 colleges stand toe-to-toe with one another, being the top private MBA institutes in the country. The colleges have a similar admission procedure. LNMIIT has a bigger campus, costlier fees structure, better placement packages, and rankings compared to the other two. However, MSI and SFIT are much cheaper and provide decent placements. A choice among the three depends upon the importance of each parameter for the student.

Most of the children’s choice will be engineering after their 12th grade. At that point, St. Francis Institute of Technology and Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Mumbai belong to sister concerns. Both the colleges are approved by AICTE and come under Mumbai University affiliation. St. Francis provides several scholarships to the minority community students when Don Bosco reserves 51% of seats for the minority community (Roman Catholic Community). The admission criteria for students in both the colleges will be based on JEE Main, MHT- CET, GATE, GPAT.

The table given below gives a brief overview of both the institutes:

To enhance students’ communicative and extracurricular skills both the colleges offer literary clubs and certified courses. When it comes to teaching methods both the colleges provide lab facilities, seminar rooms and counseling cells for student’s development. However, students can choose the college which is nearer to their home to avoid spending time on travelling, because both the colleges’ flood with a lot of assignments.