IIT Kharagpur bags 200-plus pre-placement offers in top MNCs

The placement season will begin on December 1, later this year

IIT Kharagpur students have bagged over 200 pre-placement offers for the first time in top multi-national corporations, including some based abroad.

Companies like Goldman Sachs, Samsung, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Adobe Systems and Wipro have offered more than ten PPOs each, the institute said in a release on Wednesday.

The placement season will begin on December 1, later this year.

Offers have been pouring for the final year students as an outcome of internships which the students went for during the summer recess.

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"This is an encouraging sign for us that companies recognise our students' hard work and motivation during the internship," said Debasis Deb, Professor in-charge of the Career Development Centre at IIT Kharagpur.

According to him, several factors like versatility, wide choices in course curriculum available through flexible academic programmes, dedicated and experienced faculty strength and a strong presence of the alumni across most of recruiting organisations resulted in the huge number of PPOs.

IIT Kharagpur has also received over 200 internship offers for the pre-final year students for the summer of 2018.

The institute authorities expect to cross the tallies of past years in internship offers for the academic year 2017-18, the release said.

1000 students get jobs in 10 days at IIT-Kgp

A record number of over 1000 IIT Kharagpur students have bagged lucrative IIT Jobs in just ten days of the first phase of placement season, officials said today. 

The total number of offers extended has crossed 1100 across engineering, management and human resources departments ever since placements began on December 1. 

“We took 20 days to hit this milestone last year. We have been able to reach this target early primarily because of the increase in the number of students being hired by organisations that have been visiting our campus over the years,” Atal Ashutosh Agarwal, Vice-President, Technology Students’ Gymkhana of the IIT, said. 

He said it is a testament to the fact that IIT-Kgp students are currently regarded as the most employable across the country. 

Prof Sudhirkumar Barai, chairman of the career development centre at the IIT, said jobs in core engineering has been the trend this year. 

“Core, not crore is the mantra for placements for this year,” he said. 

With ten more days to go for the first phase of campus placements, organisations like Larsen & Toubro, Deloitte, Capgemini, Blackrock, Evalueserve and Coal India are scheduled to visit the campus. 

An official of Business process outsourcing firm Sitel, who made 11 offers, said, “Visiting on Day 8, we were able to find exceptional students for both our profiles, this happens to be the best graduating talent pool we have come across”. 

Recently an IIT-Kgp student had disclosed directly before the media that he bagged an annual package of Rs 2 crore from Google after finishing internship.

The IITs have already decided not to reveal any pay package figures from this placement season following complaints of peer and parental pressure on students.