I believe you should take pursue Electrical at IIEST Shibpur. IIEST is one of the Oldest Technical Institutes with excellent infrastructure, faculty and research facilities. As far as Electrical Engineering is concerned, most of the Top Companies, especially in Core like Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Infosys, Cognizant, CESC, Tata Power, Vedanta, Samsung, Qualcomm and several other Recruiters visit the campus. Besides this IIEST has an excellent history of students give GATE and GRE and moving abroad or to higher technical institutes like Top IITs and IISc Bangalore for Masters or Doctoral Degree. This tells you about the rich culture and peer environment in the institute.
Dear aspirant,
As you know both of the institutes are one of the most well known and recognised Institute of West Bengal. Now if you considered mechanical engineering from NIT Durgapur last year approximately 75% students were replaced with an average package of 8 LPA, which is undoubtedly one of the best in term of Mechanical engineering. Highest package offered was of 32 LPA. Top recruiters based on numbers are mostly product-based. Core companies like L&T, Vedanta Steel, JSW Steel, Sterling Wilson, Reliance Naval, Diamlers, Tata Motors, Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki, Bajaj, Hero, Reliance Industries (manufacturing sector), etc. visit the campus and offers a number of jobs. In case of infrastructure NIT Durgapur is quite backdated. If you compare it with other NIT it's not upto the mark. The infrastructure of the classrooms needs renovation in the old academic block from time to time. Though the new academic block offers modern auditorium shaped classrooms.
Now now if you consider IIEST, Shibpur Faculty wise, electrical is among the best department. In term of placement in electrical engineering it's one of the best. Comparing with Mechanical of NIT Durgapur it would be better of electrical engineering. In term of infrastructure it's comparable with NIT. But fees structure is less here than that of any NIT.
Now considering all the factors you need to choose where you want to take admission. Both of these are one of the best in its own way. Hope it would be helpful.
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