IIIT - Hyderebad (CSE) vs IIT Kanpur (CS)

[KDroid]

Lets list out points in favour of our opinions!!

According to me, IIIT - H is better because...

• Faculty is quite impressive. Its quite comparable to that of IITs.
  
• Hyderabad, as a city and IT Hub is always an advantage.
  
• Only institute in India to offer research opportunities for under-graduates.
  
• One of the best course curriculum in India for Computer Science and Engineering.
  
• Freedom to pursue your interest.
  
• As pointed out by abhijangda, IIIT offers only 2 branches, CSE & ECE. It specialises in both of the streams.
  

[KDroid]

Here are couple of interesting comparisons between IIIT Hyderabad & IIT.

IIIT vs IIT

IIIT vs IIT, which is better?

[alienware]

IIT's (older 5, others like IIT-R and IIT-G I can't comment on) are better than III-H any day of the week.
Placement should be the last thing in mind while selecting a UG course if you are into research.

Leave placement aside even in research work each IIT is far ahead of IIIT-H. No. of citations recieved by papers published by IIT(K) is higher than any Indian institute except IIT.

Just by including research in course doesn't means that high and useful research is done, most of research papers published in IIIT not practically implemented.

CS is not about working for Google and just coding, one has to have strong science and mathematics background. For a good CS course a good maths department is essential, which IITs have IIIT doesn't.

[KDroid]

Look, I am not much into research. I am kind of branch-centric.

CSE interests me a lot. CS is based more on software and theory. CSE focuses more on hardware and even a bit of electrical engineering but is still software based. That's exactly what interests me.

You may be correct.. But, on what basis are you telling that IIIT-H hasn't got a good maths department & their research papers aren't implemented?

There ought to be some strong reasons behind IIIT-H's CSE being considered better than that of IITs.

[alienware]

This link might give you some idea about quality of IIT YouTube - ‪IIT - Indian Institute of Technology - World's Best Educational Institutes & Pride Of India‬‏

After 7.00 min mark something about CS is being said.
As far as I know no one has said something like this about IIIT-H.

Granted IIIT H has imported lot of foreign faculty but IITs have given brilliant scholars to the world over. Check EECS dept. of any World Class University, IITs are present everywhere.
Tell me how many from IIIT H have got admit in MIT,Stanford,Berkeley,etc last year.

Although I agree IIIT H can be called as 2nd best in CS after Older 5 IITs.

Also you said "There ought to be some strong reasons behind IIIT-H's CSE being considered better than that of IITs".
Can you give us some data or links except comments from some radom forums where someone has proved this quote by you.

Nevertheless, first target getting <800 in JEE and <2000 in AIEEE so that u can have both options open.

[KDroid]

Thanx for your views...

I am trying to contact Mrs. Pervin Malhotra through email & would share here views over here if I get to contact her...

[Amrut SCIWIZ]

Hey do anybody know the mode of admissions in IIIT hyderabad !

If yes then what will be its cutoff ?

Please tell me that !

[KDroid]

AIEEE is the mode of admission...

AFAIK, you need a rank within 2500 for CSE...

[nims11]

IIIT -H UG Admissions - 2011 Fisrt Round Seat Allotment | IIIT Hyderabad

[gopi_vbboy]

its an insult to IIT if you compare with IIIT

[RizEon]

IIT kanpur...no doubts about that...
3 things:
1. The brand value- u go 2 college for a gud salary, being in IIT guarantees a better salary than IIIT in 70% cases...sumthng called blue blood, the HR know u r there cuz u performed better than 5 lakh others(sum of whom will join hyderabad)

2. Half the things u learn wud b frm ur hostel life...the entreprenuer skills n inspiration ul draw frm the Top AIR guy 2 rooms is unmatched

3. If u made it through, uve earned it....stuff like that is not 2 let go


i have AIR 2882 in JEE and 3173 in AIEEE, 336 marks in BITSAT(that guarantees almost any branch at pilani) but i left it all and I've just filled the admission fee for IIT Kanpur, material sciences and metallurgy..

NOTE: I know i dont have a very good rank, but I have a couple dozen IITian frnz including a handful of india toppers(all my classmates qualified) and i can tell what it means to crack JEE..

[gagan007]

congrats RizEon. 2882 is very good rank in JEE, all the best for your future. I hope you make it big in your life.

And you decision to join IIT Kanpur MS&M is correct.

[Scientia Wiz]

I will recommend that if one wants to make his or her career in the sector of IT then IIIT Hyderabad would be the best choice and if they want to make career in electronics, communication and other sciences then the IIT Kanpur or the other IIT's would be the well and good !

Do anybody know the mode of admission in IIIT Hyderabad and the cutoff mark of it then please let me know !

[RizEon]

congrats RizEon. 2882 is very good rank in JEE, all the best for your future. I hope you make it big in your life.

And you decision to join IIT Kanpur MS&M is correct.

thanks buddy
actually metallurgy wasnt my 1st choice...
But then m not vry sure about continuing in technical field...so for other stuff (eg MBA) ,college matters bigtime, so i chose kanpur.....nothings better than going for a core branch at an elite college...

@scietia wiz
check out ccb.nic.in for last few years trends...ul find sumthng useful...
Admissions thru aieee.

[Scientia Wiz]

congratulations RizEon !
Where have you done the coaching of JEE ?

[RizEon]

congratulations RizEon !
Where have you done the coaching of JEE ?

Thanks
took classroom coaching at Resonance, kota.

[krishnaiiit]

I think placement of iiit hyderabad is also comparable to iit. This cse average is 9.85 lakhs, with highest placement of 1,30,000 dollars in google mountain view.Also, every year iiit hyderabad is only team who is able to make to world final of ACM-ICPC consistently.
for placement detail:
International Institute of Information Technology

[lugia]

I think before deciding which one is better,you must be sure of what u are comparing it for.
Someone really interested in CS would go for either of of the two things research,from which the discussion started, or knowledge.
As far as research is concerned,IITs send many students abroad and also within the country for summer internship and projects,something u cannot say aboout IIIT-H.Also the number of students getting scholarships for higher studies in IITs is much higher.Agreed It includes students from other branches too,but the number of students pursuing CS in each IITs barely crosses 100.

And as far as knowledge goes, the professors in IITs are much more experienced,though they could be similarly qualified as in IIIT, as IITs are much older then IIIT.

Even ignoring these aspects the quality of students going to IITs is much more better than in IIIT.And if u still say curriculum of IIIT is better and so is its CS,do you want to say its the books makes the course better than the teacher and the students studying it?

[krishnaiiit]

Many students from iiit also go for research in foreign universities like CMU, yale, oxford etc in summer or do internship in companies like google, amazon,microsoft etc.

Now regarding professor , iiit has more than 50 professor only for CSE done PHD from various prestigious universities specialized in various sub branches of CSE.And it does not mean that if university is young professor does not have experience. Many of them has been teaching even before the opening of IIIT.

In IIIT also all cse students are below 2000 rank in AIEEE . Most of them have decent rank in IIT too.So there is not much difference. Any how IIIT students qualify for ACM ICPC every year , and even in major coding sites IIIT is at top, ahead of IITs.

Regarding Curriculum , Curriculum does not means book, but courses offered. No of different courses offered in IIIT is much higher and diverse than those of IIT. Even the methodology of teaching courses is much more research oriented and better.

[KDroid]

@krishna: very well said...

Okay, let me make it clear... I am far more interested in CSE than CS...

Now tell me which one is better!

[nims11]

^^ arent CS and CSE same in terms of B.tech/BE?

[KDroid]

NO

Google the differences!! I even mentioned the difference in one of my previous post!

[nims11]

NO

Google the differences!! I even mentioned the difference in one of my previous post!

WTF! i have been telling i got CS at mesra everyone where i have actually got CSE.

[KDroid]

haha!!

[lugia]

if the cs branch of IIIT hyderabad closes on 2500,CS of IITs closes under hundred,see the following link,all the (X)010 are CS's pening closing ranking,Joint Entrance Examination - 2011 so there is vast difference in the level of students.And since all the tech companies knows these differences,u decide who gets better projects
And courses offered in IIIT-H are similar in both the institutes.
As far as curriculam is concerned,IITs update them more frequently tha any other institutes in India.
Maybe the salary part doesn't concern you,but the companies know this and hire the best talents,and you know where they get them.

[KDroid]

FYI, IIIT Hyderabad does not offer CS branch. It offers CSE & ECE only!

Now compare any of the IIT's CSE course to IIIT Hyderabad!

[krishnaiiit]

tech companies do not recruit on the basis of there jee rank, but on the basis of subject knowledge earned in 4 years. As IIIT H top in every coding contests and even in research fields , so they have better knowledge in cse than those of iit. This fact is know to all tech companies . This year iiit h cse avg placement in cse is 9.85 lakhs. with highest placement of 1,30,000 dollars in google mountain view. second highest placement is of 1,15,000 dollaars in facebook.Other major recruiter are google india,microsoft,yahoo,ibm,amazon,direct i,oracle,nvidia etc. So,placement statistics is also better than iit.

Course is more updated and research oriented in iiit . Curriculum can be checked on site of the institutes.

[ico]

I guess this thread has run its course. Opinions vary but the Indian mentality doesn't.

Choose and go for what you feel is best for you.