IIT Madras Placement trend – Detailed Analysis

Over the years Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras has maintained an excellent placement. 1300 students from IIT madras participated in the recruitment drive, which was remarkable.

IIT Madras offers seven different undergraduate degree programs and one postgraduate program MBA offered by the Department of Management Studies.

The top branch that bagged the highest package whopping INR 133.05 LPA is the department of Computer Science and Engineering followed by the Department of Electrical Engineering. Along with this, the Department of Management Studies witnessed a 100% placement record where the highest CTC offered was of INR. 29.1 LPA.

IT sector recruited the highest number of students, followed by Analytics firm, Consulting firm and finance sector.

Additionally, for MBA 2019 batch 63 out of 65 students participated in placement drive, all these students were from different background like engineering, commerce, hotel management, sciences etc..

IIT Madras Placement Highlights for 2019

Total No. of Companies visited for campus placement	246
No. of Students Placed	872
Total No. of Offers Made	1015
Total No. of Preplacement offers	136
No. of Pre-placement offers accepted	99

IIT Madras Course-wise Placement Analysis

The following graph represents the number of placement offers made under different degree courses–

Course	Placements (%)
B.Tech.	85.38
Dual Degree	85.52
M.Tech.	66.10
M.A.	81.82
M.Sc.	41.67
MS	73.55
Ph.D.	28.57

The CSE branch of B.Tech. program had the highest CTC of INR. 113 LPA whereas Dual Degree program with the maximum CTC of INR. 92.94 LPA.

All the courses offered by IITM witnessed great placement record, however, the M.Sc. program which secured the lowest CTC of 9 LPA.

IIT Madras Department of Management Studies Course-wise Placements

Given below is the highest and average package of courses offered under the department of management studies.

Course Name	Highest Package	Average Package
MBA	29.06 LPA	12.44 LPA
MS by Research	15.96 LPA	12.79 LPA
Ph.D.	23 LPA	18.68 LPA

Comparing al the courses here, MBA courses have the highest salary offer of 29.06 LPA, while MS by Research had lowest salary package of 15.96 LPA.

IIT Madras Sector-wise Placements

Various companies from different sector recruited more than 204 students of IIT Madras. 

Sectors	No. of Students Placed
Analytics/Consulting/Finance  firms	204
Core companies	170
Education Sector	38
FMCG Sector	3
IT Sector	234
PSU companies	3
R&D Companies	122
Others	98

The following graph represents the number of companies from different sectors that came for campus placement-

IIT Madras DoMS Sector-wise Placements

Given below is the trend analysis of sector wise placements for IIT Madras.

Here in the table, you can see the experience wise percentage of hiring in different sectors.

Sector	Work experience of 0-1 year	Work experience of 1-3 year	Work experience of more than 3year
Analytics	26%	52%	9%
Consulting	33%	16%	28%
Finance	26%	12%	9%
HR	3%	–	–
IT	4%	4%	27%
Marketing	4%	4%	18%
Operations	4%	12%	9%

IT sector offered the highest CT  of INR 16.8 LPA. Some of the major recruiters were CISCO, IBM, Micron Tech. Additionally, the Marketing and the Operations Sector recruited over 8% and 6% of the batch respectively and offered the highest CTC of INR. 29.1 LPA each. The major recruiters were AG Facilities, VIP, Zycus, Amazon, and McKinsey.

Additionally, the Finance sector recruited 17% of the students, HR Sector recruited 2% of students.

IIT Madras Branch-wise Percentage of Placements

Mentioned below is the branch wise percentage of placement for the year 2018-19:

Branch	No. of Placement Offers (%)
Aerospace Engineering	70
Applied Mechanics	69
Biotechnology	67
Civil Engineering	65
Chemical Engineering	74
Chemistry	48
Computer Science & Engineering	90
Electrical Engineering	86
Engineering design	83
Humanities & Social Sciences	82
Mathematics	59
Mechanical	75
Metallurgical	55
Ocean	64
Physics	18

Again the CSE branch recorded the highest number of placement offer followed by the Electrical Engineering branch. However, Physics branch has lowest number of offers.

Given below given is the range of salaries that are offered to students in various engineering branches during placement 2018-19-

Branch	Range of Salary Offered (INR)
Aerospace Engineering	6.3 LPA –  29 LPA
Applied Mechanics	6.25 LPA –  18.9 LPA
Biotechnology	6.5 LPA –  17.5 LPA
Civil Engineering	5.25 LPA – 17.5 LPA
Chemical Engineering	4.8 LPA – 32 LPA
Chemistry	3 LPA – 11 LPA
Computer Science and Engineering	9.1 LPA –  133.05 LPA
Electrical Engineering	7 LPA – 39 LPA
Engineering Design	7 LPA – 26 LPA
Engineering Physics	9.3 LPA – 24 LPA
Humanities & Social Sciences	3.6 LPA – 14 LPA
Mathematics	3.6 LPA – 18 LPA
Mechanical Engineering	5 LPA – 31 LPA
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering	7 LPA – 32 LPA
Ocean Engineering	6 LPA – 23 LPA
Physics	8.4 LPA – 10 LPA

IIT Madras Top Recruiters 

Given below is list of top recruiters during the 2018-2019 placement –

1. Microsoft
2. General Electric
3. Citibank
4. Ernst & Young
5. EXL Analytics
6. Flipkart
7. Intel
8. Mahindra & Mahindra Limited
9. American Express
10. HCL technologies
11. Rivigo Services Pvt. Ltd.
12. CSS Corp
13. ANI Technologies
14. Myntra
15. Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
16. Tata Steel

Out of these major recruiters, 22 job offers were made by Microsoft, whereas Intel made 26 job offers. American Express offered 13 job offers whereas Flipkart offered 16 job offers.

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