Which is better: production engineering at the NIT Agartala or mechanical at the NIT Nagaland?

NIT Nagaland has a NIRF 2020 rank of 67 and NIT Agartala has a rank of 52 in the engineering category. NIT Nagaland is an autonomous institution recognized by AICTE and UGC whereas NIT Agartala is a government institute that is to be a deemed university.

Admission-

To be eligible for admission, students are expected to have passed 10+2 with a minimum of 75% along with their JEE Main score.

• For NIT Agartala, for programs like B.Tech, the total fees are in the range of Rs. 1 Lakh to Rs. 6 lakhs.

• At NIT Nagaland, the total fees for programs like B.Tech lie in the range of Rs. 1 Lakh to Rs. 4 lakhs respectively.

JEE Main cutoff 2019 -

• NIT Agartala - For the PE branch it was 28827 and 33637 as the opening and closing rank respectively for the General category. For reserved categories, the opening and closing ranks were 2763 and 11083 respectively.

• NIT Nagaland - For the ME branch it was 27146 and 29838 as the opening and closing rank respectively for General category students from other states. For reserved categories, the opening and closing ranks were 1896 and 7826 respectively for students from other states.

Placement -

• For NIT Agartala, the median CTC was Rs. 5.5 LPA and saw 188 students being placed overall. The highest offered CTC was from Works Applications.

• For NIT Nagaland, Allstate, Power Grid, Lakshaya, Vedanta, L&T, Toppers, Mphasis, were the top recruiters.

• The major recruiters for NIT Agartala were L&T Infotech, Vedanta, Future Group, Havells, Axis Bank, ABB Limited, Samsung.

For the year 2019, the placement details for the two institutes are as follows.

• NIT Nagaland conducted the 2019 placement drive wherein 22 students were recruited from various departments. The highest CTC worth Rs. 10.5 LPA was offered by Allstate.

• At NIT Agartala, the total no. of offers to PE students was 11.

Which is the better option that needs to be assessed by reviewing the above facts and your perception of the college brand along with the ROI which is on average 93% for NIT Agartala and 112% for NIT Nagaland.