The KIIT has been achieving cent per cent placement since its inception. The excellent placement for the 2014 batch of students has once again proved that the KIIT continues to be one of the most favoured talent hunting grounds for the corporate world.
The KIIT has achieved cent per cent placement for its 2014 passing out students.
About 90 per cent of the total 2,101 registered students of the 2014 passing out batch in various schools of the KIIT University are already placed.
As many as 191 companies and organisations participated in the campus placement process in six schools, schools of engineering, school of computer application, school of rural management, school of biotechnology, school of management and school of law.
The schools of engineering (BTech programme), which accounts for 78 per cent of the total registered students of the university, recorded 93 per cent placement. The school of rural management and school of biotechnology achieved 100 per cent and 83 per cent placement respectively.
The school of management and school of law registered 92 per cent and 68 per cent placement respectively. The school of computer application achieved 51 per cent placement for its MCA students.
Many students are likely to join reputed national and international institutions for higher studies. last year, more than 300 students of the schools of engineering had been academically placed.
Students were successful in GATE, CAT and other competitive examinations and took admission in IIMs and other reputed national and international institutions.
There is a wave of joy among young graduates of the university not only because of job offers but also because salary packages offered this year are higher than previous years.
Daelim, a leading engineering and construction company in the world, offered the highest salary of Rs23.04 lakh per annum to Bitan Ghosh, a BTech (Civil) student.
Similarly, Rs12 lakh was offered by Amazon in school of engineering, while the average package across the board was Rs4.2 lakh.
like last many years, TCS doled out a maximum of 523 job offers in the schools of engineering.
Other regular visitors like wipro, infosys, capgemini and UST Global offered more than 50 jobs each.
There was an encouraging participation by core companies like Tata Steel, Shapoorji Pallonji, Jindal Steel, Tayo Rolls, Tata Power, TAFE, ARSS, Murugappa Group, Quality International and Enercon as well as international multinational companies.