NIT Durgapur Placements 2023: Highest Package: INR 51 LPA & Average Package INR 11.46LPA, Top Recruiters

NIT Durgapur has been recording excellent placements over the last few years. The placements are exceptionally good for the CSE branch followed by ECE. Other branches have an average growth and Civil and Biotech have performed poorly. 

During NIT Durgapur placements 2023, the highest CTC offered was INR 70 LPA while the average salary stood at INR 13.64 LPA.

The top recruiters included TCS Ninja, PwC, ICICI Bank, Microsoft, and many others. More than 100 recruiters participated in the placement drive and 633 students were placed. The table below mentions some details of branch-wise placements at NIT Durgapur

Overall, During NIT Durgapur Placements 2023, MME branch achieved 90.32% of placement percentage. The placement scenario is great!

As an alumni of Biotech at NIT Durgapur, I will tell you about the placement scenario of this course.

Only 20-30% Biotech students are placed, mostly through Mass hirings. Usually the salary ranges from 3-4 LPA. Those who are able to grab IT jobs are offered around 5-6 LPA. These are hardly 4-6 students from an entire batch. Top IT and consulting companies visiting the campus do not allow Biotech students to sit for placements. Also, core companies do not visit the campus for placements.

Do not join Biotechnology at NIT Durgapur if you seek placements. But for higher studies, you can join this department. Students from Biotech get admissions into renowned Indian and foreign universities for higher education.

The reality about ECE placements at NIT Durgapur is that the ECE core sector companies rarely visit for placements and most packages are offered by IT sector companies. A few core companies that have visited in the past are CDOT, Sankalp Semiconductors, Idea Cellular & Reliance Jio. Recently big shots like Qualcomm, TI, and NXP have started visiting the campus for recruitment.

As for the stats, the institute does not release the highest package. Here is what is released officially 

All in all the future of ECE in NIT Durgapur seems promising both in core and IT!

As per the 2023 placement data released by NIT Durgapur,187 companies visited the campus. The placement percentage stood at 84.66%. 746 offers were given to the students in total. The highest CTC was recorded at INR 70 LPA and the average CTC stood at INR 13.62 LPA.

4% students were offered <5 LPA, 46% were offered 5-10 LPA, 24% were offered 10-15 LPA, and 26% were offered >15 LPA.

Here are the branch-wise placement% and average CTC for different B.Tech courses at NIT Durgapur-

This is the detailed placement scenario at NIT Durgapur for 2023 batch.

Placements for B.Tech Mechanical are good at NIT Durgapur. 

These are some companies that visit the campus for recruitments- Bajaj Auto R&D, LnT Power, Lnt ECC, Ashok Leyland, Saint Gobain,Thermax, Capegemini, Pricewatercoopers(PWC), Tredence, Mphasis, Analytics Quotient, Tata Consultancy Services, Linde India Ltd., Hero Motocorp, Tata Motors, Aakash Institute, Tata Tinplate, Vedanta, Wacker Metroark, Pradan, Tractors India Ltd.(TIL), Nuvoco Vistas Corp. Ltd., Jindal Steel Limited, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Paharpur Cooling Towers Limited (PCTL), Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), JSW Steel, Elegant Marine Services, Denso, MN Dastur, Anglo Eastern, and Lalwani Ferro Alloys.

For 2023 placements, B.Tech Mechanical branch achieved 84.05% placements. The average CTC for Mechanical stood at INR 9.72 LPA.

Thus, the placements for B.Tech Mechanical at NIT Durgapur are quite promising.

The placements for B.Tech Chemical Engineering are good at NIT Durgapur. For core placements, companies like RIL, JSW Cement, Vedanta, Linde, Tata Tinplate, Haldia Petrochemical, and HPCL visit the campus. Students are also offered placements in Finance, Software, and startup companies like Grofers, Analytics Quotient, Verity, Oracle FSS, Infosys, IBM, and Wipro. 

Some students choose to pursue a Ph.D.. or Master’s in renowned universities/colleges like IIT Kgp, IIT Bombay, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Haldia institute of technology, and BITS Goa.

During 2023, B.Tech Chemical Engineering recorded 83.33% placements. The average salary stood at INR 8.87 LPA for this course.

Thus, placement prospects are quite good for the B.Tech Chemical Engineering students of NIT Durgapur.

The Electrical branch offers good placement opportunities to its students. I will mention below the average salary offered during 2023 placement season.

During 2023 placements, B.Tech EE recorded a good performance. 89.66 % students were placed from this branch at an average package of INR 14.61 LPA.

Some companies that recruit electrical students from NIT Durgapur include- Coal India, L&T, Tata Metaliks, Verity solutions, Alstom, Mu sigma, etc.

Wipro, IBM, and INFOSYS are some of the mass recruiters that offer placements to electrical students.

As you can assess, the placement figures are quite good. So as far as job opportunities are concerned, you can definitely consider NIT Durgapur for your electrical degree.