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i got 616 GATE Score in mechanical . category: OBC NCL. what will be the best college and branch i can get? is IIT mandi better than NITs.


sudheer 9th Feb, 2019
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aditi mishra 21st Mar, 2019

Hello Sudheer,

Though the cutoff changes every year depending on many factors but according to previous years cutoff trends your chances are decent to get admission into a good college. The previous years cutoff (general) of some of the colleges where you might be eligible are listed below:

  • IIT Bombay- 510
  • IIT Roorkee- 53.54
  • IIT Guwahati- 642
  • NIT Calicut- closing score- 650
  • NIT Rourkela- closing score- 615
  • NIT Silchar- closing score- 506
  • NIT Patna- 536
  • NIT Durgapur- closing score- 521
  • NIT Agartala- closing score- 495

These are some of the colleges where you might be eligible. To know more about your chances check out

Https://engineering.careers360.com/gate-college-predictor


IIT Mandi is better than many but not all NITS, hence it depends which NIT you are comparing it too. If we go by NIRF rankings NIT- Trichy, NIT-Rourkela and NIT -warangal have better rankings than IIT-Mandi.


However, in general IIT- Mandi has a good trackrecord of student placement and LPA packages offered. Students have recieved offers from Amazon, Goldman Sachs, L&T  and ISRO. The average salary offered was 27 lakhs. You can read about it from this document available on their website:

 http://iitmandi.ac.in/pressreleases/pressrel/Press%20Release%20-%20IIT%20Mandi%20set%20for%20another%20year%20of%20Strong%20Placements%20in%202018-19.pdf


While NIT-trichy and NIT-Rourkela have a lot of recruiter on board with them and their students do bag good packages, NIT - Warangal loses out on the placement record and average salary offered despite a higher NIRF ranking. You can read about their placement record from their website on this document: https://www.nitw.ac.in/media/uploads/2018/06/18/taps-pg-programs-statistics.pdf


Hope this helps. For further queries please feel free to comment down below.

Good luck!

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