To answer your question, it depends on your preference and interest in the subject. When it comes to IIT Kanpur, material science is a very reputed course.
The material science and engineering department at IIT Kanpur offers BTech, M. Tech, and Ph.D. programs with the guidance of highly accomplished and distinguished faculty members. Material science and engineering departments are nationally and internationally recognized for its academics, high-quality research, and consultancy work.
The department of computer science and engineering at IIT Tirupati has always been involved in high-quality research and BTech, MTech, and Ph.D. programs are offered to students. The faculty of the department is constantly working for providing better education while working at their premier levels in their respective fields.
Faculty:
IIT Kanpur has a diverse highly qualified faculty of 436 members. Each member of the faculty is a Ph.D. holder in their respective disciplines and well experienced and excellent in their fields.
Most of the professors of IIT Tirupati have completed their Ph.D. from IISC Bangalore, IIIT Hyderabad, and IIT Madras. Some professors who joined IIT Tirupati for following their passion for teaching, instead of working in top MNCs with a handsome salary package.
Infrastructure:
IIT Kanpur:
It has a very well planned and spacious campus spreading across 1055 acres.
The campus is very neat and beautifully laid out for providing students with academic and residential needs.
Hostel facilities, sports facilities, medical facilities, etc are all available on the campus itself.
IIT Tirupati:
It is one of the premier institutes in the country for technical education.
Wi-Fi, labs, medical facilities, sports, classrooms all are available and very well designed.
Classrooms are very well conditioned and the college is very well connected to the market, railway station and the airport.
Placement:
IIT Kanpur:
It has a very active placement cell that conducts training programs and recruitment drives regularly and efficiently.
Placements are brought for students for high paying profiles with a median salary of 15 LPA.
Some of the top recruiters of IIT Kanpur include Adobe, Amazon, Philips, Infosys, Genpact, TCS, Wipro, Samsung, etc.
IIT Tirupati:
In the graduating batch of 2020 at IIT Tirupati, 70 students were placed in reputed companies with an average package of 9.18 LPA.
Companies like Afcons, Ashok Leyland, Cushman and Wakefield, Genpact, TCS innovation labs are some of the top recruiters of the college.
The details discussed above will assist you in making a wise decision about which college you must opt to. However, admissions into both colleges are possible only through JEE Advance scores.