Kolkata: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kharagpur has recorded the highest placement offers in the institute’s history with the maximum packages ranging between Rs 2 crore and 2.40 crore per annum.
“Despite the ongoing pandemic situation, IIT-Kharagpur bagged extraordinary numbers of Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs), which is the highest number among all the other top higher academic institutes in India,” the institute was quoted as saying in a statement on Saturday. IIT-Kharagpur recorded over 1,100 placement offers.
The students received 35 international offers. Two bigger offers came from two lead recruiters with packages at Rs 2-2.4 crore per annum, the statement said. “Till now, we got more than 20 offers in the scale of Rs 1 crore,” said the institute.
Qualcomm, Microsoft, Google, Uber, Intel, American Express, Honeywell, Samsung and IBM were among the recruiters in the three-day placement drive that concluded on Friday.
According to IIT-Kharagpur spokesperson, more than 100 companies across all sectors — software, analytics, consulting, core engineering, banking, finance — participated in the recruitment process.
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