Rise in pre-placement offers at IIT-Madras, most jobs from research sector

Internships, said the institute, resulted in higher PPOs. From next year, MTech students from IIT-Madras will also undergo internship process. This year, most of the pre-placement offers were made by Qualcomm - an America-based firm.

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The number of students who received pre-placement offers has increased, from 135 to 158. (Representational Image)Students of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras have received more pre-placement offers (PPO) than previous years. While last year, the number of students who received PPOs was 135, it has increased to 158 this year. Along with the PPOs, the number of offers made as well as the number of students placed has also increased in this year’s placement season at the institute. However, there has been a decline in the number of companies registering to hire at the IIT.

Most offers in the PPOs were made from core and research and development sector with a total of 41 per cent students getting offers in the area. This was followed by analytics, consulting, and finance sector from were 25 per cent of the total offers were made. A similar trend in hiring is expected to be seen in the placement season.

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Most offers were made by Qualcomm – an America-based multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company. A total of 23 students got offers from the firm before the placements began this year.

A total of 1,334 students have registered to participate in the placement drive. In the phase-I a total of 170 companies will be visiting the campus, of the total of 54 will be startups.

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Prof. Ravi Kumar, advisor (internships), IIT-Madras, highlighted that the rise in PPOs is the result of internships. “Since the creation of the internship cell in 2014 the number of PPOs has continuously increased. It is obvious that internship provides an opportunity for both the employers and the students to know each, understand the requirements and if companies do feel good about the students who worked as interns, they are likely to be offered PPOs the following year,” he said.

He further added, “From this year, we have extended the services of the internship cell to MTech students as well and the process has been formalised. The entire internship team did a wonderful job in achieving this.”