SIT, Tumkur is one of the oldest and finest colleges in the state. until early 2000 its one of those colleges where very good CET rank holders used to join and was preferred after RV,BMSCE, PES,MSRIT and SJCE. Because of Bangalore’s exponential growth and company proximity many colleges opened up overnight and students without even proper researching started to join these new colleges. Please dont compare SIT/NIE to CMRIT or BMSIT or SJBIT. SIT is a 50+ year old institute and no one had even heard of these new colleges just a few years of back. Other colleges have an edge over SIT or NIE just because they are in Bangalore. When it comes to quality of education, lush green campus and good placement record these two colleges are far better.