CGC Landran has a good reputation and is better known for placements of CSE/IT/ECE (IT Sector related streams). Mechanical stream placement of the college is averagely rated. The institute offers training for placement to its students.

• Few core companies visit for the mechanical branch. The college claims that Mechanical branch recruiters like Bajaj and Mahindra and Mahindra visit their campus but the number of placements from these companies is low.

• The average placement package of B. tech 2019 batch is 4.5 LPA and 1-2 students from a batch of 80 got packages of more than 9 lakh in IT-related branches. Most students in non-IT related branches land 3-4 LPA jobs.

• Many students of mechanical branches here study coding to get placed in the IT Sector.

Placements Statistics:

• The 2018-19 placement records have shown that 40-50% of students from the Mechanical department, among the eligible, were placed with median packages between 3 to 4 LPA. The year 2017-18 had shown almost the same results previously.

• Most of these placements are in non-core sectors.

At last, if a student is skilful and has knowledge at par with the concerned industry standard then they will surely find good placement irrespective of college. There are some examples of students who did outstanding and got placed in top mechanical core companies like Royal Enfield, Mahindra & Mahindra and Bajaj.

Shri Venkateswara University (SVU) offers civil engineering with an intake of 40 students. The department of civil engineering so far has awarded 42 Ph.D. and 352 MTech degrees. More than 60% of the students obtain MTech admissions in IISC and IITs in various civil engineering disciplines every year. 

Admission details:

• Candidates who have passed 10+2 with a minimum of 45% marks with physics and maths as compulsory subjects are eligible to apply for the Btech program. 
• Admissions will be based on the TNEA exam. 

Course Highlights:

Scholarships:

The college offers various scholarships to students under different categories. They are as follows:

• Management Scholarship - Based on Merit
• Management Scholarship - Based on Sports Performance
• Intramural Research Funding

Placements:

The placement department at SVU helps the students in all aspects of landing a secured job. Around 140 companies visited the campus in 2019-20. 

The major recruiters are EY, McKinsey, Amazon, L&T, RAMCO, Technip, etc. 

SVU campus is well equipped with all the necessary facilities like canteen, library, sports, transport, hostel, medical center and an Information Management System (IMS). The campus is wifi enabled.

Overall, it’s one of the best colleges in South India. Most of the students after graduating from this college are well-settled in the profession of their choice.

Nirma University is UGC, AIU recognized and has been accredited grade ‘A’ by NAAC. NIRF 2020 has ranked the institute at 131 for BTech.

The college offers B.Tech in Civil Engineering as a four-year full-time course at a fee of Rs 7.24 Lakhs for the full period. The prerequisite for seeking admission to Civil Engineering is scoring 55% and more in 10+2 examinations (PCM). Further, students are shortlisted on the basis of JEE Main or GUJCET scores. The course has a total of 120 seats available.

• The course has a placement rate of 50%. However, nearly every student is given an internship opportunity.

• The average package offered to civil students is approximately 4 LPA.

• The median salary offered is 4.1 LPA.

• The highest package offered was around 10 LPA.

A few of the major recruiters for Civil Engineering at Nirma University are L&T, Accenture, Cognizant, Deloitte, and IBM.

The placements of environmental engineering at DTU are great. According to the placement highlights of 2019, the environmental engineering department received a total of 38 placement offers and 27 students from the department got placed. The highest CTC received by the students of this department was around 16 LPA in this academic season. In the past students of environmental engineering received placement packages up to 25 lakhs per annum. The company offering the package was Brother Industries and the post was software developer. Students are offered lucrative packages at reputed firms such as ZS, MuSigma, Deloitte, UHG, Practo, RNF, Printvenue, etc. These companies offer average placement packages of around 5-6 lakhs per annum for non-tech posts. However, placements are not too promising for core companies. But a number of software firms, consultancies, analytics, R&D, finance MNCs visit the campus for placement sessions.

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) is a public engineering university, situated in Varanasi. The institute is built over a massive 1300 acre campus with top-notch facilities It offers an online mode of admission. The institute has tie-ups with the University of Cambridge (UK), University of Oxford (UK), University of Sheffield (UK). IIT BHU has been ranked 10th and 11th in the categories engineering and overall by the NIRF rankings in 2019. 

About the Course:

• The institute offers M.Tech in Civil Engineering as a full-time two-year course at a fee of Rs 53,050 for the full period. 
• The course has 29 seats available at IIT BHU.

Placements

• Placement rates for civil engineering in most institutes are low, IIT BHU is no different in this respect. 
• As compared to other branches, the number of companies coming for placements are less. 
• Top companies for civil include L&T, Indian Oil, and Flipkart. 
• The median salary at the institute is 8.1 LPA, whilst, the average package is approximately 8.2 LPA.

Recruiters from Indian and foreign companies visit the campus for placements. However, civil engineering rarely helps students land good placements as compared to other courses. Still with IIT being a renowned university student bag decent placement offers which average around 8 lakhs per annum, while the highest package may go upwards of 15LPA. 

With various international tie-ups, the institute has enhanced its learning experience and placement facilities. If you want good placements, it would be suggested you opt for a different branch of engineering.

Sona College of Technology is affiliated under Anna University, Chennai and approved by AICTE. Their student intake is 60-180 in each department. The college has been ranked at 150 among BTech colleges in NIRF Rankings 2020.

They have their dedicated Training and Placement cell. Their aim is to provide students with high quality job offers and to train students to match industry expectations. 

The table given below shows a brief overview of the placement:

Placement Highlights

• More than 80 companies participated in the placement program.
• The median salary package offered is 3 LPA.
• More than 416 offers were made.
• The top recruiters include HCL, Infosys, Capgemini, Bosch, Honeywell, TCS, Vedanta, IBM, Wipro, Accenture, Essar Steels, JSW Steels, Future Group, etc.

Industry Collaboration

They have an Industry Academia Collaboration with JSW Steel limited, Federation of all the Civil Engineers Association of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, Irrigation Management Training Institute (PWD) Water resource Govt. of Tamil Nadu, CADD Centre, KCube Consultancy Services Pvt.Ltd., Data Crop, Texas Instruments Innovations Lab, Infosys Computer Connect, National physical Research Laboratory, New Delhi, Nottingham Trent University and many more.

Facilities

• They have separate boys and girls hostels.
• They provide Transport and Medical facilities.
• They also include a computer centre, satellite live lectures, innovative teaching, apple lab, incubation centre, etc.
• They have 3 auditoriums, 2 seminar halls and a gym.
• The campus is wifi enabled.
• The library consists of 73498 books and e-journals.

Students technical knowledge is developed to meet the corporate requirements. It helps develop the student’s personality in terms of career planning, setting a goal and obtaining skills. They assure that a maximum number of students will be placed in top companies, both through on and off campus placements.

After a having a look at the M-Tech placements at IIT Bhubaneswar for the batch of 2020, it was observed that the placement rate for MTech students was 68% with companies like Adobe, Amazon, Accenture, Affine Analytics, HCL, HPCL, IOCL, ISRO, Ittiam, Infosys, KIIT, Go-Jek, and Goldman Sachs coming as recruiters and PSUs like IOCL, NCCBM, ISRO also taking part in the recruitment process. The highest placements were about 40 LPA CTC with the top recruiters being Goldman Sachs, Renault Nissan, Oracle, Samsung R and D, TCS R and D, Infosys, and Adobe to name a few. IT, Core Engineering Sectors, and education sectors drew the maximum placements followed by PSU, E-commerce and Analytics. Now moving on to VLSI while this branch is not available as a full branch for MTech at IIT Bhubaneswar, another branch of ECE is available in MTech which is communication systems although it is also named as ECE in MTech. This branch has VLSI as an elective course with 3 credits and 3 contact hours, and the above M-Tech placement statistics ought to give you an idea with respect to the placements of that branch at IIT Bhubaneswar.