Why do the IIIT Hyderabad bags the highest salary amongst IITs and IIITs?

It's true that IIIT Hyderabad students secure better packages than top IIT students. In fact, the average package of IITs for instance IIT Bombay is INR 23.26 LA whereas that of IIIT Hyderabad is INR 32 LPA. There are a number of factors that have resulted in this difference in packages.

• IIIT-Hyderabad students have always been in demand by many foreign companies and Indian corporates. IT giants like Facebook and Apple initially only approached IIIT Hyderabad for placements and slowly made their way to IITs.
• The highly research-focused education churns out graduates who are better suited to solve unstructured problems, exploring options by themselves. This is what most companies are looking for.
• IIIT Hyderabad’s unique course structure in which all the courses are CS tailored plays an important role in preparing students for jobs in MNCs.
• course structure makes a big difference in median salaries
• Another reason why IIIT Hyderabad has a higher average package is that it has only 2 branches, ECE and CSE. It's a no-brainer that CSE receives the highest package in every institute so the institute that offers only CSE and ECE automatically tends to have a higher average package than an institute that has a variety of branches. Because of a wide range of branches, the average packages offered in top IITs get diluted. 

In a refuted claim,  IIT-Madras's Director, Bhaskar Ramamurthi states that ‘if we compare similar cohorts and discipline-wise median salaries, IIT graduates are likely to have higher median salaries’.