Chandigarh University Placements 2021: Students receive more than 5000 recruitment offers

The average salary package offered to the students of Engineering has touched 8 LPA while that in the case of MBA students it has touched 7 LPA.

Chandigarh University Placements 2021: Chandigarh University managed to gather an overwhelming response from the recruiters during its placement drive. Chandigarh University Placements 2021once again proved their leadership in campus placements in Northern India by clocking 5000+ job offers for the 2021 passing-out batch. Considering the data of the placement drive it seems that the global COVID-19 pandemic seems to have no effect as more than 500 multinational companies conducted virtual campus placement drives for the students of Engineering, MBA, Hotel Management, Pharmacy, Bio-Technology, Architecture and other programs.

While announcing the campus placements figures for the 2021 batch, Satnam Singh Sandhu, Chancellor, Chandigarh University said, "As the economy picked up after lockdown, the companies started rolling out their recruitment process which shifted to online mode this year".

According to the data released by the University, the 2021 placement drive at Chandigarh University witnessed a drastic improvement of 30 per cent in the number of offers made to the female students in comparison to the year 2020 as girl student accounted for more than 38% of the total offers made for the 2021 passing out batch. The placement session for the 2021 batch kicked off in the month of July 2020 and within three months the University registered 1000+ job offers as 150+ companies had completed their recruitment process by then.

Talking about Chandigarh University Placements 2021 data, Professor Himani Sood, Sr. Vice-President, Chandigarh University said, "As the campus placements are still on, more than 350 core engineering branch companies have already selected students of Computer Sciences, IT, Electronics & Communication, Electrical, Mechanical, Automobile, Civil, Petroleum, Mechatronics and Aerospace Engineering branches. The highest package for Engineering touched Rs. 35 LPA which was offered by US-based MNC Arcesium for the CSE/IT branch students. There has been exponential growth in the number of companies offering packages of 10 LPA or more. The placement session 2021 saw 10 MNCs offering 25 LPA or more while till date there are 18 multinationals which have offered a package of 15 LPA or more".

The average salary package offered to the students of Engineering has touched 8 LPA while that in the case of MBA students it has touched 7 LPA. Almost 300 recruiters from the Fortune-500 companies participated in the placement drive this year. 50+ companies from the Top-100 Indian Companies have conducted their recruitment process to date. The list of the global companies that participated in Chandigarh University Placements 2021 includes Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Walmart, Deloitte, Bank of America, Hewlett Packard, Cisco while the top Indian recruiters include Wipro, TCS, Cognizant, Capgemini, L&T, Accenture, Flipkart, Hexagon, Birla soft, etc.

Professor Himani further added, "We have a comprehensive pre-placement training program which starts from the first year itself. The student undergoes comprehensive training which comprises Aptitude, Communication and Technical Skills that prepares them for company-specific requirements. The University has also tie-up with India's leading skill assessment company, Aspiring Minds which regularly conducts AMCAT Examination to assess the performance of the students vis-à-vis to the employability skills required by the industry. Students of final year, Batch 2021 at Chandigarh University also managed to grab 2000+ summer Internship offers offered by 480 companies during the COVID period. The compensation in the form of stipend offered by the Multinational companies also clocked the record level of Rs 1 lakh per month which is 20 percent higher in comparison to the year 2020."

“Chandigarh University has maintained leadership in campus placements in the region for the past 5 years which is an endorsement to our academic model which is 100% based on the inputs from Industry. The University offers Industry Collaborative programs in the emerging fields like AI & Machine Learning, Big Data & Data Analytics, Information Security, Cloud Computing in which the entire course curriculum is curated by Industry Experts which enhance the job prospects of the students," added Satnam Singh Sandhu.

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