Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) is one of the renowned private universities located in Gandhinagar. PDPU operates through four schools namely the School of petroleum engineering, the School of petroleum technology, the School of Technology, and the School of liberal studies. It offers a BTech in Electrical Engineering. The admission is through JEE Mains.

The LNMIIT Institute at Jaipur, Rajasthan was established with a single branch of communication and computer engineering. Now it has been converted into a deemed university in collaboration with the Government of Rajasthan. The admission to the BTech Electronics and Communication Engineering is through JEE Mains.

Course Fee:

• PDPU charges 9.73 lakhs for BTech Electrical Engineering.

• LNMIIT offers a BTech program with a course fee of 14 lakhs.

Faculty:

PDPU:

• The teaching quality is great at PDPU and the course curriculum is updated.

• Students get to learn about the recent advances in the field of technology from frequent industrial visits which is one of the advantages.

LNMIIT:

• The faculty and staff at LNMIIT are also good and possess deep knowledge of their respective fields.

• Latest teaching methods for teaching and respective lab sessions are also provided to students.

Placement:

PDPU:

• Top companies like Honeywell, UOP, L&T technology services, torrent Power, Jubilant life sciences, Byju's, torrent gas, Shell, Adani power, Coromandel international, and many more companies are some of the top recruiters to participate in PDPU’s placement.

• About 65% of the students got placed from the college with the highest salary INR 10 lacs per annum.

LNMIIT:

• LNMIIT has a very active training and placement cell that operates around the clock for finding internships and job opportunities for the students.

• In the 2020 placement session, 92% placement record was recorded with the highest salary package ranging around INR 58.9 lakh per annum and median salary package around INR 10 lacs per annum.

Infrastructure:

PDPU:

• Campus facilities at PDPU are GREAT. All labs are well equipped with Wi-Fi and well organized and updated.

• Indoor sports like chess and carrom are available for students interested in them.

LNMIIT:

• The infrastructure at LNMIIT is very good. Labs, lecture halls, and rooms are well-furnished with advanced technologies and are air-conditioned.

• All types of sports facilities are present on campus with their corresponding grounds and courts and equipment.

The details discussed above are going to assist you in making a wise decision for choosing your college.

Nirma University has been graded ‘A’ by NAAC. It has also ranked 13th for MBA by Outlook India in 2020. Apart from that, it has ranked 10th among the top private engineering colleges by Times in 2019 and 15th by India Today in 2019. LNMIIT is UGC approved and has ranked 36th among the best private engineering colleges by The Week in 2020.

Both these colleges are reputed and have several advantages of their own. However, when you are about to choose either one of them, there are some factors you should be taking into consideration.

Admission:

• Aspiring students who want to take admission at Nirma University for CSE have to qualify for JEE Main and GUJCET. The course fee remains around 7 Lakh.
• Aspiring students who are aiming at taking admission at LNMIIT, have to qualify for JEE Main and DASA UG. The total fee is 12 Lakh.

Placement:

Nirma University:

• Top recruiters who offer placements to Nirma University students include Dabur, Daikun, Essar, Ingram, Infosys, IBM, Saint Gobain, Sun Pharma, Samsung, Morgan Stanley, Reliance, and many more.
• More than 90% of students get placed every year from this institution.
• The highest and average salary package remains to be 14 LPA and 3 LPA.

LNMIIT:

• More than 94% of LNMIIT students get placed every year by several companies.
• The highest and the average packages that are usually offered remain to be 36 LPA and 10 LPA.
• Top recruiters are Adobe, Jugnoo, Amazon, Microsoft, OYO, Sapient, Goldman Sachs, Bosch, Adani, and more.

Infrastructure and Faculty: Both the institutions are well known for the quality of the education they provide their students with. Most of the faculty members are well experienced and helpful. As far as infrastructure is concerned, both the colleges offer more or less the same facilities to the students starting from spacious classrooms, hostel accommodations, lab facilities, and many more.

These are some of the essential factors that will help you further to make the decision in an easier way.

Nirma University is a private university, recognized and approved by UGC, AIU, and has been accredited grade ‘A’ by NAAC. Admissions to the college are open through both offline and online modes. The college offers B.Tech in Chemical Engineering as a four-year full-time course at a fee of Rs7.24 Lakhs for the full period.

LNM Institute of Technology (LNMIIT) is a deemed university, has been recognized by UGC and approved by AICTE, ARIIA, and AISHE. It has been accredited ‘A’ grade by the NAAC. The college does not provide Electrical Engineering however it provides B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering as a four-year course at a fee of 12.36 lakhs.

Admission Procedure

Nirma University:

• The prerequisite for seeking admission to Chemical Engineering is scoring 55% and more in 10+2 examinations (PCM/B).
• Further, students are shortlisted on the basis of JEE Main or GUJCET scores.
• The course has a total of 60 seats available.

LNMIIT:

• The eligibility criteria for candidates for ECE is 60% marks in their 10+2 examinations.
• Candidates are further selected on the basis of their score in JEE Main.
• The college offers 150 seats for the course.

Infrastructure & Facilities

Nirma University:

• The college is built over a huge 115-acre campus.
• A well-equipped library is on-campus which houses over 1,20,000 books.
• The institute also provides separate hostels for boys and girls with adequate facilities.
• Other facilities such as laboratories, gym, cafeterias, medical facilities, Wi-Fi, air-conditioned classrooms and auditoriums are provided.

LNMIIT:

• The college is built over a massive 100-acre campus.
• The college library is home to a diverse collection of books and journals.
• The college provides in-campus hostels.
• Sporting facilities, laboratories for ECE, cafeterias, a gym, Wi-Fi facilities, recreation rooms, medical facilities students are provided by the institute.

Placements

• Nirma University:The course has a placement rate of 70%. Companies such as L&T, Reliance, and HUL come on-campus for placements. The package offered to students ranges between 2.5LPA and 7LPA.

• LNMIIT:The course has a placement rate of around 85%. Top recruiters include Amazon, Adobe, and Cisco. The lowest package offered is around 4LPA, while the average package is approximately 6.5LPA. The highest package offered to a student may go up to a whopping 13.5LPA.

Both colleges are good choices, however, LNMIIT specializes in engineering courses making it a notch above the other. The college scores higher than Nirma on nearly all parameters. Placements at LNMIIT are far superior as compared to the latter. However, Nirma provides a similar campus at a much lower fee making its return on investment similar to LNMIIT. Making a choice between the two would depend on one's financial preferences.

PES University is a private university situated in Bengaluru. The university comprises four campuses, offering various courses under different streams. The college is ranked 93rd by NIRF for its B.Tech courses.

LNM Institute of Technology (LNMIIT) is a deemed university situated in Jaipur. The college has been recognized by UGC and approved by AICTE. The college was ranked 37th for private engineering by India Today and 194th for Engineering by NIRF.

Admission Procedure-

PES: B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering is a four-year course at the college and the fees for the same are 13.21 Lakhs for the full period.

• Students seeking admission to CSE at PES must have scored 60% in their 10+2 examinations in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics.

• Eligible candidates are then selected on the basis of their scores in KCET (only for domicile students of Karnataka) or PESSAT, the common entrance examination of the college.

• The college offers 480 seats in this course.

LNMIIT: The college offers B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering as a four-year course at a fee of 12.36 lakhs.

• The eligibility criteria for candidates for CSE is 60% marks in their 10+2 examinations.

• Candidates are further selected on the basis of their score in JEE Main.

• The college offers 240 seats for the course.

Infrastructure & Facilities:

PES: The college is built over a large 25-acre campus.

• It is home to a handy library with a huge collection of e-journals, coursebooks, and e-books.

• The college has in-campus hostels for both boys and girls.

• The campus also has various sporting facilities such as cricket, football, and basketball.

• The college has a number of laboratories including ones dedicated to CSE.

• It also offers a number of other facilities such as cafeterias, a gym, medical facilities, and auditoriums.

LNMIIT: The college is built over a massive 100-acre campus.

• The college library is home to a diverse collection of books and journals.

• The college provides in-campus hostels.

• Sporting facilities, laboratories for CSE, cafeterias, a gym, Wi-Fi facilities, recreation rooms, medical facilities, and shuttle service for students is provided by the institute.

Placements:

PES: CSE has a magnificent placement rate of almost 90%.

• Companies such as Accenture, IBM, JP Morgan, and HP come for placements for CSE.

• The average package offered is 6.5 LPA, with the highest package going over 40 LPA.

LNMIIT:

• The course has a 90% placement rate with companies such as Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Samsung coming for placements.

• The average salary package for CSE was 12LPA, with the highest package going up to 55LPA.

Both colleges are identical on most fronts, however, LNMIIT would be a slightly better preference between the two. LNMIIT specializes in B.Tech courses and provides better infrastructure and facilities. At a lower fee, LNMIIT offers much better placements to its students.

LNMIIT ranked 194 for BTech by NIRF 2020. Students are offered scholarships of INR 35,000 per semester based on their merit i.e. the JEE Advanced rank. The top 20 rankers (upto 5000 rank) will be awarded with the scholarship.

JECRC Jaipur is ranked 23rd All over India in the Best University Survey. Students are provided with internship opportunities (100%). 81% of which was paid internship, stipend from INR 8000 to 24000 per month.

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 50-60% in their 10+2 qualifying exams.
• For MTech applicants 60% in BTech or BE is required.
• Selection will be based on the entrance exams.
• JEE Main and GATE ranks are mandatory for admission.
• Applicants opting for PhD will have to go through a written examination and interview.

Placements 

LNMIIT 

• 62 companies participated in the placement drive and made 517 offers.
• The top recruiting companies include Goldman Sachs, HSBC, American Express, Smartprix, OYO, etc.

JECRC

• They offer a median salary package of 2.5 LPA.
• The top recruiting companies include Adani Group, Asian Paints, Bosch Ltd, Dabur, Dainik Bhaskar, Deloitte, Essar, Godrej and Boyce.

NIT Manipur 

• 20 companies visited.
• 50 students were placed through the placement program in NIT Manipur. 
• The companies are Microsoft, Wipro, Accenture, Infosys, IBM, Capgemini, Adobe, HSBC, TCS, Zolacode, Lamzing Infosystem, Virtusa, etc.

Facilities 

LNMIIT - 

• They have a campus area of 100 acres.
• They also have a central library, hostels including AC, TV and wifi.
• Sports grounds, courts, ATM, social gathering clubs and gym are also provided.

JECRC Facilities - 

• They have a library, computer labs, Mess and a cafeteria.
• They have provided sports grounds and a gym for enthusiastic students.
• They also provide a medical facility and have a 24 hour ambulance.

NIT Manipur 

• They have 2 boys and 1 girls hostel.
• They have sports grounds and courts with healthcare facilities.
• The campus has a central library.

All the above mentioned colleges are equally good; it ultimately depends on the student’s preferences of location, affordability, environment and subject. LNMIIT has a better placement record than JECRC and NIT Manipur

The LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT) is a Deemed University approved by All India Council for Technical Education and accredited with Grade A by NAAC. In 2019, The Week has ranked LNMIIT #4th in North Zone among Non-government Technical Universities, #7th in India among Non-government Technical Universities, and #35th in India among Universities.IIITDM Jabalpur is approved by University Grants Commission, furthermore, the NIRF has ranked IIITDM #75th among top engineering colleges in India.

Eligibility:

LNMIIT

• The eligibility for B.Tech CSE at LNMIIT is 60% marks in 10+2 with an aggregate of 60%. The selection criteria depend on the JEE Main scores.
• For M.Tech CSE, the applicant should qualify GATE or LNMIIT based written score followed by an interview and passed B.E/B.Tech with a minimum of 60%.

IIITDM

• For B.Tech ME admission, the candidate should be JEE Main qualified as well as passed 10+2 with Mathematics and Physics as compulsory subjects.
• Admission for M.Tech ME is based on GATE scores and eligibility criteria of having B.Tech with minimum 60% marks or CPI/CGPA 6.0.
• For Ph.D. in ME, the selection criteria are GATE and the applicant should have Master’s (M.A, MSc, M.Tech, etc) with minimum 60% marks or CPI/CGPA 6.0

Tabulated below is a brief fact about the institutes:

Placements:

IIITDM Jabalpur

• The students graduating from 2020 batch has already has received around 177 job offers which include 149 full-time offer and 28 pre-placement offers with the highest pay package of Rs 23 lakhs.
• Reliance Jio, Amazon, Microsoft, Yantriks, LensBricks, Samsung R&D, and 1mg is the giant corporate recruiters of the institute.

LNMIIT

• The highest package offered in 2020 was 58.99 lakhs/annum
• Students, in the past, have Internships and Placements at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, etc.
• College offers Semester-Long Internship, Summer Internship, opportunities, LUSIP (LNMIIT Undergraduate Summer Internship Program)

Both LNMIIT and IIITDM Jabalpur offers many scholarships to the students. Scholarships offered by LNMIIT are merit-based Scholarship, Merit-Cum-Means Scholarship, and BPL Scholarship. On the other hand, IIITDM provides scholarships such as MCM to the students whose family income is less than 2,50,000 INR.

LMN Institute of Information & Technology and BIT Mesra are both premiere engineering institutes. The choice between two would lead to a clear cut decision for LNMIIT. 

It can be taken on the basis of factors like:

• Placement

The placements are quite decent as it attracts the top companies across the country offering a good amount of packages. The career development opportunities are in quite a large number leading to a good growth in terms of career graph ahead. 

The data can be looked upon as follows:

• Faculty

There are qualified faculty members that make education more realistic and research oriented. They provide the best experience in their field, making it even more remarkable.

• Coding Culture

BIT Mesra has a weaker coding culture in their campus unlike LMN IIT. The Cultural committee, Sports committee and literary club are important elements. 

• Infrastructural Facility

A lot of hardships have been encountered on the part of accommodation in BIT Mesra, making it a deterrent altogether. Infrastructure is a major factor when you choose a college. 

LMNIIT on the other hand has provided good residential facilities with full access to important equipment without major administrative situations. 

The other important factor to be kept in mind is that BIT Mesra & Ranchi are two different colleges and the notion that Mesra campus is good so Jaipur is also good is clearly not acceptable. A clear point of view stands in favour of LNMIIT in purview of all the mentioned details.

LNMIIT

• LNMIIT was founded in 2002 which means it is a bit old and has a stronger alumni base.

• It is a university and a joint venture of Govt. Of Rajasthan and LNM Foundation.

• The total fees for B.Tech Computer Science is around INR 6.5 lakhs.

• The overall average salary was around INR 10.43 lakhs while the highest was around INR 36 lakhs per annum for previous years.

• Top companies to recruit the students were Amazon, Samsung, OYO, IBM, and many more.

• The cut off for the first round for B.Tech CSE lies around 115K.

IIIT Bhubaneswar

• IIIT Bhubaneswar was founded a little later in the year 2005.

• It is a Government University.

• The total fees for B.Tech CS are INR 8.31 lakhs.

• The highest package offered was in the range of INR 8-10 lakhs per annum, while the average CTC was around INR 5 lakhs per annum as per the year 2019.

• Top companies to visit the campus were Dell, TCS, Infosys, IBM, Mindtree to name a few.

• The cut off for first-round for admissions in B.Tech CSE ranges from 7140-15315.

Given the above stated facts, LNMIIT is better for CS. However, the final decision rests upon you.