A record 93 percent of the students belonging to different schools of the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) were recruited by companies during the process of campus recruitment of the University for 2017-18. A total of 1789 students of ‘School of Engineering’, ‘School of Computer Science’, ‘School of Design’, ‘School of law’ and ‘School of Business’ were recruited by industrial houses.
The university claimed that over 400 reputed companies like Amazon, Accenture, Aditya Birla, Bombardier Capgemini, Belcopters, CA Technologies, Commvault, Dell, Denso, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, FedEx, Flipkart, Flutura, Fluor Daniel, General Motors, Honda Cars, HSBC, HCl, IBM, Infosys, Jubilant life Sciences, KPMG, KPIT, TATA, Royal Enfield, Reliance, Siemens and Shell India recruited the students.
Commenting on UPES placements drive, the Senior Director-Corporate Relations, UPES, Alka Madhan, said, “This is the third consecutive year of UPES with placement track record of above 90 %. The quality and number of organisations recruiting UPES students each year validates our approach of developing industry-aligned and future-ready professionals”.
The Senior Director - Public Affairs Arun Dhand stated that over the past years UPES has undertaken several unique steps to improve the employability factor of students and preparing them to take on the current/future jobs as agile professionals.
Elaborating on three key initiatives by UPES that resulted in encouraging outcomes on the placement front, Dhand attributed it on ‘Industry-Academia Collaborations’ and the focused approach of the university on the ‘Personality Enhancement and Professional Assessment’ through creation of several tools facilitating holistic development and multi-dimensional growth of students.