A few of my friends pursued CSE at NIT Raipur and DA-IICT, and here are some tips for you, based on their experience.

DA-IICT is a better choice and the reasons are as follows.

• Faculty- The faculty members are good who teach very well.
• Course curriculum- The campus offers great coding culture and a unique course structure that emphasizes programming from the beginning of the course.
• You get the option to pursue an honors degree in Computational Science that offers unique courses like High-performance computing, computational finance, etc. This gives an edge over computer science students.
• Placements- DA-IICT has 100% placement. The average salary packages are INR 10 LPA and the highest salary package offered was INR 40 LPA.

However, at the NITs, you have to study Physics and Chemistry again and subjects like Engineering Drawing that have no relevance with Computer Science as the first year are common amongst all branches. Only the top three NITs- NIT Trichy, NIT Warangal, and NIT Surathkal are better than DA-IICT.