Hello Tanmaya

You can get various answers of this question but you can have my suggestion too.

ECE and EEE. Mainly there are three reasons for doing engineering and I would be outlining those three cases.

JOB : In this case ECE can be a much better option than EEE. An ECE graduate is welcomed more heartily at the door of the huge IT industry. You get much more exposure to coding being in ECE. Many subjects like basic programming , data structures and algorithms, operating system , computer organisation and architecture are common in the CSE, IT and ECE branches. Many IT companies allow only students with CSE, IT, and ECE degrees to sit in their interviews. Talking about core sector companies , they are quite less in number. However still there are companies like intel which give more preference to ECE graduates. Considering the public sector companies, the ratio of number of vacancies to number of students appearing is less for ECE branch making it a bit difficult for the ECE students in GATE or IES.However considering a summary of overall situation, getting a job for ECE student is easier than for EEE student .

RESEARCH : ECE syllabus and EEE syllabus are about 80%-90% similar to each other. So the research fields have almost same scope for both in the electronics sector. The difference comes when a ECE student has the chances of doing research in the computing field like parallel computing, embedded system technology and these are modern fields of research where most of present day researches are being carried. Therefore again ECE student has better chances.

GRADUATION DEGREE : If someone’s aim while doing engineering is just to get a graduation degree and then pursue his/her career in some other field like management/ civil services or anything else then EEE seems to be a better option. A ECE student has to study much more than a student of EEE branch (forgive me if I am biased being ECE student) and gets less time for preparation of CAT or Civil Services Examination. Even the Syllabus of Civil Services Exam has Electrical Engineering as a optional subject which has topics like power electronics, power systems, energy conversion which are not taught in ECE but are taught in EEE. Therefore in this case EEE seems to be a better option.