IIT Palakkad Placements 2026: Highest Package, Average Package, Top Recruiters

The number of companies participated during IIT Palakkad placements over the past three years is presented below:

Yes, IIT Palakkad offers good placements for CSE branch students. The key highlights of IIT Palakkad BTech CSE placements 2024 are presented below:

According to IIT Palakkad internship report 2023, a company named Sprinklr offered monthly stipend of INR 2 Lacs during IIT Palakkad internships 2023. Further, UST Global made 24 internship offers whereas Webstaff made international offers to two students during IIT Palakkad internships 2023. The course-wise internship offers made during IIT Palakkad internships 2023 is presented below:

International companies such as Accenture Japan and Webstaff visited the campus and ICICI Bank made the 20 offers (maximum by any company) during IIT Palakkad placements 2023. Further, a total of 206 full time offers and 38 PPOs were made during IIT Palakkad placements 2023. Further, a fluctuating and improving trend was witnessed in the number of full time offers and PPOs made over the past three years during IIT Palakkad placements, which is presented below:

The trends witnessed during IIT Palakkad placements over the past three years with respect to the full time offers and PPOs made are presented below:

According to data gathered from unofficial sources, Engineering sector has placed the most number of IIT Palakkad students. The sector-wise IIT Palakkad alumni placement statistics are presented below:

Note: The “Others” category includes the sectors of Business Development, Operations, Administrative, Consulting, Media and Communication, Arts and Design, Sales, Human Resources, Customer Success and Support, Marketing and Product Management.

The above-mentioned alumni data is gathered from unofficial sources and hence may vary.

IT sector emerged as the top recruiting sector that placed 63% of the total students during IIT Palakkad internships 2023. The sector-wise internship offer distribution recorded during IIT Palakkad internships 2023 is presented below:

The sector-wise internship offer distribution recorded during IIT Palakkad internships 2023 is presented below:

The Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad is a good choice among Engineering institutes with verified Shiksha Review praising it for its:

• Placements: 70-80% of students received placements with average packages of INR 15 LPA - INR 17 LPA (Jatoth Akhil - B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering - Batch of 2027).
• Infrastructure: Each Branch of BTech have their own building and labs while classrooms are equipped with digital screens & projectors (Anonymous - B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering - Batch of 2028).
• Faculty: Students are taught a comprehensive foundation of the technologies from the fundamentals, further frequent assessments are held at the institute (Anonymous - 
  B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering - Batch of 2027).

No, MSc at IIT Palakkad is not very costly. The total tuition fee of MSc at IIT Palakkad is INR 12,000. Candidates need to pay the course fee to confirm their seat. This number is taken from the official sources. It can change.

Yes if your rank 540 you can secure seat in most engineering programs of IIT Palakkad.

Computer Science and Engineering: 6199

- Data Science and Engineering: The cutoff was around 8084.
- Electrical Engineering: The cutoff was about 9766.
- Civil Engineering: The cutoff was as high as 16487.

Candidates were able to make choices during JoSAA counselling till June 11.

To get admission in IIT Palakkad candidates must follow the admission process as per the institution's admission guidelines. IIT Palakkad admission is completely entrance-based for all the courses offered by the institute. IIT Dharwad offers BTech (integrated course) at the undergraduate level. MTech/ MSc at postgrauate level and PhD / MS at doctoral level. Candidates must follow the admission procedure of IIT Palakkad: 

Step 1: IIT Palakkad Application Process

IIT Palakkad conducts the application process for admission to its offered courses. However, for a few course candidates are required to complete the entrance exam's registration/application process.

• BTech and BS aspirants must fill out the application form for JEE (Main) via the official website of the National Testing Agency (NTA) (nta.ac.in). Read more
• MTech candidates must register for GATE via the official website of GATE Online Application Processing System (GOAPS) (appsgate.iitd.ac.in). Read more
• MSc candidates must register for the Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM). Admission to each of the MSc courses will be offered to those who qualified in the exams and appear for the JAM counselling process.
• For PhD and MSstudents are required to apply via the official website of IIT Palakkad. Candidates must register and fill out the application form online.

Step 2: IIT Palakkad Selection Process

Candidates are shortlisted based on their qualifications. Next candidates are required to go through the selection process which requires candidates to go through the course-based entrance exam followed by other selection rounds (if applicable). After the selection rounds are completed, they are required to go through the course-wise counselling process for final seat allocation. For PhD and MS, IIT Palakkad conducts its own written test and personal interview for selection.

Step 3: IIT Palakkad seat allocation

Seat allocation for BTech is conducted by the JoSAA (Joint Seat Allocation Authority) counseling plays a crucial role in the final selection process, as it facilitates the allocation of seats in the BTech programme at IIT Palakkad. For M.Tech candidates must participate in the GATE counselling for seat allocation. And for MSc JAM counselling is accepted.

Step 4: IIT Palakkad Final Admission

Once the seats are allocated, applicants who are selected can submit the admission charges and confirm their admission to the relevant course at IIT Bombay. Candidates might have to visit the institute's admission office to verify the documents.

To apply for admission at IIT Palakkad flaship programme BTech, candidates must register themseleves in the officail website of JEE Main, JEE Advanced and JoSAA. Admission is based on the entrance exams and counselling process. Therefore, candidates are required to register on the official website of the entrance exam and the counselling bodies. 

• For BTech programmme admissionis based on JEE Main, JEE Advanced scores followed by JoSAA Counselling. In order to apply for BTech at IIT Palakkad, students are required to apply via JEE Main followed by JEE Advanced application.

1. Open the official website (jeemain.nta.nic.in) and click on the ‘Registration for JEE (Main) 2024’ link.
2. Fill the registration form with the required information followed by clicking on the 'submit' button.
3. Fill out the detailed application form and upload scanned images and documents.
4. Pay the application fees.

To apply in the doctoral cousres candidates can follow the below mentioned steps:

• Kindly go through the information brochure before applying to this portal.
• Create an account in the portal.
• Please check your email for the welcome email. 
• Log in with your email and password.
• Click on "Programs" > Choose "MS" or “PhD”.
• Click the "Apply" button against the MS/PhD programme that you wish to apply.
• Fill personal details.
• Create Academic Bank of Credits (ABC) ID 
• Fill qualification details. 
• Enter the details of your GATE/UGC-NET/Other National Level Test scores
• Upload the required documents. If you do not possess a valid category Certificate (due to current situation),   please fill the enclosed undertaking and upload the same in PDF format

The application process for IIT Palakkad admissions is as shown here:

1. Register for required entrance exams through the portal such as  (jeemain.nta.nic.in).
2. Register as an applicant, filling the form, submitting documents and paying application fees.
3. Appear for the exam then go for counselling.
4. Select IIT Palakkad as preferred institute.

Students must also upload the required documents and pay application fees for smooth admissions.

IIT Palakkad cutoff 2026 was released for round 1 regarding MSc course admission. The cutoff was published for various All India quota categories. 

For the General AI category, the first round cutoff ranged from 614 to 665. To know the IIT Palakkad category-wise cutoff 2026, students can refer to the table below. 

IIT Palakkad takes admission into the BTech programme primarily based on the score and rank of JEE Main and JEE Advance. But, only the candidates who score at least 75% in Class 12 are eligible to sppear for JEE Advance. Hence, Candidates with 68% in Class 12 cannot take admission in BTech at IIT Palakkad.

Admissions to the different BTech, M.Tech and MSc courses of Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad will depend on entrance exam scores such as JEE Mains, GATE, etc. But it is difficult to say whether getting into IIT Palakkad is tough or easy and will depend on the:

• Candidate's level of preparation
• Competition
• Available seats
• Exam Difficulty

As well as a number of other factors that will not be discussed here. 

During the Round 1 admission, the IIT Palakkad cutoff 2026 stood at 11591. Therefore, the possibility is higher that you will get admission to IIT Palakkad for BTech in Mechanical Engineering, with a JEE Advanced cutoff rank of 5000. This rank is for General category. 

Getting admission into IIT Palakkad is quite competitive. The college accepts score of national-level entrance exam followed by respective counselling. Check below the entrance exam required for respective courses:

• BTech: JEE Main and Advance 
• MTech: GATE 
• MSc: IIT JAM 

There are no separate application fees for Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad admissions though students must pay a registration fee of INR 300 up enrollment after admissions. Students must also pay the required entrance exam's own separate registration fees to the conducting body.

IIT Palakkad CSE cutoff 2026 varies by round and category. For Round 1 admission, the opening and closing ranks for BTech in CSE were 4760 and 6556, respectively, in the General category. 

For Female-only (including Supernumerary) seats, the opening and closing ranks for CSE admission were 9655 and 11396, respectively.