30% increase at IIT-M placement

“The future belongs to those who believe

in the beauty of their dreams”.

 

Job offers for students of IIT-M during first phase of placements for 2018-2019 has gone up by nearly 30 percent compared to last year. The number includes pre-placements (1-3 December 2018) 133 companies arrived at the campus and extended 680 offers to the students. When combined with 136 PPOs, the total number of offers stands at 816 at the end of Day three. 131 international job offers have also been extended. As may as 20 startups have made 78 offers at the end of Day 3.

During the academic year 2017-2018, 16 companies made 526 offers (643 including PPOs) at the end of third day of phase 1 of campus placement. As compared to 2017-2018, which saw 307 post-graduate students placed by the end of the third day, the current placement session has recorded 374 post- graduate students getting placed until December 3.

According to IIT-m analytics, consulting, finance sectors accounted for 33 percent of job offers, while core and R&D sectors account for 37 percent. FMCG sector accounted for less than 1 percent of jobs, a trend in keeping with the last year. A lot more core engineering profiles are scheduled between December 4 and 8, 2018.

“The goal is to achieve the strongest placement results and

highest levels of student and employer satisfaction”.

M.Nasreen