IIT Bhubaneswar ranks 17th in the Engineering category by NIRF 2019. It is one of the new IITs established in 2008. It has an active placement cell which received the highest annual salary package offered was 39 lakhs per annum. Companies like WIPRO, TCS, IBM, Microsoft, HCL, Adobe, INTEL Technology, Samsung, Amazon, etc. The placement record of UG courses was about 90% across all streams. The faculty of IIT Bhubaneswar consists of 145 members who are highly qualified and Ph.D. holders.
A student of IIT Bhubaneswar Chaitanya Pathipati has a record of attaining the highest pay offer of 39.02 lakhs per annum. It was the highest annual pay in the institute's 10 year history. He was offered by Microsoft. He was a BTech student in Computer Science Engineering. The second-highest pay was an offer of 31.50 lakhs per annum from Goldman Sachs. The third highest offer was to three students with an offer of 28.75 lakhs per annum offered by Amazon.