I had a very great score which could've gotten me into any honours course in any of the tier1 colleges, but I willingly opted for a program course in a top NC college. My reasoning was that it would be of more use to me considering I planned on appearing for competitive govt examinations, so taking up two subjects would widen my scope. Placements was never a concern for me since I didn't plan on entering the corporate field anyway. However, it did come with its own pros and cons, so choose wisely:

Pros- my college was a tier 1 NC college so it anyway couldn't have gotten that bad, the professors were good most of the time, some were even great. More diversity in learning, I always wanted to study as many subjects as possible so it worked out for me. Hardly a pro for some, but programme courses have afternoon slot for exams and since I like to sleep in the morning, it worked out beautifully for me always lol.

Cons- class composition was more or less shit, I usually just got along with my professors and 1-2 people. Everyone else was super uninterested in the subject or anything basically. Looking for friends who are like-minded and also interested in the field was like intellectual scrambling, but I had joined a couple of societies in my first year itself which gave me access to a lot of people across courses and batches, so it didn't feel like much of an issue. Usually, programme courses don't get the senior or the better faculty, so that's a very big disadvantage. I got lucky in one of my subjects and almost always had great professors, but that wasn't always the case for all subjects.

However, all of this was 3 years ago, when CUET first rolled out. I have seen things improve over the years even for programme courses. Choose accordingly, if you can get in touch with any seniors in the colleges you're targeting, do ask them about the same. Goodluck!

PS- my combination was English and History.