NITK Surathkal Placements 2021 witnessed 85% under-graduate and 57% post-graduate students getting picked primarily by technology and core engineering companies
NITK Surathkal Placements 2021: After successfully conducting online classes and exams via virtual mode this academic year, the National Institute of Technology-Karnataka (NIT K), Surathkal, conducted a remote campus placement drive 2021. According to the reports, NITK Surathkal Placements 2021 witnessed 85% under-graduate and 57% post-graduate students getting picked primarily by technology and core engineering companies, reports Kevin Mendonsa. Despite the economic slowdown amid the ongoing pandemic, a student of the country's premier tech school bagged the highest annual pay package of Rs 51.5 lakh from a startup. The average student yearly pay package has gone up to Rs 11 lakh this year from Rs 10 lakh last year.
A total of 269 companies participated in NIT K Surathkal Recruitment Drive 2021, 15 are yet to join. NIT Surathkal Placement Drive 2021 will go on until the end of June. This year, the company tally is expected to be 284, way higher than 256 of the last year.
“The institute has 800 undergraduate students, of which 666 were eligible for the drive. 566 students have been made job offers so far. The PG sections have 600 students, and 541 candidates are participating in the placement process. As many as 339 (or 57%) candidates have been placed so far,” NIT official said. Last year, most of the recruitments had been done in the traditional fashion before COVID-19 broke out towards the end of March, and only the last few days of the drive went online.
Vijay Desai, chairman of career development centre of NIT-K, Surathkal, said. “the institution expects at least 30 more BTech and MTech students to land jobs by this month-end. Some legacy companies which were on the campus include Isro, BEL, BEL-CRL and GAIL, and they zeroed in on a good number of students from BTech and MTech streams.”
CS & IT students in demand almost every single student of Computer Science and IT was picked with these streams accounting for 100% and 98%, respectively, campus hiring. At least 70% of BTech students from each department walked away with job offers. About 80 students or 10% of total BTech strength in the final year stayed away from placements since they said they have secured admissions for higher studies in institutions in India and abroad.
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