IITs strive to beat placement winter blues
IITs) at Delhi, Bombay (Mumbai), Kanpur, Madras (Chennai), Kharagpur, Roorkee, Guwahati and Varanasi (BHU), the struggle to place students in a challenging environment hasn't gotten any easier.
The schools are going all out to get more recruiters to campuses. The placement season ends in May-June for the IITs. Two of the top schools — IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi — have provided official placement data to ET. At IIT Bombay, the top choice for those who clear the entrance exam process, 33% of the 1,973 students participating in placements were yet to get jobs as of April 4. The older IITs are typically regarded by candidates as the most desirable. Apart from the eight older ones, India has 15 other IITs set up since 2008. IT-BHU became IIT-BHU (Varanasi) in 2012 by an act of Parliament.
At IIT Delhi, about 1,083 of the 1,814 who signed up with the Office of Career Services (OCS) had got placed as of April 5, while around 40% are yet to get jobs. For undergraduate programmes (BTech+dual degree) the numbers are better: 81% of the 903 who participated have got jobs, the institute told ET.
Low Packages Get Thumbs Down
Those in the master's/PhD programmes aren't doing as well, lowering the overall hiring percentage.
According to IIT Bombay's placement and internship report for 2022-23, around 82%, 1,516 of 1,845 students who had actively participated in placements, secured jobs at the end of the season last year. At IIT Delhi, the overall placement
