Mechatronics Engineering

Manipal Institute of Technology is among the top private colleges in India, and once had a great reputation for excellence in academics, faculty and placements.
Although if core company placements are what you are looking for then it is not the right place for you, as most numbers of offers are made by corporate IT companies while the number of core company placements in the college is only around 10%. So, most of the students end up taking IT corporate jobs, giving up packages of nothing more than 4 lacs.
The average placement packages offered for mechanical engineering branch in Manipal Institute of Technology is around 5 lacs and the highest placement package being on the batch of 2017 being around 8 lacs.
The total placement percentage for the whole was around 90% and hence the college ensures you of a job even though you fail to perform well in academics. Hence, one can consider taking admission in this college but you should consider this as your last option to resort at.
Good luck!

Mechatronics is a specialization in Mechanical Engineering which is used to create and maintain robotic structures using the principles from Mechanical Engineering. Few colleges offer this course as a degree course in B.Tech and few as a post graduate course in M.Tech. I would suggest doing B.tech in ME and then specializing in Mechatronics as Mechanical provides you ample of opportunities if you ever change you mind for Mechatronics. The job opportunities in this sector are few but it is fine as the number of Mechatronics engineers is also less as compared to other branches. You can find job opportunities in Electronics, Automobile, Manufacturing, mining, transport, defense etc. You may also find opportunities in Army, the Navy and the Air force and organisations like the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Some of the profiles you can work for are -Industrial Robots (Operation and Maintenance) and Automation related areas.Avionics and Aeronautics.
Industrial systems and Process control like on PLCs and pneumatic control.
This is just some of the ideas I can get now, there can be more opportunities out there.

Mechatronics is a multi-faceted field. It makes you a jack of many trades. For example, I have learned about motors, control systems, software development for making things autonomous, sensors and how to use them, electronic components and embedded hardware, kinematics, and dynamics of systems and CAD. So with this sort of knowledge, you fill roles where cross-platform expertise is demanded. A person who has some knowledge of other branches of engineering is always highly respected. You could specialise in control systems, and yet show how these can be integrated into the software side. Or you could propose how the control system can be implemented as hardware using digital electronics.
One of the biggest applications of mechatronics is robotics. Robotics could be a mix of hardware and software, like manipulator robotics, where the robot performs a certain task using hardware/ manipulators, or it could be highly software-oriented, like machine learning, where the purpose is to analyse data to make decisions.