Cochin University Placement 2020: Highest CTC: INR 15 LPA & AVG CTC: INR 4.7 LPA

It depends on the branch or department you are choosing in CUSAT and SRM. Here is the highlight of the recent placement statistics for the institutes.

If you want to go in Ship Tech, CS and IT, Safety and Fire, then Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) is a better option than SRM.

But if you are looking to make your career in Civil, EEE or EC, Mechanical then SRM is better than Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT).

One of my friends studies at Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). According to him, although CUSA has better students than SRM, no private companies come for recruitment at the campus for core branches.

In SRM big companies come for placement. You also can sit for placement drives of companies. Some of the recruiters of SRM are L&T, Pallonji, Shapoorji, etc. You also get to face competition in SRM.

If you are willing to join CUSAT core branches then you have to look out for off-campus placements or can also prepare for GATE, UPSC, or IES.

Since some of my friends studied at CUSAT, Let me share their insight on the companies that tend to visit CUSAT at the time of the placement.

• In the CS background, the IT companies like Infosys and TCS visit the campus every year.
• For the mechanical department, CEAT and KITKO companies have visited.
• The college provides better placement opportunities for CS and IT Branches.
• The fire and safety department of the college gets huge compensation due to the huge demand for fire engineering and less supply for fire engineering in India.
• For CS and IT branches the students get placed with good packages from INR 10-20 LPA.
• You just need to prepare well for placements should score well in your CGPA.

The placement percentage is low in the Mechanical branch, EEE, and Civil branches. You may not get core companies but you may get jobs in other sectors.

If you are looking for placements for CS jobs, a lot of branches from engineering are eligible for it. These include IT, EC, CS, and even EE sometimes. These branches are included from both campuses, CUSAT and CUSEK.

Many students from CUSEK also travel to CUSAT to attend placements. A few students from M.Tech and MCA are also eligible to appear for these placements.

• The criteria for eligibility differ from company to company but if you have a CGPA of 8.3 (75%) and no other backlogs.
• You can appear for almost every company that visits the college for placements.
• Once you have qualified past the eligibility criteria, you will realize that there is not much distinction between IT and CS branch students.
• Most companies end up treating all students equally.
• If you are looking to target specific areas for your development, programming skills, and interview prepare the ones you should focus on.
• Other than this, your class rank, CGPA as well other past backlogs will not matter if you ace the first two.
• Next, if you are looking to rank ease of placements branch-wise and package size, computer science is the leader.
• This is followed by IT, SF and EC at a tie, EE, and lastly ME and CE tying off again.

In my opinion, securing placements for CS is not that difficult. Students with pending backlogs also are placed so you do not have much to be worried about. Just do your best.

The Fire and Safety Engineering Department is one of the best at CUSAT. As one of my friends studied there, I might be able to share some details which can help you with your question.

• This department has got good infrastructure along with good faculties.
• About 90% of the students of this branch get a good offer for a package.
• But this field is limited to getting a job, as most of the companies recruiting on-campus look for other colleges.
• The competition will be less as very few colleges offer this kind of branch.
• CUSAT is the best fire and safety branch in India.

You will get placement with the package of INR 8-10 LPA initially for PSU in the sector of Oil. The placements are mostly in the field of public sector units like IOCL, GAIL, and ONGC.

CUSAT is worth spending your 2 years of MBA. School of Management Studies, CUSAT is one of the most reputed B-schools in Southern India, therefore considered a very good place to study.

The campus is quite large and welcoming along with the quality education. The college owns an ample amount of well-qualified faculty members, thereby giving you complete knowledge regarding the particular field.

The placements earlier were organized for a particular field. But now, there is a single placement cell and a placement officer heading it. This has increased the placement offers for the students.

The environment of the college gives you a chance to work for your holistic development along with the curriculum. Also, the college offers decent placement opportunities in the most prestigious companies across the country.

So if you have thought of getting admission into the School of Management Studies, CUSAT, for your MBA, you can go for the option without any second thought.

Some of my friends are from CUSAT. Whatever information I have gathered from them, I will share as this could help you understand the question a bit more. Here are some placement statistics you can consider as far as CUSAT placements are concerned:

• The quality of students also differs and it has become drastically different from before.
• The cutoff from the last few years has also gone up by almost half.
• Some really good companies also visit the institute for placements.
• These include Oracle, Google, and other e-commerce companies like Amazon, Flipkart, and Snapdeal.
• However, you should know that only a few students will qualify through the interview round and secure a job.
• You will have to be a good programmer and maintain a CGPA of 8.5 at least.
• Many students don’t do well in interviews if they lack programming skills and do not have that sort of GPA.
• But, in every case, there is an exception. Some exceptional students are able to crack these interviews and get placed in decent companies with really high packages.
• For example, back in 2016, a student cracked the IBM interview and secured a pay of INR 36 lakhs per annum.
• Many other students also have got good placements in off-campus recruitment so you can try that too.

You don’t have to be too worried about being placed. Once your overall course is complete many companies will continue visiting the college and students will get placed in the future.

According to one of my cousin’s personal experiences, Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding is a very innovative course that a student can pursue, therefore get a chance to explore many different things.

If you are interested in pursuing DoST CUSAT, then there are ample opportunities that you can get. Not only in terms of education but the college provides an excellent placement to all the students. But at the same time, you should be aware enough to grab the opportunities and work very hard to achieve the targeted career opportunities.

There is a group of well-qualified faculty members who prepare you for all your future endeavors so that you can make the best out of yourself. Not only academics but they give you hands-on experience to the particular that is very helpful for you during your placement interviews.

The placements are quite decent in which many prestigious companies across the country as well as from many other countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and various other countries participate. But due to the oil crisis, the placements were a little dull during the past one to two years. If we look at the overall placements they are good.

Therefore, we can conclude that the placement opportunities for Naval Architecture and shipbuilding are very attractive to opt for.

No, companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, etc don’t recruit students from any branch of engineering in CUSAT.

Companies like Google recruit students from premier institutes like IITs, NITs, DTU, NSIT, etc only. For institutes like CUSAT, such high-profile job offers cannot be expected on campus.

• In CUSAT, some of the companies that recruit students every year are Infosys, TCS, Mu Sigma, etc.
• The type of offers in placement and the packages offered by companies mostly depend on the branch of engineering in CUSAT. Mostly, circuital branches like CSE, IT, and ECE receive the best offers from companies during their in-campus placement.

These are some of the key highlights regarding the placement of students in CUSAT, which is decent, but not as good as IITs and NITs.