NIT Warangal: Why to Join It and Why to Avoid It?
One of the top NITs in India, NIT Warangal is the only NIT considered to be at par with the IITs. It is consistently ranked among the Top engineering colleges of India. National Institute of Technology, Warangal or NIT-W was the first among the regional engineering colleges in India and has carved its niche as an Institute of National Importance.
- Most popular branch in NIT Warangal is Computer Science & Engineering.
- JEE Main 2013 cutoff rank for CSE at NITW was #1967.
- Ranked #4 in placements by the Dataquest-IDC-NASSCOM Survey on India’s Best T-Schools,
- NIT Warangal placement benefit passes off mostly to the CSE students.
The placement scenario for other departments is good too. In 2013, NIT Warangal bagged about 650 jobs with packages mostly between Rs 3.5 lakh per annum to Rs 65 lakh per annum. On an average, a CSE student got a job offer of Rs 9-10 lakh per annum while an ECE student got an offer of Rs 7-8 lakh per annum.
The top recruiters were Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Flipkart, Epic Systems, Directi, and Oracle. Core engineering firms included Dr. Reddy`s Labs, Hindustan Unilever, Schlumberger, Halliburton, and ITC Limited.
According to campus sources,
| Campus Placements in Year | Highest salary package offered to NIT Warangal students |
| 2013 | $135,000 (about Rs 84.6 lakh per annum) – by Facebook to CSE student K. Gopi Krishna – highest-ever offer made to a NITW student yet. Microsoft also extended 9 job offers of Rs 75 lakh per annum. |
| 2012 | Rs 60 lakh per annum by Microsoft |
| 2011 | Rs 45 lakh per annum by Facebook to a Computer Science student which was a record then – far more than the highest pay of Rs 20 lpa offered at NIT Warangal until then. |
- NIT Warangal is accredited by the United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) and the British Council allowing a large number of B. Tech pass-outs from here to pursue graduate studies in the US and the UK.
There are about 200 faculty members at NIT Warangal. The faculty-student ratio is 1:10.4. Notable faculty of NIT Warangal include the likes of Rao Remala who was the first Indian employee at Microsoft and V R Ferose, the Managing Director of SAP Labs, India who was also nominated by Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum in 2012.
Almost all the departments at NIT Warangal are engaged in research activities – including CSE, ECE, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, and Biotechnology. The institute has received more than six crore rupees as research fund in 2013. Besides, the tech school has four research centres known as:
- Centre for Urban Transport (CUTS),
- Centre for Advanced Materials,
- Centre for Automation and Instrumentation (CAI), and
- Centre for Sustainable and Alternate Energies (CSAE).
Known for very good hostels and mess facilities, campus life at NITW is exciting. Well-maintained buildings and best hostels in India like Ultra Mega and Megal Hostels are the USP of the institute. They are equipped with high Internet speed and wi-fi facility throughout the campus.Students find ample of time to engage in various clubs and societies. Most active clubs at NIT Warangal are Dance ‘n’ Dramatics and Music clubs that organize monthly Audi Nite and Music Night. Then, there is South India’s 2nd biggest tech fest ‘Techno Zion’ and cultural fest of NIT Warangal called ‘Spring Spree’ which sees participation of students across India.
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I’m currently studying in this college. My advice to juniors is do not choose this crap of a college if you are getting branches like Chem, Bio, Meta, Civil…. They are pretty f***ed up. Worst faculty. Majority of them and the admin are highly uncooperative. Most of the time the student council and the admin are at war. Well the worst part is the placements. Core placements in these branches are less than 40%. Including IT jobs it might go upto 50%. Most of the lab equipments are outdated and rusty. Usually many students feel discriminated between telugulites and non telugulites by the faculty. Guys my advice is if u r getting good branches in your native state colleges please go for it. Now the fee has also doubled i believe. So there is nothing good about this college being Institute Of National Importance.
Thanks for your valuable reaction 🙂
Sure thing!! 🙂
Is that descrimination (between telugulites and non telugites) leads to suffer in grades ….since I am from U.P. and getting warangal metallurgy..
Not always. Evaluated answer scripts are always made available for review by students.
Then how descrimination takes place….??
Please reply soon sir as I have to lock choices….
Most of the faculty are comfortable communicating in telugu than in english. So telugulites enjoy this comfort.
Hii..my bro has rank 5168. He is getting chemical engg in NIT-W in first counselling. Please help what to do..what is the scope in chemical engg for placements, Do IT companies discriminate chemical students when they offer placements in NIT-W ?? He actually filled chemical as 11th choice & in all above 10 choices he filled ECE< CS< EEE <IT in all 3 top nits- trichy , warangal & suratkal..but for these branches ranks cuttoff is under 2000. Now obviously he can't take anything other than chemical ..please please suggest
Chemical Engg placements are not good here. But since this is just the first round its very likely that he is going to get other top sought branches like mech or EEE(See previous years cut off ranks to get an idea). So wait for it. And companies will not differentiate. They only take those who r fit.
My suggestion is, he has a good rank, there is great chance that he may get a nicer branch in further rounds. All the best.
but in last year cut-offs , for all eee, mech, cs, it braches in these colleges the rank was under 2000-3000 . Ab now, there is only 10% chance that he could get in any of those & just because he filled nit jaipur & all others- cs, elec etc below he doesn’t even have that option to go in any below nits . I am really afraid for chemical engg i think only this is the one that he would get. Can u describe what is the chance of internal sliding if he tries to get good cgpa in 1st year. Please suggest something and can you give your email id or fb id so that he will contact you if he has any doubts about this college. Please !!
Well every fresher thinks about branch sliding. Well go through this rule for official info on it. (Page no. 13)
http://www.nitw.ac.in/nitw/Scheme&Syllabus-2012/B.Tech%20Rules%20and%20Regulations.pdf
The applicants may be allowed a change of branch, strictly in the order of merit, subject to the limitation
that the present strength of students in any Branch at most can be increased by THREE.
a) Subject to the condition that the student strength in a particular branch from which transfer is made,
does not fall below 85% of the existing strength.
b) For any reason, if a student is denied change of branch, no other student with a lesser CGPA should
be permitted for change into that Branch.
Usually the cutoff CGPA for a branch change to CS, Mech, ECE,EEE at the end of Second semester is 9.0 and above.(For CS and ECE it goes as high as 9.5 varies with competition). Branch change for , Chem, Civil will be around 8.5 and above.(This is also subject to variation. Some of my friends made it with cgpa less than 8.5 😀 ) This is highly competitive.
Lock your choices by giving preference to branch, not just college.
For now have patience and watch the further rounds before making decision to join here. AIR 5000 is pretty good rank.
hi @reactor i want to know how is the placement of mca there ?? my sis got mca in warangal ans she is confused whether to take it or go for surathkal …
please give some suggestions regarding this
what were the highest placements in EEE and mech???
@askiitians: please verify the claims of someone about some institute before posting. Because NITW faculty always equally promoted every student in academics , research n other activities. “Discrimination” is very strong word and I never found it in my B.Tech (2014 Batch) life in NITW, though I am from Madhya Pradesh.
I think everywhere in India faculty have privilege to talk to students in their mother tongue. Telugu students are generally poor in English and Hindi, are from rural background, this privilege boost their confidence, but in no way it discriminated other non Telugu speaking students.. In Fact when I was in MANIT , faculty used to talk in Hindi to a student who is not comfortable in English. N in north India campus life and language is Hindi… Though it is not same with NITW, here in between students also, generally English is spoken, NITW truly reflects multi culture institute.
About placements, only in 2013-14 placements were low as all industries have a watch on 2014 general assembly elections, so all over India placements were not good, though thanks to NITW’s reputation in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, that industries of Andhra and Karnataka always visit it for placements.
Also comparison should drawn between institutes in India about infrastructure.
Student’s council of NITW is democratic body(very few students’ council in “Institute of national importance” are elected by students through vote), that’s why it always try to get best facilities from institute, this lead to some stand off between administration and council, but overall result is very beneficial for students.
NITW always matches International standard in education and campus life. Unfortunately not all students are willing to utilise them (NIT’s & IIT’s), though MHRD spent lot public money in these institutes and students sleep in their hostel criticising education system.
Hiiiii,, my rank is 1157 which nit should i go for structure. is nitw good for ce
Hello,I have secured 189 marks in Jee-main 2015 and my intermediate score is 985.Can I get CSE in Nit Warangal?
what can you suggest for ece branch nitw for placements and as a good branch
hi my rank is 5048 gen and iam confused about taking eee in warangal or to go for nit allahabad my own state plzz help
I have got 5048 CRL and want EEE or EC at warangal, presently i have got NIT Allahabad with EC being home state as well . Is it possiblity to alott EEE or EC at waragal at this rank. and how’s that for me being from Uttar Pradesh
i got civil in nit warangal and eee in jntu kakinada. which is best?
@reactor mujhe cse iit ropar se mil rhi hai mai kya nit warangal se bhi cse mil rhi hai mai kya karu iit ropar se cse lu ya warangal se.
Hello. Can anyone help with MBA course. About the placements and the faculty?
brother i got air 22,170 can u suggest best nit college or iiit or any? my most preference is cse
plse repy,.,.,.,
So I m getting nit Warangal machenical…Nd bits pilani machenical ….which one should I take ….any suggestions….
Hi i am interested in additive manufacturing department for my post graduation. I need to know how the scope will be. As additive manufacturing is grwoing now. How are the placements for this department. Can you share me past placement records for this departement.
Little irrelevant, but worth reading.
Currently, I am studying Advanced Communication Systems in NIT Warangal, so I am qualified enough to answer this question.
First of all, since you are talking about Communication, you must be from ECE background. There are two more streams in NIT Warangal for ECE grads, VLSI and Electronics Instrumentation(EI). VLSI should be your first choice. If You don’t get VLSI, opt for EI. I will give you the reasons in my discussion.
You may think EI is not core for ECE grads, but if you want to get jobs in core ECE, VLSI or EI are better choices than ACS. Let me talk about placement statistics for 2016–18 batch.
VLSI: 17 Internship+2 Placed. Out of 19
EI: 10 internship+ 4 Placed. Out of 14
ACS: 9 Internship+ 4 Placed. Out of 21. Remaining UNPLACED.
Students are interning in Intel, Dell, Analog Devices, Synaptics, Xilinx, Synopsys, etc.
Students have in placed in C-Dot, Intel, Sandisk, etc.
Coming to faculty: ACS faculty are really bad. They wont give good grades and as a result you may not be able to sit in different companies like Qualcomm, Analog, Mediatek. On the other hand, EI and VLSI students get excellent grades and almost all of them are eligible to sit for all companies. ACS faculty will screw you, disturb you, give you useless work to waste time. Barring a few, all faculties will demotivate you and try to ruin every bit of confidence you have. VLSI and EI faculty are much better in these respects.
Now, talking about the subject. ACS has no scope in market. So, companies that come will want you to have knowledge of VHDL and Verilog. These subjects are taught in both VLSI and EI, not in ACS. So, even after getting poor grades, you have to study other subjects for placements, if you are in ACS.
To conclude, if you are hell-bent on joining NIT Warangal, go for VLSI or EI.