Campus Placements 2011-2012
The 2011-12 Placement Season started on 1st December 2011 and went on till the 23rd. It resumed in the even semester in January and ended on 29th March 2012. Following is a summarized report with analysis.
Note : All figures are in Rupees (Lakhs Per Annum). These values are purely mathematical averages and are intended to analyze trends in the placement scenario. It is inadvisable to pick out individual data and try to infer conclusions on one’s placement. This report was done with data obtained from the placement team. We acknowledge their cooperation in compiling it for the purpose of this article. Notwithstanding, in the case of any discrepancy with the statistics below, we encourage the readers’ cooperation in correcting them.
General Statistics :
- Out of 1220 people registered for placements, 823 have been placed
- Additionally, 24 pre-placement offers were accepted bringing the total percentage of people placed to 69.4%
- 53 people had two offers, while 5 people had 3 offers made to them
- 248 companies participated in the on-campus placement process and a total of 905 offers were made
Day 1 Companies :
McKinsey & Co, BCG, ITC, Transocean, HUL, Google India, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Shell, Deutsche Bank, Sony Corporation, IBM Research, PocketGems
Day 2 Companies :
Eaton, Amazon, Credit Suisse, Intel, Microsoft, Nomura, Capital One, Schlumberger, American Express, Directi, InMobi, Hyundai
Average and Highest Salaries :
The department-wise average and highest salaries are shown below. The overall average and highest salaries stand at 8.98 LPA and 68.5 LPA respectively.
| Branch | Salary | B.Tech | DD | M.Sc | M.Tech | MA | MBA | MS |
| Aerospace Engg. | Highest | 28 | 18 | 9.89 | 7.25 | |||
| Average | 7.68 | 7.65 | 6.36 | 5.88 | ||||
| Applied Mechanics | Highest | 7 | 7 | |||||
| Average | 6.14 | 5.33 | ||||||
| Biotechnology | Highest | 8.59 | 13 | 7 | ||||
| Average | 6.63 | 7.77 | 5.34 | |||||
| Chemical Engg. | Highest | 28 | 28 | 17.48 | 6 | |||
| Average | 9.35 | 13.27 | 9.58 | 6 | ||||
| Chemistry | Highest | 7 | ||||||
| Average | 4.72 | |||||||
| Civil Engineering | Highest | 17.5 | 18 | 7.12 | 7 | |||
| Average | 6.59 | 7.25 | 4.8 | 4.3 | ||||
| Comp Science and Engg. | Highest | 68.5 | 68.5 | 33 | 62.5 | |||
| Average | 24.67 | 18.8 | 12.22 | 14.4 | ||||
| Electrical Engg. | Highest | 17.5 | 28 | 18.1 | 22.5 | |||
| Average | 8.9 | 10.92 | 8.6 | 8.97 | ||||
| Engineering Design | Highest | 13 | 8 | |||||
| Average | 7.24 | 6.55 | ||||||
| Engineering Physics | Highest | 33 | ||||||
| Average | 12.3 | |||||||
| Naval Architecture | Highest | 8.6 | 28 | 18 | 4.5 | |||
| Average | 6.28 | 8.67 | 5.99 | 4.14 | ||||
| Humanities | Highest | 3 | ||||||
| Average | 3 | |||||||
| Physics | Highest | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||||
| Average | 5.48 | 5.37 | 7 | |||||
| Management Studies | Highest | 10 | 8.18 | |||||
| Average | 8 | 8.18 | ||||||
| Mathematics | Highest | 8.25 | 7 | |||||
| Average | 4.95 | 5.8 | ||||||
| Mechanical Engg. | Highest | 25 | 17 | 8.12 | 22.5 | |||
| Average | 8.71 | 8.34 | 6 | 7.71 | ||||
| Met. and Materials Engg. | Highest | 17.5 | 12.81 | 7 | 22.5 | |||
| Average | 7.61 | 8.68 | 5.97 | 10.7 | ||||
| Institute | Highest | 68.5 | 68.5 | 8.25 | 33 | 3 | 10 | 62.5 |
| Average | 10 | 9.65 | 5 | 7.83 | 3 | 8 | 8 |
The average/highest salaries of Computer Science and Engineering are consideraly higher than other departments in all programmes, keeping in line with previously seen trends. Most departments have their average salary lower than 10 LPA.
The programme-wise average salaries show that B.Tech still retains the top stop, closely followed by Dual Degree.
Sector-Wise Distribution of Companies :
Around 35% of all companies are core, closely followed by IT companies. FMCG and public sector companies form a thin sliver of the pie chart. The rest of the non-core companies consist mostly of Finance, Analytics and Consulting firms.
Note : This is a distribution of the number of companies that registered for placements, not the number of students that got placed in these sectors.
CGPA vs. Salaries :
Perhaps the most interesting metric in this article. As suspected, the relationship between CGPA and average salary is quite linear and shows an interesting behavior. The Dual Degree students hold an edge over their B.Tech counterparts till the 8-8.5 range, where the B.Techs overtake them. The values for the MS, M.Tech, and the M.Sc programmes show absurd behaviour – they experience a peak at the 6-7 range, after which they seem to drop. The Dual Degree line also sees a small drop from the 8.0-8.5 to the 8.5-9.0 range, but then rises again. This time, the contending ‘app profile’ of students with high CGPAs does not seem to have affected their salary as was the case last year.
Percentage of Students Placed :
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In terms of percentage of people placed vs. those registered, once again, Computer Science is at the top closely followed by Engineering Design and Management Studies. The percentage of the total number of students placed vs. those registered in the institute stands at 69.4%
If we look at the percentage of people placed programme-wise, MBA seems to be the highest with above 90 percent, followed by Dual Degree and B.Tech respectively. This shows that placement percentage is not necessarily in line with the average salaries of these programs. (B.Tech had the highest average salary)
(The details for Campus Placements 2010-2011 are available in the February 2011 edition of the printed version. The softcopy for which is available here.)
How about publishing 2012-2013 placement details?
Hi! Can anyone give any details about placements after M.Tech exclusively for different IITs or any useful link in this regard. Will be thankful.
Hello All,
I have been called for interview in MS Management studies.
How good are placements in MS Management studies.
Do everyone gets placed?
What kind of profile is offered to MS students?
Eagerly waiting for your replies.
Thank you.
Can I get the placement vs CGPA graph for CS dual degree and lowest placement ??
U didn’t mention course wise salary scale for m.tech ……………
would have been nice if u had given details about m.tech salaries
also can anyone explain what is a dual degree
And how to get it.
…
…
tks
How are the placements for M tech in power systems and instrumentation and control ?
Amazing job…hats off..
But I agree with a previous point mentioning that domestic and foreign salaries should not compared,and foreign salaries are best not converted to Indian currency. Just as an eg,in the US… best possible salary for an engineer cum fresher (eg facebook)is around 130k PA…converted to indian currency its about 70 LPA…in India best is around 25-30 LPA(eg Schlum Asia)..there is a factor “k” coming into play here. Even with the current inflation in mind…these figures do not change much since we are talking tens of lakhs. Salaries are “naturally” higher in US…due to better GDP,living standards,economic reforms,you name it..and since there’s no universally accepted formula for salary interconversion…its misleading ..no offence…and good job once again !!
How is the placement for MTech Communication Systems? Which are the companies which come to recruit?
Hi guys…..
I have got offer m.tech in chemical engg. from IITM as well as IITK….which one is better in manners of academic and placement wise…..
Hi guys…..
I have got M.Tech offer from IITM as well as IITK….which one is better in manners of academic and placement wise…..
hi can u please tell me the best course of aerospace deptt (m. tech) with respect to placements and how is the placement scenario. Please give me some insight regarding the companies and the packages offered to the students of M.tech in aerospace. Kindly reply asap.
The analysis has not been done for B.Arch.The % of students placed,median salaries etc.
How is the placement scenario in MS by research in Manufacturing Engineering of the Mechanical Department.
Excellant analysis. Only about 58% found jobs from Chemical at IITM, as per the graph. That leaves a lot of IITM Chemical guys unemployed.. Or am I wrong.. I always thought Chemical had good prospects.
Satheesh
With all due respect Mr. Bhaskar, I do not think this is the right place to discuss the opportunities and prospects for your child. I suggest you to visit forums online dedicated for this and post questions there, or search and join forums and groups meant for this, which I believe you will find on social networking sites or else where.
Thanks.
Hello Mr Bhaskar!
Biotech is one of the upcoming and booming branches at IIT Madras. The department is improving at a tremendous pace and has a lot of affiliations for research and industry projects throughout the world. It would be a good take to join in the department!
hey…jst tell me d prospects of chemical engg….??? wich iit iz best…bombay or madras..???
Hi IITians,
I need your suggestion. My son got 3200 rank in JEE 2012. He is likely to get a course in Bio Technology. I would like to know job prospects in India. How many of the graduates got placed etc..
Thanks in advance
Bhaskar
The pie chart showing the distribution of companies across different sectors is not very helpful, esp. if you do not include another pie chart with the weighted distribution of the no. of job offers or final placements (minus cross placements) i.e. job acceptance for all companies.
This should be done because some companies like McK and BCG take 2 or 3 guys while there are other Bus companies, which take nearly 30 guys! Otherwise, one can simply not judge as to what percentage of people go to which industries after they graduate from IITM.
Pranav Rao, thank you for your encouraging comments and feedback.
Your idea seems to be fairly good, we shall be sure to keep it in mind for next year’s article.
You can email us at this address for further suggestions/feedback : t5e.iitm [at] gmail.com
A encouraging effort by the placement team, this year numbers definitely will go high. A good figure shown by PG courses.
Very clean presentation of facts. Kudos!
I find the Salary vs CGPA graph to be a bit misrepresenting(Of what I think you are trying to represent).
An average CS student (say CG 8.0), would be contributing to the 25L datapoint.Now suppose a Civil student who’s average too (CG of 8.0) were to look at the graph to predict his salary, he would find it to be totally off the actual value.(Average salary of Civil = 6.8L)
In short I am saying Salary won’t be a function dependent (at least majorly) on the CGPA alone.
We tried to solve this problem, by plotting CGPA vs Day of Placement instead. Its not a perfect solution, but it sure takes care of a lot of unknowns(like other benefits of the package,Company brand value etc) as that would already be factored in when deciding the Day of placement of a company. More importantly it is independent of Department.
You can find our analysis of IIT Kharagpur’s placements
Cheers,
Pranav Rao,
Editor, The Scholars’ Avenue.
Thats why I recommend B Tech, no matter on where u lie on no line, salary is gonna increases, which i going done for Dual and MS…
Mean is not an appropriate measure, use Median statistics.
Good job. But keep a tab on how the sister media bodies are covering Placement statistics on their respective websites.
Good analysis!
The CGPA-Salary graph looks scary!
Lawl CS averages
Too much. You should put up graphs, without the CS guys and a separate graph for them.
Seriously, put median salaries, the average is really distorting for a lot of cases.
Thank you for pointing out the errors. All the data has been now corrected.
IOCL was Day 3 , Flipkart was day 5/6 ! :-/
Nice detailed analysis.
As we have seen upward trend for international offers I guess it’s high time we follow some guidelines to give better picture to readers.
* – Do not convert $/international salaries to INR by prevailing exchange rate and use it for average salary calculations ! This is worst thing to do . At least convert by PPP if you wish , ‘domestic average salary’ can be reported separately.
* – Better report median salary also , as small branches/DD average can be distorted due to 1/2 high paying offers
some errors – CS was Day 2 company , NavArch is unreported in salary table !
Also in the dept. wise stats no mention of Ocean Engg dept. has been made.
Credit Suisse came on Day 2
And Hyundai came on Day 3 as far as I remember.
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