Which is better: Amrita University or SRM University (placement wise)?

Hello, I’m an Amrita student graduating this year. I have a cousin who studies in SRM Kattankulathur campus. Through out this answer I l try staying neutral and not giving a biased answer. I will list down Pro’s and con’s of the two.

Amrita University(Coimbatore campus)

Pros:

1. The university has been accredited the top grade(A+ or AAA) for a good number of period. This ranking definitely helps in campus placements and higher studies to an extent.
2. The number of companies coming for recruitment is fairly higher than other colleges in the state. It would easily be among top 10 or 5 in terms of placement scenario.
3. The curriculum is also fairly good that if you are from CBSE background you can catch up with the syllabus easily.
4. The campus is one of the most beautiful campus in the nation, well maintained, you get all the amenities within the campus. The architecture is simply amazing.
5. The lab facilities are very very good for a private university. I have not seen any IIT/NIT laboratory, but when comparing to other state affiliated colleges , ours stand apart.
6. The faculty – student ratio is well maintained. The strength of the entire engineering batch in a year would be only around 1200, whereas the other private universities have upto 5000-8000.
7. If you are really keen and interested in developing your engineering skillset, there are lots of people who can help you in the college. There are lots of small/mini project opportunities you can get within the course itself.
8. There is only one college fest – ANOKHA. That is 98% student run fest, the faculties try their best to stay out. If you get to be a part of any committee within this fest, trust me you will learn a lot about many things during those 3-4 months of span.
9. The hostels are within the campus and easily its one of the well maintained hostels(i.e, its clean, the repair works doesn’t take long).
10. There are lots of opportunities for sports and non academic stuffs.
11. The campus is highly safe for girl resident or any student I could say.
12. Most of the faculties are amazing.

Cons

1. You can’t really get out of the campus as you wish. There is a out pass system, you need to take pass to go out, I mean for anything.
2. You have to wear uniforms.( I personally feel its good wearing uniforms for many reasons but majority of the folks don’t like, so I’m putting up here in con)
3. You really can’t access the labs like 24*7 as they do in IIT/NIT. To access the labs post academic hours you need to have permissions from HOD.
4. The food is very bad. At-least I could say for the money we pay its not the worth.
5. There is no cultural festival.

SRM University – Kattankulathur

Pros

1. The campus is very big, its really huge. Its like a mini township.
2. The classrooms are mostly air conditioned, to suit the hot weather of Chennai.
3. There are many tech teams like force, SRM humanoid etc, they have their own sponsors. They win a lot of competition, its really very tough to get into these teams.
4. The placements are fairly good too, just like Amrita many companies visit here.
5. I have heard the food is very good i.e, the variety and quality of the foods are way better than amrita.
6. The hostel facilities are good. You can choose if you need AC/Non-AC rooms, bath/without bath attached rooms etc.
7. They have two grand college fests namely Aarush and Milan(Tech and cultural fest). The exposure is great compared to other college fests.
8. The faculties are equally good here.
9. The freedom is more here in SRM than Amrita, in terms of going out of campus or uniforms etc.

Cons

1. The campus is over populated. There are so many people in the campus, each batch has 3-4 times of our campus.
2. The weather is very hot, summers are nightmare here.

I have tried to stay neutral answering the question despite being an amritian. So as far as I’m concerned both the universities are very very good compared to 95% of the other institutes in the country. Whatever you choose, strive hard for excellence. I believe any student with real interest can easily excel in any of these colleges. Good luck.