Hey aspirant,

I believe you are referring to IIT Palakkad and want to know whether this college or NIT Surat is the better one, so here is some information on these two colleges.

SVNIT also known as NIT Surat was established in 1961 and is one of the top engineering colleges in India, ranked 54th by NIRF. It has a huge campus and good infrastructure as well. In terms of placement, 500+ students from B.Tech, M.Tech, and M.Sc. programs were placed in different sectors of the industry. The highest salary package was Rs 37.5 lakhs per annum bagged by the CSE students, with an average package of Rs 5-7 lakh. Some of the top recruiters who participated in the 2020 placement drive include- HSBC, L&T, Ola, MU Sigma, Samsung, JP Morgan, Capgemini etc. Apart from them, several exciting fests are organized in the campus, among which MindBend, the annual tech fest is the biggest in Gujarat.

IIT Palakkad is one of the newly established, emerging institutes in India which was launched recently in 2015. Within a short time, they have been able to start most B.Tech courses along with M.Sc, M.Tech, PhD courses at two temporary campuses. The permanent, 500 acre, picturesque campus in the backdrop of Western Ghats, but that may take sometime to open. Placement has been really good, with highest package of 21 lakhs and average package of 7-9 lakhs offered to students by companies like GE, OYO, TCS, Cloudera, Vmware, HSBC etc.

It's a tough call to make. IIT Palakkad is an 'IIT', so it will have more value than that of an NIT and it is also one of the emerging institutes in the country, mentored by the No. 1 engineering institute in India, IIT Madras. So it can be an exciting thing to choose IIT Palakkad.

However if you want to go for the more established NIT Surat and want to have a great college life and preference to stay in North India, then you can go for NIT Surat.

Hope it helps. All the best!