This is an archive article published on July 19, 2023

IIT Madras Placements (Biotechnology): Highest and average CTC, total offers in past 5 years

The placement trends in Biotechnology have seen many ups and downs in the last few years. The average salary of IIT Madras Biotechnology department has gone up from Rs 11.6 lakh per annum in 2017-18 to Rs 16.96 lakh per annum in the 2021-2022.

IIT Madras: Placement of biotechnology department

The placement trends in Biotechnology have seen many ups and downs in the last few years. ( Image credit : iitm.ac.in)

3 min readNew DelhiJul 20, 2023 09:48 AM IST First published on: Jul 19, 2023 at 10:11 AM IST

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras established the Biotechnology department in 2004. According to 2021 data of the institute, the Biotechnology department has 4 major domains: Biological Sciences, Biomolecular Sciences, Computational Biology, and Biological Engineering.

The institute has a regular faculty of 33 members. The department hosts nearly 330 UG students in dual degree programmes, 60 masters level students (MTech/MS), 200 doctoral scholars (PhD), 30 postdoctoral scholars and project staff and 13 technical and administrative staff.

This IIT-Madras’s department also offers two integrated dual degree programmes, Master of Science (MS) by research, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) programmes with an MTech Clinical Engineering which is also a multi institutional programme and MTech program Bioprocess Engineering.