Thapar University Patiala Answered Questions

Thapar University expected cut off is obviously less than IITs and NITs but not that much less. It would safely be upto GATE score of 450 to 500 and above. There is a separate entrance exam if all seats are not filled through GATE.
You should apply for that.
Best wishes

The cutoff varies subject to every year's JEE Mains difficulty level. You can check for the previous year cutoffs on the website www.thapar.edu.
For an idea, the cutoff may go as high as 180 for Computer Engineering and as low as 80 for Chemical and other less popular branches.

To know the projected cut off for Thapar University, you can check the previous year cutoffs for BE courses on the website www.thapar.edu - Admissions -BE - Cut off for third round of counselling.
The cutoff for the next year admissions is subject to vary with the difficulty level of the JEE Mains exam.
For an idea, the outside Punjab cutoff for CSE can lie in the range 150-190 marks.

Not considering the price factors, I would suggest for Thapar University, because of the quality of education, decent placements and the overall personality development. Moreover, Thapar University has an agreement with Trinity College of Dublin, Ireland for a student exchange programme after 2nd year, which is one of the finest colleges in the world.

You should go for DAIICT, GANDHINAGAR because the placement opportunities of this institute are excellent. According to last year's placement survey, 3 students got placed with the highest salary of 40 lakhs in AMAZON INDIA from this institute.

VIT is better followed by Manipal and then Thapar. Since this college has the best of placement, infrastructure, education, opportunities and exposure to the real world. Though VIT and Manipal are almost the same in all the above terms and these two are better than Thapar.

Thapar University is among the semi-private universities all over India and is known to provide for an average placement package of around 7-8 lacs while the highest placement package of around 35 lacs.
For placement information, you can also log into the website link given below:
http://www.thapar.edu/index.php/students/placements/introduction
The companies that make rounds for the placement drive in the college are:
Amazon, Adobe, Brahmos which are known to provide for a package of around 24 lacs.
Also, there are many companies showing up for foreign placements offering high packages and multiple perks.
The number of placements for the mechanical branch in IT corporate companies is around 35% where those who fail to get into core mechanical companies, readily take up jobs in the consulting and IT companies that show up.
If you want to increase your prospects of getting better jobs, you should go for an MS/M.Tech in the same branch.
Hope you do well.
Good luck and cheers.