These two colleges are the most reputed and preferable engineering colleges in their location. The placement record of VIIT Pune is a little better than YCCE, Nagpur, and especially for Computer Engineering and Electronics and the Telecommunication Engineering department. VIIT and YCCE are accredited by the NBA.

Infrastructure:

VIIT Pune has better infrastructure as compared to YCCE Nagpur. There are digital classrooms and well-equipped laboratories with high-speed Wi-Fi connection and large playgrounds for outdoor games and a library which has 1000+ books and more than 100 journals.

Academics:

VIIT Pune has a more research-oriented course structure. They have a research journal called Viswakarma journal of engineering and research (VJER). Training and placement cells of both colleges are quite active and help students to get internships and placement in reputed companies and research institutes.

Courses offered:

YCCE Nagpur and VIIT Pune are offering graduate, postgraduate, and Ph.D. in various engineering branches.

Admission process:

The admission process for various courses at VIIT and YCCE includes Entrance examinations and Personal interviews.

The entrance exam scores accepted by the institutes are as follows.

• B.Tech- JEE-MAIN and MHT-CET with valid score

• M.Tech- GATE score or JEST score

The total BTech course fee at VIIT Pune is 5.54 LPA whereas at YCCE it is 3.35 lakhs.

Last year a total of 1080 students have admitted to all branches of the engineering department at VIIT Pune and 1020 students took admission at YCCE Nagpur.

Placement:

VIIT, Pune- At VIIT Pune, there are more than 50 companies who are coming to hire deserving candidates through the placement process.

• The average CTC offered is 6 lakhs while the highest salary goes up to 26-30 LPA.

• Top recruiters at the institute are L & T InfoTech, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, HCL technology, Cognizant, Wipro, etc.

YCCE Nagpur-

• The average CTC at the institute is 3.31 lakhs per annum.

• Major recruiters at the institute are IBM, Microsoft, ONIDA, Amazon, Accenture, DELL, Cummins, etc.

It is difficult to compare two different institutes and two different courses. You should choose the course you are interested in and the college according to that.

Faculty:

The Electronics and Telecommunications engineering department at VIIT Pune has approximately 25 professors and almost 16 faculties have Ph.Ds with 12 years of experience. Whereas, the IT department of PVGCOET has 11 highly qualified faculty members.

Laboratories:

VIIT has awesome Electronics and Telecommunications labs such as 3 computer labs, 4 hardware labs, one virtual lab, and 7 sponsored laboratories with LAN and WiFi internet connection. In PVGCOET, there are 5 IT laboratories as per the requirement of SPPU and AICTE.

Alumni:

The alumni strength of VIIT Pune is stronger than PVGCOET. More than 1000 alumni of VIIT are working with reputed and multinational companies across the country as well as foreign.

Admission process:

The admission processes at VIIT for E & TC and IT at PVGCOET are similar. The admission process for B.Tech students is entrance based.

• PVGCOET accepts MHT-CET scores for admission, whereas, VIIT accepts both JEE Mains and MHT-CET scores for admission.

• The total seats for B.Tech for E & TC at VIIT Pune are about 180 whereas, at PVGCOET total intake for B.Tech IT is 60.

• The course fee for B.Tech E & TC at VIIT Pune and for Information technology at PVGCOET is 1.64 lakhs and 1.12 lakhs respectively.

Placements:

VIIT, Pune-

• An average salary of 5.44 lakhs per annum is received by the students of VIIT Pune.

• The top recruiters for VIIT Pune ( E & TC) are Accenture, Cognizant, Ambuja cement, Deloitte, Hindustan Unilever, IBM, GODREJ, etc.

PVGCOET-

• The average CTC received by the IT department at PVGCOET is approximately 5-6 LPA.

• The major recruiters for PVGCOET ( IT) are Infosys Technologies, Wipro, Accenture, Reliance, IBM, Infotech, etc.

VIIT has a strong collaboration with industries and research institutes like TIFR, Amazon Web services (AWS), Microsoft technologies, and many more as a result their placement record is much stronger than PVGCOET.

IIIT Nagpur is way better than VIIT Pune on the basis of overall performance including faculty, placement, and other activities. Both the institutes have collaboration with many reputed research institutes like TIFR, IUUCA, and various Electronics and IT industries from India as well as other countries.

Faculty:

VIIT Pune has 30 highly qualified faculty members for computer engineering whereas the department of electronics and communication at IIIT Nagpur have proficient faculties along with the several visiting professors from VNIT.

Laboratory:

The laboratories are well equipped at both of the institutes for computer engineering and electronics and communication engineering. But IIIT Nagpur upgrades their laboratories for electronics and communication from time to time to provide high-end computational and electronics facilities.

Admission process:

The admission process is based on academic records and entrance examination scores.IIIT Nagpur takes admission through JEE Mains whereas, VIIT Pune accepts both JEE Main score and MHT-CET scores. The JEE Mains closing cutoff for the programs in 2019 is as follows.

• ECE at IIIT Nagpur- 35236

• CSE at VIIT- 2648

The intake for B.Tech Computer Engineering at VIIT Pune is about 180 whereas at IIIT Nagpur intake for the B.Tech Electronics and communication program is 120.

Course fee:

The course fee for B.Tech in computer science engineering at VIIT Pune is 1.5 lakhs per year and at IIIT Nagpur for B.Tech ( Electronics and communication engineering) the course fee is about 2.35 lakhs per year.

Placement:

Both VIIT Pune and IIIT Nagpur have their own training and placement cell. They help students to prepare for placement by conducting Aptitude training, tests, and GD/PI.

VIIT Pune-

• According to the placement statistics of 2019, the highest and lowest CTC offered to the CSE students was 15 lakh and 2.4 lakh.

• Top recruiters are Accenture Ltd, TCS, Wipro, Mindtree, Bajaj Auto, Infosys, Cognizant, etc.

IIIT Nagpur-

• The placement highlights of 2020 show the highest CTC and average CTC received by the students was 20 LPA and 8.5 LPA.

• Major recruiters at the institute are TCS, CleverTap, Wiley NXT, Virtusa, L & T InfoTech, Siemens, Arm technology, etc.

It is difficult to compare two institutes for two different courses. As a course, CSE has better opportunities than ECE. However, you should choose the course you are more passionate about and the institute according to that.

VIIT, Pune offers a BTech, while Singhgad offers a BE program for CSE. VIIT, Pune is ranked 155 for BTech by NIRF. Whereas, Singhgad is ranked 138 for BTech by TOI 2020.

Faculty:

VIIT, Pune has more than 25 faculties for the CSE department and most of them have 10 years of experience in teaching as well as the research field. On the other hand, the department of CSE/IT Singhgad (Pune, Wadgaon) have more than 10 well-qualified teaching staff.

Infrastructure:

The Infrastructure of the CSE department of VIIT is really very good as compared to Singhgad. CSE department of VIIT has established industry-sponsored laboratories such as GSE-RER, ICC (Infosys campus connect), and CISCO networking academy by CISCO.

Admission process:

VIIT Pune and Singhgad follow the same admission process.

• Entrance examination

• Personal interview

These two engineering colleges also require the common eligibility criteria for the students to take admission.

Eligibility- The students should have 60-65% marks in both 10th and +2 science with PCM for the general category and there is 5% relaxation in marks for reserved candidates.

Entrance score- The candidates who want to take B.Tech admission in VIIT and Singhad need to have a valid JEE- Main score and MHT-CET score. In 2019 the JEE Main closing cutoff for CSE at the institutes was 2648 (VIIT), Singhgad (5104).

The annual course fee for CSE at VIIT is 1.5 lakh and at Sinhgad it is 1.24 lakhs for the same.

Placements:

• As of 2019 in VIIT Pune, the highest CTC received by the students of CSE was 15 LPA and the lowest was 2.4 LPA.

• Singhgad also provides good placement for CSE students. In 2019 the highest and average CTC at the institute was 8 lakhs and 2.5 lakh.

The major recruiters at both of these institutes are Accenture, Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, Microsoft, TCS, etc.

Both the institutes are well-reputed and offer decent CSE programs. So, choose the institute according to your convenience.