How is the placement scenario at IIT Kharagpur?

IIT Kharagpur is one of the prominent campuses that people look up to for engineering. Placements are by & large all great. More than 1000 students get placed in the first 10 days of drive. 

You must keep in mind that it is very competitive and you really need to pull up your socks to grab a seat. The prominent details regarding the placement scenario of different departments is given below:

The placements are not only a single sector oriented; but offer a wide interdisciplinary career growth as follows:

• Higher Education - 23%
• Core Engineering - 23%
• IT - 21%
• Analytics - 12%
• Ecommerce - 5%
• Consulting - 4%
• Finance & HR - 3%

The general data regarding placements of B.tech students is in the following table:

The median package stands clearly around Rs. 13 LPA while the highest is bagged by computer science engineering students offered by companies like Microsoft , Google. 

The major recruiters of different sectors are quite reputed companies described in brief below:

• CSE: Adobe Systems, CA Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Oracle Inc., Centre for Development of telematics, Cognizant , Google , HP , HT Media Limited and Texas Instruments.
• Mechanical : ALTAIR, Barclays Capital, Bosch India, IPSOS, ITC Limited, CESC Limited , Coal India Limited, Ericsson India Global Services and EXL Services.
• ECE : Analog Device India Ltd., Atos India, BHEL, CA Technologies Ltd., Infosys Technologies Ltd., L&T , NetApp Systems India Ltd., Cisco Systems and DRDO
• Biotechnology: Sigma Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd, MAGMA Fincorp Ltd.

IIT Kharagpur offers knowledge at a full stretch; the only effort and hard work is required on the part of an individual as grabbing a seat in the core sector is tough job. A lot of students get placed in non core sectors but the best definitely receive good opportunities.