One of my friends studied at XISS, I can share some details about this institution. XISS has still not been able to make its name among the top colleges of India despite being such an old institute.

• Being an average college, it has average placements and in fact, every student doesn't get placed.
• You will also find politics and discrimination in XISS among students during the placements.
• It doesn't provide required exposure to MBA students which is very important for their careers.
• The campus is very small and there are no hostels available inside the campus.
• XISS is located in Ranchi which is a disadvantage as the city is not developed and very few facilities available when compared to bigger cities like Delhi, Bangalore, etc.
• XISS has a reservation system and 50% of the seats are reserved for Christian SC/ST students. Their fees are also lesser than general category students.
• The students from backward caste comprise almost 70% of the total students in this college.

It will be better to avoid XISS and take admission in other B-schools like Army Institute of Management, Kolkata which might provide better facilities and placement opportunities to its students. Do thorough research before making a decision.

Assuming that you opted for IT in UIET Chandigarh, let us move fast forward to three years and look at how your career might shape out:

• You can easily get placed in companies like Deloitte, ZS, or any other consultancy firm with salary packages of around INR 6 to 7 LPA if your communication skills are good.
• If your communication skills are not good enough, you can expect to be placed in IT companies or any start-ups based in Chandigarh city itself. You will be offered salary packages of around INR 3 to 4 LPA.
• However, since big IT companies like Paytm, Amazon, Flipkart, etc., do not visit the campus during the placement drives, there are fewer chances of you getting placed in a good IT company.
• Now, assuming that you opt for ECE at NIT UK, you will probably have to sit for the same IT companies and accept the offers.
• This is because there are very few ECE core sector jobs in India and it is pretty difficult to find one.

I will suggest you opt for ECE at NIT UK solely because of the NIT tag that you will be getting. Being a NITian, myself I can say that it will be of benefit to you in finding a job or even if you want to go for higher studies like MBA or MS.

Both PGEC and NIT Sikkim are very good colleges. But choosing NIT Sikkim will be a better choice as it is a national level college and is much better than PGEC. Being a student of NIT Sikkim, I can assure you that it will be a good choice.

• NIT Sikkim is one of the leading NITs among all other NITs and has immense popularity around the nation.
• The faculty members are very talented and well experienced.
• They also have a diverse student population.
• All the students have cleared the national level entrance exam to get admission to this college so they are very good with academics too.
• The placements of this college are very good as most of the top companies visit the campus for interviews.
• The only drawback of NIT Sikkim is that it doesn't have a permanent campus yet. But this problem won't have any negative impact on your studies as the faculty and academics of this college are excellent.

Hence, NIT Sikkim is a very good college to pursue engineering courses and its academic and placement scenario are much better than any other state-level or private college.

CUSAT and JNTU Hyderabad, both the colleges are good. I have few friends at both, so I can give you some insight into them.

• JNTU Hyderabad is a reputed institute. According to the placement report which is given by the college companies like TCS, Wipro, cognizant, etc visits the campus.
• CUSAT is a better choice than JNTU Hyderabad. As in CUSAT, you would get a lot of exposure. The facilities are up to the mark even though it is not much of a luxurious college.
• You will get a proper atmosphere to learn and as far as the study is concerned you will get adequate material here for study purposes. The library facilities are good and it is quite large. You will also get adequate facilities for games and sports.
• The campus placement of CUSAT also holds a better record than that of JNTU Hyderabad. For better placement, you have to work hard and pass the exams. As the syllabus and whole curriculum are a bit tougher than that of JNTU Hyderabad. Also, the ranking of CUSAT is higher than that of JNTU Hyderabad.

So, it’s better to go for CUSAT.