How are the placements in IIT Palakkad?

IIT Palakkad is from the new league of IITs. It has collaboration with Auckland University for the semester abroad programme and has tie-up with UST Global for providing students with the opportunity to learn cutting-edge technology in the R & D sector.

Placement Overview

• The IT sector made most recruitments with 44%, followed by Core Engineering and Banking and Finance with 21% and 18% respectively.
• 10 PPOs were received by students with highest stipend of 25,000
• Many companies like Arista Networks, Maybank, TCS, TRAI, L&T, HSBC, Fincure, iManage,BOSCH, Visteon participated in the recruitment drive
• In 2019, 62 companies took part in the recruitment process. The companies belonged to different sectors like government, consulting, services, research and development etc.
• 64 offers were made to students. The average salary offered was around 7 LPA.

Placement Statistics

• The highest salary packages are offered to students of the CS branch followed by chemical and mechanical engineering.
• The highest salary package offered was 16 LPA. The lowest salary package offered is 6 LPA.
• 90% students were placed from CSE, while the average placement rate was between 60-85% for the other branches

This is a new college and the first batch graduated just last year, hence placements and facilities will increase with time. The choice of college depends on every individual’s discretion, resources and vision.