Though it is pandemic times, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) emerged as the Top Educational Institution in India by having 7403 job offers rolled out by 382 companies that conducted campus recruitments at VIT. All the campus recruitments were conducted virtually and 4503 students have taken multiple offers.
IT majors Cognizant, Infosys and TCS have conducted their annual campus recruitment process at VIT. This year, due to the pandemic, all the three companies have conducted their entire process remotely. Students from all the 4 campuses of VIT (Vellore, Chennai, Amaravati and Bhopal) participated in the selection process.
The results were announced by Dr G Viswanathan, Chancellor of VIT and 3517 job offers were rolled out by these three companies with Cognizant offering 1418 students followed by TCS (1321) and Infosys (778). These are the highest numbers offered by these companies this year across all the campuses in the country. The other IT services companies like Virtusa, Hexaware, CapGemini and Mindtree have also recruited in big numbers from VIT.
Earlier, TCS has recruited 224 students for its Digital Practice with a CTC of `7 lakh per annum followed by Wipro hiring 419 students for its Turbo hiring with a CTC of `6.5 lakh per year for a higher position. Again these are the highest numbers for TCS and Wipro for this year across all the campuses in the country. Wipro and VIT broke their own record by having 419 offers from the 2021 graduating batch. VIT has already entered into Limca Book of Records 10 times for highest number of placements.