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4.5
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4.8
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Aaryan Mehar | B.S. in Economics - Batch of 2022
Reviewed on 11 Oct 2020
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5.0
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
Our college creates masterminds.

Placements: Students are offered the role of the analyst in reputed companies like American Express, and some financial jobs too. Most importantly, this branch helps you in UPSC preparation. Almost the entire batch 2016 of economics was placed during placement. In IITK economics is one of the best branches in terms of placements.

Infrastructure: The quality of the facilities provided is top-notch in terms of feasibility and accessibility. Although I would say that the quality of the food served in the mess is not up to the ...

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ANSHIT ARYA | B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering - Batch of 2023
Reviewed on 11 Oct 2020
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4.4
Placements 5 Infrastructure 4 Faculty & Course Curriculum 4 Crowd & Campus Life 4 Value for Money 5
I am satisfied with the course.

Placements: The highest salary package offered is around 1.5 crore per annum, the minimum salary package offered is around 10 LPA and the average salary package offered is around 25 LPA. Almost 50% of the students got an internship opportunity in our course. Almost all students got placed in this course. Top recruiting companies are Google, Facebook, Adobe, Oyo and Quadeye.

Infrastructure: Free Wi-Fi with sufficient speed is available, and there are many computer labs and a library. Mess food is good enough to eat. Many dif...

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Ridham Jain | B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering - Batch of 2023
Reviewed on 11 Oct 2020
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5.0
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
You will never regret taking admission in IIT Kanpur whatever the branch may be.

Placements: The placements are excellent. Almost all students who sit for internships or final placement get good jobs according to there resume. The highest package goes up to 25 Lacs\annum whereas average ranges from 12-15 Lacs. Mostly students go for the HR job in core companies and also some go for data analyst profiles in coding companies. Big companies like Hindustan Unilever comes to campus every year and pick some great students.

Infrastructure: Since its one of the most prestigious institute of India, you will get ...

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Varad Sharma | B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering - Batch of 2021
Reviewed on 22 Jul 2020
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4.4
Placements 5 Infrastructure 4 Faculty & Course Curriculum 3 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
Freedom blended with a memorable campus life and heavy academics.

Placements: About 70% got placed in last placement season, this means that rest 30% went for higher studies. ITC, HUL, Mitsubishi are the main companies in Chemical sector. 50% got their internship in 3rd year. Average package is around 13L though it heavily depends on which sector are you in, around 80% opt for non core sector like software development or consultancy services.

Infrastructure: Unlimited Wi-Fi in whole campus. Food is good when compared to other colleges. Then you get free access to all the books in librar...

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indrani nekkili | B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering - Batch of 2022
Reviewed on 25 Jun 2020
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4.8
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 4 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
Our college is very good.

Placements: Most of the students from our course get placed. The highest salary package offered is 1 crore per annum. Most of the students from our course get placement and internship. Every year about 250-300 companies visit our college for internship and placements. Many international companies like Microsoft visit our college for placements.

Infrastructure: Facilities and infrastructure available in our department are pretty good. The quality of the facilities in the hostel is good. The quality of food is served in the m...

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Sanchita Goyal | B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering - Batch of 2014
Reviewed on 21 Jun 2020
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5.0
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
Best college and among top institutes of India.

Placements: Placements are perfect. Each and every student got offers from companies and the highest package goes is 50 Lacs and the lowest is 4 Lacs. The internships are provided to all students and some of them preparing for higher level competitive exams.

Infrastructure: The infrastructure is classic and very big campus. There are separate residence for students as well as for teachers there are quarters also. Hostels are well maintained and each hostel has their separate mess and food quality is excellent. Wi-Fi is ava...

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Nishant Trivedi | B.S. in Mathematics and Scientific Computing - Batch of 2023
Reviewed on 3 Jun 2020
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5.0
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
Review of IIT Kanpur - Indian Institute of Technology.

Placements: Mathematics and scientific computing is one of the top branches of IIT Kanpur. It has 100% placements from the past few years. In 2019 batch, the highest salary package offered was 72 LPA within India and 1.5 crores per annum in abroad. Things like average salary package offered, etc., are always confidential for students, but I think the average salary package offered for mathematics and scientific computing department approximately ranges from 13 LPA-15 LPA. Top roles in this branch are offere...

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Rakesh Kumar Parewa | B.S. in Economics - Batch of 2022
Reviewed on 25 Apr 2020
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4.8
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 4 Value for Money 5
IIT Kanpur is India's top 5th institute. Culture and college life at IIT Kanpur are amazing.

Placements: Above 90% of the students get placed every year from our college. The highest salary package offered by companies in India is 45 LPA and 1 crore per annum in foreign, while the lowest salary package offered is 5 LPA-6 LPA. Recruitment companies for our college are Amazon, Infosys, Facebook, Reliance, Flipkart, Apple, etc. The placement session is conducted in December and summer.

Infrastructure: Hostel facilities are good here, and high-speed and unlimited internet facility is available. There is a machine to fi...

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Vivek Goyal | B.S. in Economics - Batch of 2022
Reviewed on 15 Feb 2020
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4.8
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 4 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
Really good facilities and infrastructure.

Placements: The placements for economics at IITK is great. The percentage of students placed generally stands third overall only after CSE and EE. The avg. Package is around 15-18 LPA and the main profiles for which companies visit are analytics, consulting, investment banking, algorithmic trading, etc.

Infrastructure: The hostels are great with a good mess that provides an above average quality of food as it is controlled by students only. Also the department and other general institute facilities are great including labs,...

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Anil Kumar Anuragi | B.S. in Earth Science - Batch of 2021
Reviewed on 8 Feb 2020
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4.0
Placements 4 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 4 Crowd & Campus Life 4 Value for Money 3
Satisfied with faculty, good infrastructure and facilities. This is a new department in IITK.

Placements: I have not completed my degree yet. I am in the 3rd year. I know there are no companies for earth science (BS) department. There is no salary package for earth science (BS) course. Only one student got an internship in Axis Bank. There are many opportunities in earth science department after MS programme in earth science department.

Infrastructure: There are very good facilities for this course. There are many labs related to this course and most of the work we do practically on software as well. There are air-c...

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Mubashshir Uddin | B.S. in Physics - Batch of 2023
Reviewed on 3 Feb 2020
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4.8
Placements 4 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Inside-Out

Placements: 85% of all students who applied to the students placement office got placed in the first round of placement. placement was higher in bachelors than masters, But masters placement has improved over last few years. The top placement branches were of course CSE and EE, but the highest placement of 1.56 crore CTC was grabbed by a CE student. Many of the famous recruiters came to the campus some of which were Microsoft, QUALCOMM, INTEL, Google, and snapdragon. The average package was sort of 8-9 LPA ...

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Vinay Duli | B.Tech. in Civil Engineering - Batch of 2018
Reviewed on 31 Jan 2020
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4.6
Placements 4 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 4 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
IIT Kanpur - A destination to overall Development of a Student.

Placements: 1. Around 80% of students are placed in my batch 2. The highest salary is 1.38 crore, Average is 11 LPA, the lowest is 5.6 LPA 3. Intel, Microsoft, American express recruited the students. 4. Software developer, App Development, Data Analyst, Data Scientist roles were offered. 5. The highest salary: 10lpa Average: 7lpa lowest:5.7 LPA was offered to our course. 6. Around 60% of students got internship.

Infrastructure: The campus is located in 1039 acres with the 60 years old library. For civil engineering departm...

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Praveen kumar | B.Tech. in Biological Science and Bioengineering - Batch of 2023
Reviewed on 26 Jan 2020
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4.6
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 4 Value for Money 4
Professors in our college are always helpful if you are curious to learn or try for placements.

Placements: The first semester of the course is much related to JEE level. But some courses are in-depth like MTH101A, PHY103A in which every student cram throughout the semester. All other courses are the same for all first-year students in all IITs. Internships provided are very good at IITK as every student who tries for internships get them in some good firms and companies. As I am the volunteer of SPO (students placements office of IITK ), the average salary package offered here is much better than oth...

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Gembali Sai chait ... | M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering - Batch of 2021
Reviewed on 25 Jan 2020
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5.0
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
A good campus for students.

Placements: 80 percent of people placed this year. In M.Tech mechanical Bajaj, BUTTERFLY, rolls Royce, HSBC, Tata motors are the companies came this year and maximum package was 16lpa and minimum was 8 LPA. 60 percent of students got internships in various companies and top roles offered are design and thermal engineer.

Infrastructure: Facilities and infrastructure of classrooms, labs are very good and Wi-Fi spped is about 20 Mbps in my hostel. Quality of food in canteen and mess are very good. Sports and game activities ...

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Adarsha Mandal | M.Sc. in Chemistry - Batch of 2020
Reviewed on 22 Dec 2019
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4.6
Placements 3 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
Over all this is the no1 place in our country in chemistry.

Placements: There are no placement for M.Sc. students in our department because only coaching center is offering the job with low salary package. So students are not interested in it. Maximum student in our department are willing to do Ph.D. so they do not join in the industry.

Infrastructure: 1. College facilities are very good. Free unlimited high-speed Wi-Fi. The lab are also very good. We have modern instrument in our lab. Very good Research work in done in our lab. Library is very big and having all types of book. 2...

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Anshuman Das | B.Tech. in Aerospace Engineering - Batch of 2022
Reviewed on 22 Sep 2019
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5.0
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
Ideal place to chase your dreams (Provided you have one :) ).

Placements: My batch of Aerospace Engineers will be passing out in April, 2022. Last time I checked 85% of students sitting in placements GOT placed. In core jobs people work at positions as high as scientists in ISRO and many more. The highest salary goes up to 50 Lacs per year in core jobs and even more for non core jobs. The lowest salary packages are roughly around 6 Lacs per year, and the median salary goes around 10 Lacs. The top recruiting companies of the course are Airbus, Jaguar, Mathworks, Gener...

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Prakhar Srivastava | B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering - Batch of 2021
Reviewed on 20 Sep 2019
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5.0
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
I'm satisfied due to faculty, good placements in 2018, impressed by facilities and infrastructure.

Placements: About 60% of the students from our course got placed. The highest salary package offered is 1.5 crores per annum, and the average salary package of 50 LPA and the lowest salary package of 12 LPA are offered. Hindustan Unilever is the top recruiter. About 60% of the students got internships, and companies like Hindustan Unilever, etc., offer internships.

Infrastructure: Facilities and infrastructure available in our department are well developed. We are provided with good Wi-Fi facility, spacious classrooms, 24 ...

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YOGENDRA VYAS | M.Tech. in Industrial and Management Engineering - Batch of 2020
Reviewed on 12 Sep 2019
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4.4
Placements 4 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 3 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
There are good placements and excellent infrastructure with a lot of facilities.

Placements: Almost 100% placements were there for 2019 batch. The highest salary package offered was 16 LPA. The lowest salary package offered was 8 LPA. Mastercard, VISA, HSBC, Accenture, Myntra, are the top recruiting companies. Roles of a product manager and data scientist are offered. The highest salary package offered in our course was 16 LPA. The lowest salary package offered in our course was 8 LPA. The average salary package offered in our course was 11 LPA. Almost 100% of students got summer inter...

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Raja Null | B.Tech. in Civil Engineering - Batch of 2021
Reviewed on 8 Sep 2019
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5.0
Placements 5 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
I am absolutely satisfied with IITK.

Placements: Students those who attended for placements got placed. Few students go for core jobs because mainly they prefer software development, consultancy or prepare for central government jobs. After completion of the internships, many students get PPOs from those companies.

Infrastructure: We have adequate facilities and infrastructure with Wi-Fi facility throughout the campus and appropriate lab equipment to perform experiments. Each hostel has its own canteen, which opens from 2 pm to 2 am. The mess food has good qua...

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Priyakhee Kachari | B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering - Batch of 2021
Reviewed on 5 Sep 2019
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4.8
Placements 4 Infrastructure 5 Faculty & Course Curriculum 5 Crowd & Campus Life 5 Value for Money 5
Quite satisfied with the course.

Placements: In past about 80% UG placed in mechanical department. Students can seat for either core or non core profiles. Average package offered may be around 6-10 Lacs per annum. Hindustan Unilever limited, Tata motors, Goldman sachs, Bosch, HSBC-global, etc.

Infrastructure: Some of the facilities that the institute provides are free Wi-Fi, digital air conditioned class room, huge library, labs for hands on experiences. All kind of sports and games are available for the campus community like swimming, basketball, TT, squa...

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