I want to do engineering and for that I am confused whether to join the IIIT Allahabad or IIIT Delhi. Please tell me which one is better in terms of faculty members available and placements offered to the engineering students so that it helps me in deciding whether to join IIIT Allahabad or IIIT Delhi?

I find both Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad and Indian Institute of Information Technology, Delhi are good institutes.

IIIT Allahabad

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad was founded in 1999 and is a public university in Allahabad, in Uttar Pradesh state.

It is one of the 19 Indian Institutes of Information Technology listed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

Ranking
It is a matter of honour for the IIIT-A family as India Today, India's leading magazine has ranked IIIT Allahabad among the Top 10 Engineering Institutes of India.

In 2015, it was ranked in 49th place among Indian engineering colleges in a survey done jointly by Edu, an Indian company, and Rand Corporation, a non-profit American think-tank.

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi is an autonomous university in Delhi, India. It is a research-oriented university with strong focus on research at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Programmes in the Institute

B. Tech (Information Technology)
B. Tech (Electronic & Communication)
M. Tech (Information Technology)
M. Tech (Electronics Engineering)
Integrated M. Tech (Robotics)
Integrated M. Tech (Stem Cell Engineering)
MBA (Information Technology)
Ph.D. (Information Technology & Management)

IIIT Delhi

Rank
IIIT-Delhi was ranked 56th among all kind of Indian universities in 2016 by National Institutional Ranking Framework, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

It was ranked 7th among government engineering colleges in a 2015 Dataquest survey of technical schools, 9th in India among engineering colleges in a 2014 survey by Aglasem, 35th in a survey of engineering colleges conducted by Silicon India in 2014 and 44th among Indian engineering colleges in a 2015 survey by EDU-RAND.

It was given an 'A' grade by the Indian government's National Assessment and Accreditation Council in May 2015. It was rated AAAA by Careers 360 (Magazine) in India 2015.

Academics
An undergraduate B. Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), Computer Science & Applied Mathematics (CSAM) and Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE)

A postgraduate M. Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) with specialisation in Information Security, Data Engineering and Mobile Computing along with an M. Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE) with specialisation in VLSI & Embedded Systems, Signal Processing And Communication System and an M. Tech in Computational Biology(CB)

Ph. D in Computer Science, Electronics and Communication and Computational Biology (CB)

Departments
The institute has the following academic departments:

Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering
Department of Mathematics
Department of Humanities Social Sciences
Department of Sciences
Department of Computational Biology

Departments for Bachelor Degree
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE)
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (CSAM)