In the recent NIRF ranking 2020, IIT Dhanbad, IIT Jodhpur, IIST Thiruvananthapuram stands at 15th, 50th, 33rd respectively. IIT Dharwad was recently established, and it's making all efforts to be ranked among the best. Here are a few factors that you should consider while comparing these institutes.

Admission:

• For admission into IITs, students need to qualify for the JEE mains exam and get a good score in the JEE Advanced exam. The eligibility criteria are 10+2 with 75% aggregate in the science stream.

• For admission into IIST Thiruvananthapuram, eligibility is 10+2 with a minimum of 75% aggregate in the science stream and a valid JEE Mains score.

• The total seat intake for ECE at IIST is 60. 50 seats at IIT Dharwad for EE and 120 seats for EIE at IIT Dhanbad. 80 seats at IIT Jodhpur for ME.

The required cutoff for the institutes is as follows.

Faculty:

• A total of 99 faculty members are present at IIT Jodhpur and all are Ph.D. holders.

• IIT Dhanbad has a highly qualified and strong faculty network of 332 members and 315 of them are Ph.D. holders.

• IIST has 54 Associate professors, 12 Professors, 26 Assistant professors, and 4 Adjunct Professors.

• IIT Dharwad also has highly qualified professors.

Course fees:

The course fees at the institutes are as follows.

Placement:

• In the recent placement drive, IIT Dhanbad placed 61.90% of its students from the EIE branch. The highest package offered was INR 13 LPA. Top recruiters were Google, Goldman Sachs, Walmart.

• In the year 2020, a total of 83% of students were placed from the Mechanical branch at IIT Jodhpur. Top recruiters were TCS, Maruti Suzuki, Honda, Infosys.

• The top recruiter at IIST is ISRO that hired 108 Btech students. 27% of students were placed from the ECE branch.

• IIT Dharwad saw its first batch of placement, and Microsoft offered the highest internship package of INR 80000 per month.

Scholarships are offered by all the colleges to help the students during their course of study. As for which institute will be better you should decide that according to your course of choice.

M.Tech from IIT Bhubaneswar makes sense only if you are willing to study more on research-based topics of the subject. It is best if one is looking for a career in Teaching, Researching, etc. to further gain knowledge about the subject and not work in MNCs.

IIT Hyderabad ranks 8th in the Engineering category by NIRF 2020. The number of students who got placed from the Chemical Engineering department in the 2019 placements was 26. The average salary package offered to students with Chemical Engineering is 15 lakhs per annum.

IIST is a space institute under the Department of Space. The students from IIST are recruited as scientists and engineers in the Department of Space facilities and Indian Space Research Organization centers all over India. They receive a starting salary of 10 lakhs per annum. Facilities like Infrastructure, Library, sports facilities, Computer labs, clinics, Data centers in IIST are much better and well equipped than the IITs.

Thus it is your choice to opt for what course you are interested in.

In the year 2020, the ranking of IIST was #33 by NIRF for B.Tech courses. On the other hand, MNNIT Allahabad was ranked #48^th by NIRF for B.Tech courses. With excellent teaching staff, IIST is the 1^st space institute in Asia to offer programs in space science and technology.

Admission:

IIST:

• The candidate must have completed 10+2 with a minimum of 75% from a recognized boardin Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics.
• A valid score in JEE Advanced is required.
• The fees for the 1st year inAerospace engineering course is Rs. 96,800.
• The total intake of the program is 60 seats.

MNNIT Allahabad:

• Candidate must have completed 10+2 in Science stream with a minimum 75% marks.
• Candidate must have passed the entrance exam, i.e., JEE Main.
• For ECE 1st year, the feeis Rs 84,666.
• The general cut off for home state students ranged from 3600 to 7128 and for other state students it is from 4615 to 6752.

Placements

• In IIST:
  • Top recruitersare TCS, Adobe, Wipro, Mercedes Benz (India) Limited, Philips, Intel, Bosch, Cypress, UTC Aerospace Systems, etc.
  • The highest salary offered to the student of the institution was INR 10 LPA.
• In MNNIT Allahabad:
  • 90.63% was the placement rate of MNNIT Allahabad for theECE department.
  • Some of the top recruitersof MNNIT Allahabad are the Indian Navy, Dell, Canon, BHEL, E-bay, Adobe, Bharat Institute of Technology, etc.
  • The highest salary offered to the students is INR 25.33 LPA and the average salary offered to the students is INR 10.95 LPA.

Choosing the subject depends on the individual itself. IISR will be really good if the candidate is very much interested in space and technology, as the institute primarily focuses only on space studies. Being a part of the 1^st institute in the world to offer complete range of programs in space and technology will be plus point. Late Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was the former Chancellor of the University. The city life of Kerala is much better than Allahabad. Now, based on all the data and their interest the candidate can choose the subject and institute accordingly.