How was the placement of IIT Kharagpur in 2019?

For the 2019 batch, more than 1300 students received job offers in the first phase of placements. On the first day of the placement drive, 5 students bagged packages exceeding INR 1 Crore per annum.

A total of 220 companies registered for the placement process from different sectors like Software, Analytics, Consulting, Banking, Finance, etc for the first phase. Microsoft and Goldman Sachs were the top recruiters on the first day of placement with 24 and 14 job offers respectively. Apart from that for summer placements, the students of the institute received more than 500 internship offers.

The top international recruiter was Japan with the maximum no. of offers made. Out of the 23 international offers made across all the placement days, there were a total of 11 offers made by the 4 Japanese firms. To add to this there were 16 new companies that participated in the placement process including ARPWood Capital, Bidgely, Blackrock, and AB InBev. Rakuten was another Japanese firm that was a late addition and made more international offers. There were offers made by German companies as well for the first time in the history of IIT Kharagpur.

40% of the job offers were made from IT and software companies followed by core engineering companies at 20 % and E-commerce and analytics companies constituting 15 % of the job offers each. 10% of the job offers were also made by companies in the finance sector. The maximum no. of job offers was made by companies like Flipkart, Qualcomm, and JP Morgan. The average CTC for the whole batch remained stagnant at 15 LPA.