I have a budget of around $750 and I expect to be able to code in it. I honestly have not much idea what the ideal requirement of a laptop for a college student should be, which is why I am asking here to get an estimate of the specs I should be considering while choosing one. I would advice against naming any specific laptop as I have no guarantee of its availability in my region.
I bought a 13" AMD Lenovo Yoga for about $750 last year to get through my senior year, and it’s legit one of the best college laptops I’ve ever had. The AMD APU is powerful enough to run most moderate games, I can play minecraft and space engineers fine. It ran Inventor and Creo just fine when I needed to do CAD work for classes. And the folding 2n1 touchscreen tablet was actually a game changer for digital notes. Battwry easily lasts 6 hours in light use and maybe 2 doing CAD. I’d buy it again in a heartbeat.
Just make sure you get a model with a minimum of 16gb RAM and a 1TB SSD. Do not buy an Intel laptop, their mobile chips suck bad these days.