Hello,

It is difficult to tell if 130 marks are enough to get seat in NIT, Surathkal because it depends on cut off and cut off changes every year depending on number of candidates appeared, difficulty of exam and number of seats available. Using JEE Main Rank Predictor tool your rank is expected to be in between 15934 - 18084. Considering 2019 round 7 cut off you have chances of getting seat in Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering and MME in NIT, Surathkal under open category as you have not mentioned your category we assumed it to be general category. So yes, you may have chances of getting seat in NIT, Surathkal with such marks but as said cut off changes every year, it may increase or decrease.

Hi there!

Information Technology is one of the youngest departments of NITK Surathkal. Having said that, it's doing a pretty good job in training its students. The strength of the IT Department is the course structure. The courses are well structured and me being one of the undergraduate student from the Department, I found it very relevant when I started off in the industry. There might be some of the courses in your program which might not be completely useful in the current industry expectations, but it does gives you a fair idea on how the things work really. Don't listen to people who say that - People who don't get CS, go to IT. There have been instances where IT has outnumbered the CS department in various aspects not limited to the highest job offers, research papers getting published etc.

The instructors are both good and bad at times. Most of the senior faculty teach well with the exception of one of two. Mostly, you will be expected to be a self taught student with not everything spoon-fed. But that really helps you a lot in finding out things when you go for a Master’s degree.

On a flip side, lately, the obsession is about producing more and more research papers with minimal or no value given to the content of the papers. Every team in group projects are PUSHed to publish a paper. That really shouldn't be the case. Emphasis should be on how much the student has learned by doing the project. I have also observed that most of the project evaluation happens based on the look and feel and not bother about the back end logic of the project. This really shouldn't be the case where a couple of fancy HTML pages would fetch you a top grade. Exam structure is very practical experience oriented. That's one of the good things about the Department. There are very few theoretical knowledge testing questions in the exams. So be ready for applying the concepts that you have learned in the classroom.

As for the location, it's located on the west side of the campus with classrooms that come with absolutely breathtaking views of the Arabian sea, making it one of very few classroom setup in the country with such a great sea-view. Since it's the youngest department, it has a very good infrastructure compared to other departments. It's very close to the main gate of NITK and has access to all amazing food joints that one can go to, after classes.

Dr. Ananthanarayana V.S was the previous head of the Department. A lot of good changes happened during his term being the HOD. He's a very simple, amazing person yet so knowledgeable and can be easily approached. He knows when to loose cool and when to stay calm. I and my other fellow students liked the way he administered. Other faculties like Dr. Sowmya Kamath, Dr. Geetha. V, Mr. Biju. R. Mohan and others are very knowledgeable in their field of interest. Taking up projects under them can be a great way to learn. A couple of them, like the well known Mr. Gaurav Prasad, did not quite do justice to their position and power.

All in all, the Department of Information Technology at NIT-K Surathkal is a great one when it comes to the course structure, associated labs and projects. What you make out of the opportunity really depends on you. The faculty members are really helpful and with the exception of one or two, they really want you to learn at the end of the day. Also, you need to know that for some illogical reasons, very few of the companies that come for the on-campus placements do not allow IT students or allow only the folks with a higher CGPA cut-off than that of CS folks. These are very few and there are also instances where certain big well known companies have hired only IT students and nobody else. It really depends on the circumstances on that particular placement year. To keep short, if you select the Information Technology department at NITK Surathkal, you wouldn't regret.

Thank You.

Hi Shubi,

The previous year cutoff for CSE branch at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal was 3561 for home state student and 2156 for other state student.

As per the cutoffs mentioned above you will not get CSE in NIT Surathkal.

Yes, you may get some lower cutoff branches like Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Food Processing Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology Engineering at lower cutoff NITs like NIT Mizoram, NIT Arunachal Pradesh etc.

You may get admission in state level colleges or private colleges in CSE branch also.

Refer here for more info - https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/nits-cutoff-for-b-tech-computer-science-and-engineering

To know your other best admission possibilities of Institutes & branches in JOSSA & State counseling as per your percentile, You can use JEE Main College Predictor tool given below

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

Feel free to ask doubts in the Comment Section.

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!

Hi,

I will give you an idea of last year closing ranks of NIT surathkal and you can guess percentile accordingly. For general student, for computer branch closing rank was 2156 while for metallurgical and mining branch it was 27,212. If you have home state quota and general student, closing rank was 3561 for computer science and 38,716 for mining branch. Closing rank also depends on the branch as you can see.

Thank you.

Dear Candidate,

As per last year's data, the closing rank for OBC-NCL candidates at NIT Suratkhkal for Electronics & Communication Engg was 4623. You may use our college Predictor tool to know more about the colleges you will get based on your score. This takes into consideration a number of factors before predicting the colleges. Click this link to know more about the same.

Link :- https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

Hope this helps. Thank You.

Dear Aspirant,

NIT Surathkal ranks 3rd in placement by NASSCOM and also ranks 2nd by NIRF since last two years.It ranks 13th in the list of top engineering colleges in India.It provides a much needed skills that is hands on experience which helps the students of ECE to work on circuits and machines.NIT Surathkal offers many B.Tech course out of which ECE is one in which 92 seats are available.Placement of ECE branch in NIT surathkal is very good.Companies such as Lupn,Mahindra and mahindra,Samsung,TATA,Siemens,Microsoft,Mercedes benz,Toyota,Wipro etc visit the campus every year.

For ECE the minimum salary offered was Rs 3.3 lakhs per annum.The average salary was Rs 8.19 lakhs per annum and the highest salary was Rs 16 Lakhs per annum.All these figures suggest that NIT Suratkhal has good placement record.

whereas,ECE branch in NIT Rourkela is very good nowadays it is almost second choice after CSE.The placement record of the branch is very goodThe top companies which recruit students from ECE branch are qualcomm,tata,sap labs,microsoft ,oyo,scheidner etc.Almost all the students gets job and 70% students get internship.

So both the NIT's ECE branch is good with excellent teaching staff and placement.Now it depends on your interest in which city and area you are interested in.

Thank you

Hey Shourya

I am going to give you some details about both these options on the basis of the student's reviews regarding these colleges.

As you may know NSUT has been ranked 76 for Engineering by NIRF 2020. The campus is huge with all sorts of facilities including medical, campus wifi and sports. Some students have complained that some of the campus labs are lacking in some ways however most labs are well equipped. The faculty is good but the course curriculum needs to be updated. Placements are goods and around 98% of the students get placed with highest package received by CS department (around 60 lpa) whereas the average salary offered is 3 lpa in companies like  Amazon, Facebook, Google.

As far as NIT Surathkal is concerned it has been ranked 4 for Engineering by Times2020 and rank 13 by NIRF 2020. Almost 100% students get placed specially from CSE. Highest salary offreed is 55 lpa  whereas lowest salary offered is 3 lpa in companies like  Google India, Amazon a, Sprinklr Microsoft,  L&T, etc.  The infrastructure is great with a beach view from the college. The campus is huge  with  well equipped labs. The faculty is top class and the course curriculum is such that it  makes students industry-ready.

Hello,

There are total no. Of 256 companies who visited NIT surathkal for campus recruitments. 870 students were placed out of which 610 were B.tech students. According to previous year list, In ECE 85 students were placed out of 94. And they got placed with an average salary of 14LPA and the highest package was 39 LPA.

For more information you can check the link provided below:-

https://www.careers360.com/university/national-institute-of-technology-karnataka-surathkal/courses

Hello,

Placement at NIT Surathkal has been pretty good. Placement for this year is going on.

Last year the highest package offered was around 55 LPA and the average package offered was around  13.3 LPA with almost 100% of students placed.

Dear aspirant,

Hope you are doing well. As per your query BITS Hyderabad will be a much better choice than NIT Surathkal if you want to pursue Civil engineering. The NIRF rank speaks for itself. BITS scored 27 in all india whereas NIT scored 33. Moreover the campusing of BITS is much better than NIT. The average package was also very decent for the former last year. Though both are very renowned institutions of India. According to the ranking you should go for BITS. please click on the link below for more information and updates. Hope you find this helpful. Thank you.

https://www.careers360.com/university/national-institute-of-technology-karnataka-surathkal

https://www.careers360.com/colleges/bits-pilani-hyderabad-campus-hyderabad/amp#referrer=https://www.google.com