by Prashant Kapadia /NHN
GUWAHATI, 3rd December 2021: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati has seen a huge jump in terms of the number of offers made by the end of day two, profiles open, companies’ participation, domestic and international packages, and even in terms of a total number of international offers.
This year IIT Guwahati has the highest number of international offers ever, highest international package ever, highest domestic packages ever, and highest PPOs ever.
The total number of PPOs this year is 179 while it was 133 in 2020 which is a 34.5% increase. Offers made till the end of the second day of the placement are 530 which is 50.14% higher than the previous year when this number was 353. In total, there are 28 international offers so far while there were a total of 4 offers in the previous year. The highest domestic package has been 1.2 crore which is 70% higher than the 70 lakhs of 2020. Further, the highest international offer is secured by PG students of IIT Guwahati. The highest international offer this year is 2.05 crore much higher than 36 lakhs in 2020.
This year the entire placement process in IIT Guwahati is happening in completely virtual mode. Last year, only the coordinating committee members were physically present on the campus while the volunteers were connected virtually. This year, the entire coordinating committee and a majority of the volunteers are present on the campus to coordinate the entire placement process. The students (either on-campus or off-campus) participating in the campus placement in virtual mode.
ABOUT IIT GUWAHATI: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati established in 1994 has completed 25 years of glorious existence in 2019. At present, the Institute has eleven departments, five inter-disciplinary academic centres and four schools covering all the major engineering, science and humanities disciplines, offering BTech, BDes, MA, MDes, MTech, MSc and PhD programmes. The institute offers a residential campus to 430 faculty members and more than 7,000 students at present. Besides its laurels in teaching and research, IIT Guwahati has been able to fulfil the aspirations of people of the North East region to a great extent since its inception in 1994. The picturesque campus is on a sprawling 285 hectares plot on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, around 20 kms from the heart of the Guwahati city.
IIT Guwahati is the only academic institution in India that occupied a place among the top 100 world universities – under 50 years of age – ranked by the London-based Times Higher Education (THE) in the year 2014 and continues to maintain its superior position even today in various International Rankings. IIT Guwahati gained rank 41 globally in the ‘Research Citations per Faculty’ category and overall 395 rank in the QS World University Rankings 2022 released recently.
IIT Guwahati has retained the 7th position among the best engineering institutions of the country in the ‘India Rankings 2019’ declared by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Union ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD). IIT Guwahati has been also ranked 2nd in the ‘Swachhata Ranking’ conducted by the Govt. of India. Recently, IIT Guwahati has been ranked as the top ranked University in 2019 for IT developers by HackerRank in the Asia-Pacific region.
Among other frontier areas of research and innovation, IIT Guwahati is working towards augmenting critical science research initiatives in Genomics, Developmental Biology, Health Care and Bioinformatics, Flexible Electronics, Advanced Functional Materials, Sustainable Polymers, Rural Technologies, Disaster Resilience and Risk Reduction, and Water Resources and Management. In its silver jubilee year, IIT Guwahati is poised to scale newer heights through all round growth and development.
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