In this day and age and with the pace world is changing with technology, one branch that will be of immense relevance in the future is Computer Science and Engineering. In 2019, when the young IITs which are now 11 years old shouldn't be skipped just because you may want to have some other branch at the older IITs. 

Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at IIT Gandhinagar is a wonderful course that provides the best of the faculty with the latest curriculum. The fact that IIT Gandhinagar took 8 years to start its computer science course which many institutes start from its inception is the fact that it did extreme due diligence in faculty recruitment and crafting programs to train the students in the best possible way. 

Additionally, it is the placements that are at the top of the mind for a lot of students as well as their placements. When it comes to campus jobs, undoubtedly CSE is the champ among all branches of engineering. The who's and who of the world such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. all hire for software roles. Top companies within India such as the Paytm, Flipkart also pull students for the software roles preferring CSE engineers. Not just that, these companies pay more than 20 lacs per annum at least in India, to about multiple lacs of dollars for abroad locations (these are the crore-plus packages that you read about in the newspapers). IIT Gandhinagar has had students who have bagged offers in Google, Nutanix to name just a few and these are some of the highest paying companies across all the IITs. Well, if you have a branch that is so future ready and an IIT that offers the best of it, the choice should be very clear.