VLSI in IIT Bhubaneswar is good both in academics and in placements. The teaching standard is very good as most of the faculties are Ph.D. holders. The placement statistics of the university have been excellent so far and it's actually increasing each year. In 2019, 68% of the M.Tech batch have been placed with core and other sectors. The highest number of job offers received from core companies. A total of 89 companies visited the campus during the placement drive. The average salary offered in 2019 was 11.44 Lakh per annum, whereas the highest domestic CTC went up to as much as 39 Lakhs per annum. Companies like Adobe, Amazon, Accenture, Affine Analytics, HCL, HPCL, Ittiam, Infosys, KIIT, Go-Jek, Goldman Sachs, and many others visited the campus for recruitment.
PSU’s like ISRO, IOCL, NCCBM also participated in the placement to recruit students. Recently, IIT Bhubaneswar signed MoU with many universities for various purposes like research and student exchange. The institute also collaborates with foreign universities such as the University of Warwick, University of Southampton, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of Western Ontario, University of New York, University of North Dakota USA, and McGill University. This will provide the students with excellent internship and research opportunities.