IIT-Patna Placements: Average salary, offers increase despite Covid pandemic

IIT Patna is one of the newer addition to IITs, but even then the institute has managed to stay consistent in its placement seasons in the past few years. Check the institute's performance here.

The number of companies that visited the IIT Patna campus for placements has also increased in the past few years. (Representative image. Source: Twitter- @IITPAT)

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The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna is one of the new IITs established by an Act of the Indian Parliament on August 6, 2008. In all these years, the institute has seen a good growth in the placement statistics. What started as 83 offers in BTech 2012-13 placement seasons, has jumped to 239 offers in the 2020-21 academic session.

In 2017-18, the total number of BTech offers were 192, which increased to 210 in 2018-19, but dipped to 202 in 2019-20. However, this was the only dip the institute has observed in the past five placement batches. The total number of offers increased from 202 in 2019-20 to 239 in 2020-21 and then jumped drastically to 412 to 2021-22.

IIT Patna placements in BTech in past 5 years.

(Graphics by Angshuman Maity)

Similarly, the average salary also increased from Rs 11.12 lakh per annum in 2017-18 to Rs 13.05 lakh per annum in 2018-19 and then to Rs 14.76 lakh per annum in 2019-20. While several institutes around the world saw a decline in the number of offers and average salary, the same was not observed in IIT Patna. The average salary increased to Rs 17.13 lakh per annum in 2020-21 and even saw a major increase to Rs 28.86 lakh per annum in 2021-22 despite the Covid-19 slowdown across all industries.

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The number of companies that visited the campus for placements has also increased in the past few years. The number increased from 88 in 2017-18 to 95 in 2018-19, 1-6 in 2019-20, 125 in 2020-21 and then jumped to 154 in 2021-22.

In 2022, there were 154 companies that participated, which included some of the big names such as Accenture Japan, Adani Power, Amazon Berlin, Amazon India, Amazon Luxembourg, Deloitte, Darwinbox, Flipkart, FIIT-JEE, Bajaj Auto, Bloomberg Pune, Bosch, BPCL, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Gameskraft, Goldman Sach, Google (from London and Munich too), HDFC, Housing.com, ICICI Bank, Indeed, Inframart, Intel, Ixigo, Oracle, Paytm, Oyorooms, Mahindra and Mahindra, Mercedes Benz, Microsoft Research, Morgan Stanley, RBL Bank, Qualcomm, Samsung (from Bengaluru and Noida), Sprinklr, Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. Ltd., Synopsys, Tata Advance, Tata Digital, Tata Electronics, TVS Digital, Udaan, Uber, Unacademy, Urban Company, Viacom, Wipro, Zomato, ZS Associate, Infosys, and more.

About IIT Patna

IIT Patna has ten departments: These are Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Humanities & Social Science departments.

(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 the course /IIT of their choice.)

Deeksha Teri

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