MANDI: With a highest package of over Rs 60 lakhs, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi has received 249 offers from 88 companies during the Phase 1 placements registering an increase of 50% in the number of job offers as compared with last year.
This also includes the 70 pre-placement offers compared to 56 IIT Mandi had got last year, which is an increase 25%.
According to the IIT Mandi spokesperson, IIT Mandi has also received 19 international offers this year from companies, including Rakuten, Accenture Japan, Denso, and Nohara Holdings, Inc so far.
More than 140 national and international companies hired in multiple sectors and several job profiles are registered with IIT Mandi for phase 1 of placement which will continue till the end of December.
Top recruiters are Uber, Amazon, Walmart, Oracle, Indeed, Flipkart, Microsoft, Tata 1mg, Trilogy, Cashfree, Adobe, Paytm, Rakuten, Zomato, Sprinklr, Schrodinger, Samsung Research Institute Bangalore, ODE, ICICI bank, HDFC, EXL Service, Evalueserve, Merilytics, Jaguar Land Rover, Maruti Suzuki, Mercedes Benz, Addverb, Hitachi, L&T, HoneyWell, Western Digital, AMD, Ceremorphic, LTI, GE, etc. and PSUs including C DOT, and HPCL, among others.
An increment of around 18% in average CTC and 24% in a median of 26 lakhs has been observed in comparison to the last year, with the highest domestic package of over 60 lakhs till now.
Job offers in profiles such as Software Development Engineer, Data Scientist, Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Data and Business Consultant, Marketing, Management, GET (Graduate Engineer Trainee), and several other domains and sectors have already been made.
Dr. Tushar Jain, Advisor, Career & Placement Cell, IIT Mandi, said, “This year, we are witnessing a successful placement drive.
"The number of offers and the number of companies registered with the CnP cell is more than the previous years", he added.
The students from the newly-opened UG programs in 2019, namely Data Science, Engineering Physics, and Bioengineering, are participating in the recruitment drive for 2022-23, and their placements are very promising.”
Dr Jain attributed the increase particularly to the introduction of six-month internship and career session and guidance to the students given by the Career and placement cell.
"In addition, it is due to academic curriculum and ongoing projects with professors.”
