Despite COVID-19 pandemic; IIT BHU maintains placements for academic session 2020-21

The placement is witnessing continuous growth, both in terms of number and median salary as well. From a meager number of 47 companies visiting it during the session 2019-20.

The coronavirus pandemic seems to have failed to have an impact on the placements and paid internships at the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IIT BHU). The Academic session 2019-20 was severely affected due to the coronavirus outbreak in the country, however, the institute has maintained its growth pattern, both for placements and paid internships.

“Even during this hard time, the institute is doing very well in the session 2020-21 both in terms of pre-placement offers and paid internship,” said IIT BHU, Director, Professor Pramod Kumar Jain.

He further added that, “ The number of pre-placement offers increased from 164 in 2019-20 to 253 in 2020-21 and the number of internships also increased from 141 (2019-20) to 204 (2020-21). The placement data for the period up to September 8 speaks for itself, and this trend seems to continue for the remaining period of the academic session.”

Jain added that the placement is witnessing continuous growth, both in terms of number and median salary as well. From a meager number of 47 companies visiting it during the session 2019-20. The institute has been focusing to increase the employability of students by conducting programmes on hard and soft skills both.

IIT BHU placement generally begins every year in May and goes on up to July.

Around 25 per cent of undergraduate students are given scholarships on the basis of merit and means. The details for the scholarship are provided on the website. All MTech and MPharma students can avail scholarships. A number of international scholarships such as Rhodes Scholarships, Japanese government scholarships for research students, and Korean government scholarship programmes are given to PhD students from India and abroad. Fellowships are available for SC students.

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