The placement statistics of 2019 show the civil engineering department in IIT Bhubaneswar had a placement rate of 89%. The average package offered was 7.6 LPA. While the overall placement rate in IIT Bhubaneswar was 90% with an average package of 11.4 LPA and the highest package offered was of 39 LPA. The M.Tech batches had a 68% placement rate. The third-year students also received cushy internship offers from globally renewed organizations.

The list of top recruiters included Tata Steel, Amazon, Tata Power, IBM, Tesco, etc.Students of Civil Engineering in IIT Bhubaneswar also got recruited by PSUs like ISRO, DRDO, IOCL, HPCL, ONGC.

The answer to this question depends on what you aim for after 4 or 5 years of your college degree. If you just want a placement and not particularly interested in a branch then you could go for any of those two branches as placement statistics are good for both in IIT BHU. There are enough opportunities in the non-core sector which generally comprise IT, developer, analytics, product management, business analyst, etc. These sectors don't look for a specific branch and rather require good communication and analytical skills. 

Coming to the core sectors, both civil and chemical provide diverse opportunities in these areas. If you are someone who finds chemical processing and chemistry interesting, then go for chemical engineering. If you are the one who gets amazed by the interesting and defying structures, civil engineering should be your choice. According to 2019 placement statistics, 77 students from Civil Engineering and 104 students from Chemical Engineering got placed from IIT BHU.

Opting for civil engineering would open doors to exams such as IES, UPSC, GATE, and other state engineering exams. There are ample opportunities for civil engineering majors. And if you choose chemical engineering, you can go for higher studies or work for PSUs. So, both these branches at IIT BHU would provide enough opportunities to grow and explore and the end decision should be based on your interest.

The civil (B.Tech) branch of IIT Bhubaneswar began in 2008. The civil branch is part of the School of Infrastructure. In 2011, the Institute of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011 was passed. According to this act, IIT Bhubaneswar is part of the eight New IITs established across India. 

The B.Tech Civil Engineering course was one of the first courses that were offered. Today IIT Bhubaneswar ranks at 17 by NIRF, showcasing the well-qualified professors and facilities it offers. There are forty-eight gender-neutral seats and ten women-only seats in the department. The branch also provides learning in management, humanities, communication skills, arts, general studies. The students thus go through rigorous intellectual and personality development.

CUSAT is a university that had colleges under it in the past. Now it only has colleges or schools to be exact. Which are under the main university campus. 

Following are the various schools affiliated with CUSAT University.

• SOE: It stands for School of Engineering and deals with UG engineering courses.
• Old SOE: It deals with Grad and Ph.D. courses. It also comprises various departments for MCA.
• SLS: It stands for School of Legal Studies and deals with the law courses.
• SMS: It stands for School of Management Studies and deals with business-related courses.
• Kunjali Marakkar School of Marine Engineering: It deals with marine engineering courses.

The above-mentioned schools constitute the main campus. This is not the entire CUSAT, there is another campus for the university. 

Lakeside Campus:

• The Lakeside campus is around 12 km from the main campus. It is set in Cochin city on the estuarine waterfront. 
• It consists of the School of Ocean Science and Technology, School of Industrial Fisheries, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Chemical Oceanography, Department of Marine Biology, Microbiology and Biochemistry, Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics, and Department of Physical Oceanography. 
• The School of Marine Sciences has a library that is regarded as one of the largest marine science libraries in Asia and a research vessel for coastal water studies.
• The school has academic interactions with other universities and research institutes in India and abroad.

Apart from this, there is also CUCEK in Kuttanad, also known as the Pulincunnoo campus. So, if you get selected into civil engineering, then you will be studying in SOE which is inside the main campus.

If you wish to work in the government sector, there are very few jobs in CSE but if you want to go for corporate work life, you should go with CSE.

Considering placements, if you opt for CS at NSUT, the average package at NSUT is around 14 LPA and the median package is around 8 LPA considering some international offers which increase the average package by a huge amount. In IIT Bhubaneshwar, people from Civil get jobs in both core and software companies. The packages range from 6 LPA to 39 LPA with an average somewhere around 11.4 LPA.

The campus life at IIT Bhubaneshwar is better as compared to that at NSUT. There are three fests, many science, and non-technical clubs, etc. There are E-classrooms in the campus with faculty to student ratio of around 15:1. The infrastructure, being newly built, is quite impressive with good classrooms and hostels.

The placement cell at IIT Dhanbad is known as the Career Development Center. It is truly efficient and dedicated through which the students get placements in top corporate sectors. Top recruiters include Microsoft, Deloitte, Amazon, Flipkart, etc. In the 2019 placement season, 594 students got placed through campus placements of IIT Dhanbad from a total of 781 students that participated. The civil engineering was the 2nd highest with a record placement of 51.35% with maximum CTC offered was INR 14.4 LPA.

IIT Bhubaneswar also offers a good Civil Engineering program. In 2019, 89% of students were placed from the Civil Engineering department. The average CTC offered was around 11.4 LPA.

One major thing is that Dhanbad is an underdeveloped city with not so much infrastructure, whereas Bhubaneswar being capital and has better connectivity and more MNCs visit IIT Bhubaneswar.

Both IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Dhanbad offer good Civil Engineering programs both in terms of academics and placements. But in IIT Dhanbad changing branch is easier as there is the availability of more seats.

Yes, IIT Bhubaneswar is worth it to pursue civil engineering. Although it is a new name among IITs, it’s doing quite well. According to NIRF Ranking 2019 IIT Bhubaneswar was ranked at 26 among the engineering colleges all over India. It’s a popular belief that there is not much placement opportunity available for civil engineering students in India. And most of the students from this starts to prepare for non-core placements from the very beginning of their courses. But this is not the case for IIT Bhubaneswar. Past placement records suggest that 70% of the civil engineering students got core placements. Placement record for 2019 in IIT Bhubaneswar shows a total of 89% students from civil engineering got placement offers. During placement, the average salary package offered to civil engineering students is 10 LPA. The highest salary package offered even went up to 39 LPA over the years.

Students of this IIT have opportunities to do their internships in R & D organizations and in many foreign Universities. For summer internship program, students of IIT Bhubaneswar visited organizations such as ABB Ltd, Amazon, Microsoft, Aditya Birla Group, Airbus Group, India HINDALCO Industry, AIIMS Bhubaneswar, Bharat Dynamics Ltd, NTPC, PNB, Metlife, Wipro, BSNL, Jaipur Metro, BHEL, Vizag Steel Plant (RINL), DRDO, Mahindra & Mahindra, Jindal Stainless Steel.

So, yes, civil engineering at IIT Bhubaneswar is worth it as it will provide you with good placement and internship opportunities.