Both Assam University and IIIT Manipur are very reputed and popular institutes. Here is a brief overview of the two institutes. 

Assam University: 

• Assam University is a central university and the technical department of this university has been functional since 2006. It is situated about 25 km away from Silchar and there are no problems traveling to the main campus. 
• The administration of this university is quite poor being a central university and there are many issues that are not being addressed yet. 
• There are very few hostels available and only 30-40% of the students get allotment in hostels. 
• There are internet facilities available but some services like fee payment are yet to be made online. And the results never get declared within 45 days of time. 
• The placements of this university are not very good as many companies don't prefer to visit the campus due to its location but there are many students who have received good offers from reputed companies through off-campus placement. The average CTC offered at campus placement is 1-2 LPA. And some students are also pursuing MS from top foreign universities. 

IIIT Manipur: 

• IIIT Manipur is a newly built institute and it is situated in Heingang which is nearly 10 km away from the main city of Imphal. This institute now has 5 departments including physics and mathematics from pure sciences. 
• The first batch of this institute has passed out in 2019, so there are no such statistics about placements, but it has the Indian Institute tag so it will definitely attract some reputed companies to visit the campus especially from the IT sector. The average CTC offered is 5 LPA.
• But in this college there have been some issues about ILP (Inner Line Permit), so keep this in mind before taking admission to this college. 
• IIIT Manipur has been very promising in sports and the students of this college have bagged various medals and awards in many intercollegiate competitions. 

Hence, Assam University will be a good option in terms of academics and infrastructure but in terms of sports and placements, IIIT Manipur will be a better option as this institute will beat Assam University in terms of placements over the coming years. Scoring better marks is also easier at IIIT Manipal. 

After IITs and NITs, students will always prefer IIITs as they offer neck to neck competition to other institutes. IIIT Dharwad being recently established offers stiff competition to other IIITs. All three colleges claim to have placed more than 70% of its students. Facilities like well-ventilated hostel rooms, cafeteria, digital library, and scholarships to different categories.

Admission:

• For admission into IIIT colleges, students need to appear for the JEE(Joint Entrance Exam) mains exams and get a good rank for the same. Admission is purely merit-based.

• IIIT Manipur has 50 seats for both ECE and CSE branches. IIIT Dharwad has 75 seats in the ECE branch. IIIT Kottayam has 192 seats in the CSE branch and 48 seats in the ECE branch.

The required cutoff for the institutes is as follows.

Faculty:

• IIIT Dharwad has a dedicated group of experienced faculty and many are yet to join the institute.

• IIIT Manipur had 6 Assistant professors, professors, Ph.D. holders helping students in every field.

• IIIT Kottayam is composed of experienced faculty for each branch as well as for research.

Well developed laboratories and computer centers are set up for the students of ECE and CSE students for these colleges.

Course fees:

The fee structure varies for different colleges depending on the facilities provided. The fee structure per year for BTech at these colleges is as follows.

• IIIT Dharwad: INR 2,10,000

• IIIT Manipur: INR 1,87,945

• IIIT Kottayam: INR 1,35,000

Placement:

• IIIT Dharwad showed a decent placement record of 94% in the recent statistics. The highest package offered was INR 11 LPA and the average was INR 7 LPA. Some of the top recruiters were Atria, Code, Greenock, Goldman Sachs, TCS.

• IIIT Manipur being recently established could place only 17 out of 23 students in reputed companies. Because of the remote location, many corporate companies did not visit. But a surge in admission can be noticed this year.

• The highest package offered at IIIT Kottayam was INR 10 LPA, and the average was INR 5 LPA. The placement percentage was 75%.

All the colleges above are recently established but still provide head-on competition to other institutes. The remarkable progress in the placement percentage, student admission, faculty is clearly visible. Students can opt for any of these colleges.

Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology (SLIET) was deemed to be a university approved by AICTE and MHRD. It is an autonomous institute. It is ranked 137 for BTech by NIRF 2020.

IIIT Manipur was established under the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) approved by the Govt. of India. They have a faculty strength of 13 members and 107 student strength. Each department has 110 seats.

The table given below shows a brief overview of the institutes:

Admission Requirements

• Candidates should have 60% in their 10+2 qualifying exam.
• Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics is compulsory.
• Final selection will be based on the entrance exam.

Placements 

SLIET 

• The median salary package offered is 3 LPA.
• The top recruiting companies include Jaro Education, Godrej, Hindustan Unilever, Nestle, TCS, Virtusa, Asian Paints, etc.

IIIT Manipur 

• CSE department received better placement percentage than ECE.
• They also offer internship opportunities.
• The top recruiting companies include Chegg, Hashroot, Interview Bit, IBM, Google, Internshala, etc.

Facilities 

SLIET 

• They have a central library, health centre, sports facilities and an innovation cell.
• There are 9 boys and 4 girls hostels having the capacity of 235 and 230 students respectively.
• Boys PG can accommodate 80 and girls PG can accommodate 81 students.

IIIT Manipur

• They provide hostel and library facilities.
• The whole campus is wifi enabled.
• They also have clubs for co-curricular activities.

CSE involves computer programming and networking, computation, algorithms, programming languages, program design, computer software and hardware. Computer Engineers can work as System Database Administrator, Computer Programmer, Engineering Support Specialist, Data Warehouse Analyst, System Designer, Software Developer, Software Engineer, Lecturer or Professor, Computer Operator and Research Analyst.

NIT Meghalaya ranks 61st for BTech by NIRF 2020. 104 students were placed in the 2018-2019 placement program conducted by the institute. It is accredited by AICTE.

IIIT Manipur is an autonomous university established under MHRD. It has a faculty strength of 13 members and a student population of 107.

NIT Manipur ranks 158th for BTech by NIRF 2020. It is recognized by UGC and AICTE. It has a 300+ acres campus area. It has a faculty strength of 70 members most of them being highly qualified and PhD holders.

Admission Details - 

• Applicants should have at least 75% in their 10+2 qualifying exams.
• For MTech applicants 60% in BTech or BE is required.
• NIT Meghalaya conducts a written examination and interview for postgraduate applicants.
• Qualifying for JoSAA counselling process will be based on the applicants merit.

Placements 

NIT Meghalaya 

• 80 companies participated in the placement and made 103 offers.
• Top Companies like Accenture, Wipro, Infosys, Bosch, Vedanta, Cortex, Sapient, Polaris and many more participated in the placement program of NIT Meghalaya.

NIT Manipur

• A total of 20 companies visited the campus
• 50 students were placed through the placement program in NIT Manipur. 
• The companies are Microsoft, Wipro, Accenture, Infosys, IBM, Capgemini, etc.

IIIT Manipur

• Placement in IIIT Manipur is very low. 

• The companies that participated in the placement program are IBM, Hashroot, Google Summer of Code, Antares Tech, Chegg, etc.

Facilities 

IIIT Manipur 

• They have proper hostel facilities.
• The whole campus is wifi enabled.
• They also provide library facilities to all the students.

NIT Meghalaya

• It has a 300 acres of campus area.
• They have a faculty of 93 members 85 of them being PhD holders.
• They have a central library, computer centres, state of art classrooms, healthcare and sports facilities.

NIT Manipur

• They have 2 boys and 1 girls hostel.
• They have sports grounds and courts.
• They provide Healthcare facilities.
• The campus has a central library.
• It also consists of an ATM.

NIT Meghalaya has considerably better records in placements, salary packages, participation of top companies, etc. It would be a better choice among these. But it completely depends on the student’s choice to choose which college to study in.