Mechanical Engineering

Both NIT-Trichy and NIT-Warangal are among the top three NITs are among the best institutes in India. But NIT Trichy has been consistently ranking better than NIT Warangal for some years now. According to the MHRD rankings of engineering colleges, NIT-Trichy stands at 11th position while NIT-Warangal stands much below at 34th rank. Among the NITs NIT Trichy stands first. Coming to the mechanical department, NIT-Trichy showcased better placement statistics than NIT-Warangal. NIT Trichy had 94.8 percent placement in 2016 and 98.5 percent in 2017. While NIT-Warangal had 91.11 percent placement in 2016. In terms of the course outline and faculty, both colleges are almost equal. But recently NIT-Trichy had started the system of '"Flexible Curriculum" which allows teachers and students to discuss and decide on things like methods of evaluation and dates of exams and course outline as such. However, this system has just started and will take some time to get better. NIT-Trichy has many clubs like PSI Racing, Designers consortium and 3D aero modeling in which students can gain a lot of practical knowledge by working on real projects. I would suggest joining NIT-Trichy as the institution strives hard to improve quality of students and make them ready for the industry.

Automobile engineering is a branch of Mechanical engineering, where you'll deal mostly with automobile, whereas in Mechanical engineering, you'll deal with all machines and its design and then many more basics. But literally both are same, no big difference. Syllabus of Automobile engineering overlaps with Mechanical engineering between 80 to 90%. Compulsory courses on engineering drawing, workshop, instrumentation, Thermodynamics, Strength of material, theory of machines, heat transfer, Refrigeration etc are common in both Mechanical and Automobile engineering but additional like automotive chassis, engine, dynamics, body engineering suspension, transmission, automotive electronics & electrical are separate
Automobile engineering is a niche branch thus it has less opportunities in comparison to Mechanical engineering graduates. Mechanical engineers are employed in Automobile industry but Automobile engineers may not be preferred in core mechanical jobs.