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• There is a great scope in the field of animation. Employment opportunities are more in the media and entertainment industry.
• Job opportunities in animation exist in many areas such as entertainment channels like movies and television, business products, graphic design, and computer games.
• There are opportunities in other areas such as fashion, advertising, web designing, and learning, etc.

The following table shows the basic placement statistics for the university:

The specializations or roles offered are – 2 D Animator, 3 D Animator, Key Frame Animator, Image Editor, Modeller, Cartoonist, Forensic Animator, Visual Development Artist, Flash Animator, Stop Motion Animator, Animation Director, Character Animator, Texture Artist, Layout Artist, Lighting Artist, StoryBoard Artist, Background Artist, Clean Up Artist, Rigging Artist, Rendering Artist, and Digital Ink and Paint Artist.

Although all the institutes offer good placement to its students, a comparative analytical report based on points would be helpful for you to decide which institute to choose for your higher studies.

XLRI:

• Some of the top recruiters who offer internship and job opportunities to the XLRI students are Aditya Birla Group, Amazon, Microsoft, are ITC, JP Morgan, Ramco Systems, Accenture, Sapient, ATG Tires, Lodha Group, RPG, Udaan, P&G, Colgate Palmolive, Ola, Myntra, Samsung, C K Birla, Power Finance Corporation among others.

• The highest and medium salary packages remain to be around 50 LPA and 12-15 LPA.

IIML:

• It offers 100% placement to its students.

• The top recruiters are JCB India, Bosch, Apparel group, Tolaram Group, RPG Group, and more.

• The highest and the medium salary range remain to be around 54 LPA and 23 LPA.

IIMK:

• Students at IIMK get 98% placement and the highest and the medium salary package remains to be around 40 LPA and 18 LPA.

• Some of the top recruiters who offer internship and job opportunities are Cognizant, Wipro, Amazon, Airtel, City Bank, Deloitte, Nestle, Bosch, Microsoft, Raymond, and more.

SIBM Pune:

It was ranked 6th by Outlook India in 2020.

• The top recruiters who offer placement to the students are Axis Bank, Flipkart, Diageo, KPMG, Capgemini, HDFC Bank, Mahindra CIE, ITC, and more.

• The highest and the medium packages are 34 LPA and 18 LPA.

NMIMS:

NMIMS has ranked 2nd among the top BBA colleges of India by India Today in 2020.

• Top recruiters of NMIMS students are IBM, Johnson, and Johnson, Deloitte, ICICI, HDFC Bank, Cadila, Mankind, Accenture, Amdocs, Bajaj Finserv, Aditya Birla Group, Alkem, Cipla, and more.

• The highest and medium salary packages remain to be around 30 LPA and 17 LPA.

JBIMS:

• Students receive job opportunities from various companies such as Mahindra Group, TATA Group, The Boston Consulting Group, Reliance Industries, Godrej consumer products, and more.

• The highest and medium packages that are offered are 32 LPA and 26 LPA.

These are the major placement related details that you should be taking into account while deciding whether you want to join any of these institutes or not.

UEM Kolkata is one of the best engineering colleges in West Bengal. It has excellent and experienced faculty members of 146. It offers 100% placements to the students. CSE and Mechanical are the best departments in this institute. 

Placements Overview

• UEM Kolkata has an impeccable reputation for providing top quality placements. 
• Around 761 students got placed in the 2019 placement drive in 1031 companies. 
• The institute also organises Soft Skill Development Program (SSDP) and Higher Career Training Program (HCTP). 
• Pre-placement talks are arranged to guide the students for the upcoming recruitments. 

Placement Statistics

The table given shows placement statistics of the institute:

Recruiting Companies

The major recruiters of UEM Kolkata are:-

UEM Kolkata offers superb placement assistance with top companies coming for recruitment, offering most lucrative packages and benefits. On average each student has one or two job offers in their hands which is best in the industry.

Adamas University is one of the private universities that takes engineering students through WBJEE. The campus and college life are pretty good here. Well experienced and helpful faculties are there. The infrastructure is well developed with well-equipped labs and AC classrooms. The campus is clean and green. The overall environment of the university is wonderful.

But as you are looking it for engineering, you must wait for the next counseling round and get upgraded for a better college. Nearly 70% of the college that comes under WBJEE is not as good as they should be. This is because placements are not up to mark in these colleges. Most of the students graduating in B.E. or B.Tech from Adamas University are unplaced because students here only get a degree but not quality education which can provide them good technical skills and knowledge. The students who get placed get very less package and many of them remain jobless.

Some of the faculties are very good. They are from very esteemed institutions like IITs and NITs. They have a really good approach towards teaching but this is not the case with all teachers.

So, overall, I would advise you to wait for the next round as Adamas University is not a very good choice.

The Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS) has developed its prominent identity as a hub of excellence in development interventions, management education, consultancy, and research. It offers a portfolio of research, academic, outreach programs, and social involvement. XISS has been ranked 76th by NIRF amongst 100 institutes in India 2020 and 85th out of 284 in India 2019 by India Today.

The admissions at XISS are based on a valid score in CAT/XAT/CMAT entrance exam.In addition to CAT, the university also accepts XAT and CMAT exam scores. CAT entrance exam scores.

Infrastructure:

The institute offers a broad range of facilities to the students.

• A well-stocked library with more than 45000 volumes of books is available on campus. Moreover, the library also has Encyclopedias, Journals, Magazines, and Almanacs. It is also equipped with e-library facilities.

• An Auditorium with a seating capacity of 300 is also available.

• State-of-the-art classrooms and conference rooms, sports ground, fitness center, guest house, cafeteria, Computer/IT facility, hostels with 24x7 security, Wi-fi, medical facility with qualified doctors, laboratories are some of the facilities offered.

Placement:

• At XISS, the campus placement takes place in two phases viz from October to December and from January to March.

• The Placement Cell helps connect the Organisations with the talent at the Institute.

• For the final year students, Pre-Placement Talks are conducted before the commencement of placement sessions every year.

• The institute also has a “Campus on Wheel” facility for the companies/organizations that are not able to visit the campus for the recruitment process.

• More than 83 companies participated in the campus drive among which 48 recruiters were new.

• Overall 285 offers were made with the highest salary of INR 14.50 LPA and an average salary of INR 5.31 LPA.

• Some of the top recruiters visiting the campus are Adani Group, Allergan India, Asian Paints Ltd., Cholamandalam Finance, Cognizant, Hindustan Unilever Ltd., L&T Finance, and many more.

XISS institute not only provides good opportunities to MBA students in terms of education quality but also with college infrastructure and teaching faculty and placements. The overall placement percentage at the institute for MBA programs is around 90%. Packages offered to MBA students here range from 5 lakh to 15 lakh. Furthermore, 100% of students got internships in 2019.

ABV-IIITM, Gwalior observes an overall placement rate of 85-90% across total students through the placement drive. It conducts placements every single year across Engineering, Business Development/Sales, Education and Information Technology, with the maximum number of placements taking place in the field of Engineering. Information Technology and Education sectors see a placement rate of 11% as opposed to Engineering, which is at 30%.

• IIITM, Gwalior witnesses tech companies, marketing, e-commerce, digital development, financial services, banks, electronics, and software companies as some of their top recruiters.
• The most popular companies to have hired students from the college in the year 2020 are Dell, Goldman Sachs, Byju’s, HCL, HDFC, Goibibo, IBM, Infosys, Paytm, Myntra, Pwc, Cartesian, Nagarro, and more.
• Over the years, top companies that have been associated with employing students from IIITM, Gwalior are Adobe, Amazon, Axis Bank, CISCO, Book my Show, Deloitte, Japan Wipro, Yahoo, and Oracle.
• The college also provides summer internship opportunities to students across leading companies like Flipkart, BNY Mellon, Diaspark, and more. In 2019, a total of 139 students were selected for summer internships provided by the college. Out of this, 18 students were from the MBA program and 121 students from the MTech stream.

It offers an average salary package of 10.5 LPA, with 40 LPA being the highest salary package received. Apart from this, a total student count of 18% was observed to have received Pre-placement offers (PPO) from the college. The highest placement package for MBA programs was marked at 15 LPA.

Once students appear for the placement drive, the college will upload a selection list on their website informing students about the status of their interview. Students can also check the list of prospective major employers of the year on the website.

KLE Technical University provides quality education focusing on recent trends in computer science. Also in terms of faculty and placement facilities of KLE technical university is much better than the NMAM institute of technology which is an autonomous engineering college in NITEE. Many companies are offering jobs with good salary packages at KLE technical university.

Faculty

• NMAM: The institute has 318 teaching staff with 120 research scholars working in various research institutes.

• KLE technical university: The department of computer science engineering at KLE technical university has the highest number of faculty members which are around 55 faculty members with more than 10 years of teaching experience 

Placement records

Here the placement record is also good for CSE students at KLE technical university than NMAM institute of technology, NITTE. Every year around 100 companies are coming to hire talented students and are offering good salary packages.

KLE Technical University:

Microsoft, Amazon, SAO lab, BEL, Nokia, Walmart lab, TATA Hitachi, Samsung, Amagi, IBM, Analog devices, etc. Number of selected candidates and salary package details;

• Amazon AWS offered the highest salary package of 30 lakhs per annum.

• Microsoft, Amazon, and Analog devices offered above 15 lakhs p.a.
• A total of 192 students have been placed in CSE and the process is still ongoing. 
• In 2019, the department placed 204 students with reputed companies.

NMAM Institute of Technology:

Sony, Informatica, Nokia L&T, Bharat electronics, TATA Hitachi, HP R&D, TATA motors, Tally, Tejas network, IBM, INSZoom, TATA insurance, etc. Salary package description provided below;

• Total 217 students were selected through placement while 7 students also got internship offers
• Robert Bosch has selected 50 students and a salary package of 14 lakhs per annum.
• Walmart offered 14 CTC.
• Microsoft, Amazon AWS, SAP labs, Akamai provided 9 LPA.

The placement statistics of KLE technical university reveals that undoubtedly KLE technical university is the best option among these two institutes.