Which has better placements, IIT (BHU) Electrical or IIT (BHU) Electronics?

IIT BHU is among the top Engineering colleges in India. NIRF 2020 has ranked IIT BHU in the 11th position for BTech. The average placement rate for all branches at the institute is 71%.

Electronics Engineering:

From the Electronics Engineering department at IIT-BHU, almost 95% of the students get placed each year. Placements of Electronics are par with Computer Science Placements.

• The average package for Electronics is around 14 LPA.
• Core companies that offer placement for Electronics students are Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), Qualcomm, Intel, Sony, LG Electronics, Texas Instruments, Cisco, Philips Semiconductors, Toshiba, etc.

Electrical Engineering:

The Electrical Department has very good placement records over the years. In last year’s placement, around 90% of the students from the department were placed.

• The average package received was around 11-12 LPA.
• Core recruiting companies visiting for recruiting ElectricalPGCIL, IOCL, HPCL, Trident, Reliance, Maruti, etc.

Besides this all the Non-Core Sector Companies in the domain Analytics, Business, Management, Consultancies, etc. offer jobs in both departments but some software companies are open only for Electronics but generally overall companies visiting the campus for Electronics and Electrical Engineering are nearly the same. Hence according to the statistics, the placements of the Electronics Department are better than the Electrical Engineering Department.