The International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bhubaneswar, a State-run premier institute, has achieved 91% placements of its pass-outs in 2019-20.
The institute has maintained a high placement record of 90 to 94% in last five years. This was known from Board of Governors ( BoG) meeting held throuhg digital media under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy. Independent Directors from different parts of counry participated in the meeting.
Tripathy directed the institute to work out the ‘way forward’ for scaling research and specialisation eco-system in the institute. Tripathy directed that the ‘way forward’ should contain short term, medium term and long term objectives with broad timelines.
Placing the updates IIIT Director Prof Gopal Nayak said, “The institute is successfully running the innovative methodologies like self learning course, self development course and coding competition.”
Registrar Prof Ajit Kumar Das appraised, “A five-member team of the IIIT occupied the top ranck in the Google Online Marketing Challenge of the current year. Thousands of teams consisting over 1,00,000 students from 100 countries participated in the challenge.”
Presently, the institute is providing consultancy to Government in nine different projects.
Twenty-six flontline companies like Microsoft, McKinsey, Visa, Dell, Turtlement and Amazon had made the campus selection. The pass-outs have been offered appointment on an average scale of Rs 4.85 lakh. The maximum salary offer from a company has been Rs 41 lakhs per year.