The average salary package is calculated by dividing the total number of students placed from the total amount offered. Whereas the median salary package is taken into account by approximating the middle of all the offers made to the students after arranging them in ascending order.
The huge difference between the average and the median package of IIIT Guwahati is influenced by the number of students. A small-scale of students were placed as the batch of CSE stream consisted of very less students.
A small number of two to four students were able to land high package offers, resulting in a high average package whereas the median package provides an insight of the average package received by maximum students. So, yes the difference between average CTC and median CTC is misleading, but it’s not fake. And the discrepancy is due to the small student intake