(The IIT placement is part of a series by The Indian Express where we bring to you the five-year placement record of a course offered by a top engineering college. This will help JEE aspirants choose course/IIT of their choice.) In the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati placements for the 2022-23 academic year, 218 PPOs were received, which was the highest in the last four years. The highest pre placement offer received in 2022 was Rs 1.20 crore, which has been boasted as an all-time high by the institute. Phase 1 of placements recorded 919 offers with the highest offer of Rs 2.4 crore. Placement packages The average CTC for students of BTech in Mechanical Engineering in the previous four years is 17 LPA and this year’s average CTC is 19 LPA. The second phase of placement is still ongoing. Typically, the highest package for students of BTech in Mechanical Engineering is above 39 LPA, and this year’s highest package is 45 LPA. Graph of five years (ME) The average salary of the BTech in the Mechanical Engineering department has seen a decrease from Rs 20 lakh per annum in 2021 to Rs 19 lakh per annum in 2022. In addition to this, the total number of offers and the percentage of placed students, too, decreased from 85 to 81 (for both categories). In 2021, however, the average salary had increased massively from Rs 16 lakh per annum in 2020 to Rs 20 lakh per annum. The total number of offers had gone up from 82 to 85, in addition to an increase from 71 to 89 for the total number of students. Overall placements Most of the registered students of BTech in Mechanical Engineering are placed with an average of placed students above 84 per centin the last five years despite an increase in the annual intake of students. The number of registered students of BTech in Mechanical Engineering has increased from 67 to 101 in the previous five years. The average CTC for students of BTech in Mechanical Engineering in the previous four years is 17 LPA and this year’s average CTC is 19 LPA. The second phase of placement is still ongoing. Typically, the highest package for students of BTech in Mechanical Engineering is above 39 LPA, and this year’s highest package is 45 LPA. Top recruiters The students of BTech in Mechanical Engineering are recruited in diverse sectors starting from core, technical and other Non-technical. Almost most of the top recruiters from India and abroad participate and hire students from IIT Guwahati. A few core recruiters include Reliance Industries Limited, Bajaj Auto Ltd, Sterlite Tech, Mercedes, Cummins Inc, Schlumberger and Oil India Limited. Remarkably, many MNCs are open to other branches as well due to the kind of academic training of IIT Guwahati students, for example, Amazon, Nutanix, Adobe, Goldman Sachs, Accenture, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Rakuten, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo and Fractal Analytics. About IIT Guwahati Established in 1994, the institute has retained the 7th position among the best engineering institutions in the country and the eighth position in the ‘overall’ category in the ‘India Rankings 2022’ declared by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Union Ministry of Education. As per the IIT, it is the only academic institution in India that occupied a place among the top 100 world universities — under 50 years of age — ranked by London-based Times Higher Education (THE) in 2014 and continues to maintain its superior position even today in various international rankings. IIT Guwahati gained a rank 37 globally in the ‘Research Citations per Faculty’ category and an overall 384 rank in the QS World University Rankings 2023 released recently.
