Hi,

Both CSE and ECE are most preferred branches of students, parents and recruiters.  Placement wise, ECE is a little better than CSE as it has more offers in the public sector . Also ECE is considered to be somewhat of a "evergreen" branch, consisting of many career opportunities. CSE also has very good placements and the average salary is higher than ECE.

In India, CSE is one of the most demanding fields. Candidates from top colleges, like Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) get paid exorbitantly. It involves jobs in software development, web designing, software testing and much more.

Programming in today’s world has been stretched even further into other fields like Mechanical and Electronics and hence, its demands have been increasing. The advent of robotics and Artificial Intelligence too has given a boost to the demand and scope of placements in CSE.

ECE students usually get jobs in companies/organizations having operations in software (IT industries), hardware i.e. Electronics (Electronics industries), Communications (Telecom Industries) as well as Electrical; this is the biggest benefit which is not available to students of other streams.

Hope this helps

Wish you luck