Which is better: the College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) or the VJTI, Mumbai for computer science engineering?

College of Engineering (COEP) Pune is a well-known name for its provisions of higher education, even at CMU and Berkeley. COEP Pune saw 90% placements for its CSE batch in 2020. VJTI CSE on the other hand got all of its CSE students placed in 2018, which is the latest data available.

The table below highlights both institutes and their CSE programs:

Given below is an overview of the programs and institutes:

Admission Requirements

• COEP: Admissions are done on the basis of marks received in 10+2 and the score of MHT CET/GATE exam. Students need 55% marks in High School.

• VJTI: Admissions in CSE requires students to have 50% marks in 10+2 and graduation with the score of GATE and MHT CET.

Infrastructure

• VJTI has labs; sports facilities in NCC and Gymkhana clubs and hostels and a library.
• COEP Pune has more than 25 clubs; Bioinformatics lab, Data warehousing lab, Multimedia, and Communication Lab, and Natural Language Processing lab; and there's a fully furnished hostel as well.

Placement Data

COEP Pune

• The major recruiters at the college for the CSE program were Microsoft, D. E. Shaw, and Goldman Sachs.
• Generally, 80% of the students get placed each year.
• The highest salary offered in 2020 was INR 32 LPA and 80% of students got internships and placements with TCS, Wipro, Capgemini, etc.
• It saw a total participation of 225 companies and 571 students were placed.

VJTI

• The institute saw 99% placements with 80% of MTech placements for its CSE students.
• The highest payment was around 6-7 LPA in 2019 and the main recruiters were Morgan and Stanley, Medianet, Rakuten, and Infosys.

The CSE department of COEP Pune has more than 20 permanent faculty members; 8 guest faculty members and 1 professor emeritus in Prof AA Sawant. VJTI, on the other hand, has 18 faculty members in its CSE department. Selection can be done based on facts mentioned.