Anna University Placement

The Material Science programme at CEG is more test-oriented than research or employment oriented. The tests are monotonous. Every year, they repeat the same pattern of questions. If you bootlick the professors, you can get really good marks. There was this thermodynamics sir who didn't even teach at all. The curriculum was very poor. There were no Ceramics, Polymers units in detail. What is the use of naming the dept. Materials Science if you are only going to teach Metallurgy? Placements are very poor. Most of them were placed in IT companies. Only one or two in core. For GATE, you have to prepare on your own. Only a few professors like Dr. A. Siddharthan were research-oriented. Rest all believed in mugging up and scoring.

Madras Institute of Technology comes under Anna University. So the campus is authorised to attend placements in Guindy campus of Anna University too. Now coming to the statistics, Accenture, Accolite, Air Watch, Amazon, Chronus, Citicorp, CTS, Flipkart, TCS, RBS and many others come to the campus for placements. Statistically, more than 50 percent of the students have been placed. With a filter on CS/IT department, more than 70 percent of the students were placed as of the year 2016. You have tremendous job opportunities for information technology and especially computer Science courses where is for electronic courses you are doomed that are basically only less than 5 core companies which come to the campus and only pick the cream of the class.

Scope can be categorised in several ways. So, I am writing in two major sections so that one can use it as per the broad interest.
Employability:
Pharmacy gives better employability as compared to biotech, biochem or microbio. The reason is the huge pharma industry. B.Pharma. Itself give you an okay job while M.Pharma. May give you a reasonably decent job. Pharma sector includes several fields of work from research, development and manufacturing to sales and distribution. All these fields require huge number of manpower. So pharma sector wins this employability criteria. Although most of the jobs are in private sector but quantum is huge too. Other three fields also give private sector jobs but in India such field for life sciences is still growing. Masters in life sciences rarely brings a good job opportunity. Research/Academia
Pharma research is not well developed in India as compared to life sciences. Research requires post M.Sc. Work and biotech, biochem and microbio are similar in this aspect. The reason is that most of the research institutions in our country give equal preference for M.Sc. Biotech, biochem, and microbio or other life sciences students while selecting them for Ph.D. or a project work. So if one wants to do research, he/she should opt for either of these three fields in Masters. Academics require publication. All these fields are publication friendly. All these fields can be a good platform for becoming an academician. Though lack of research and more opportunity in private sector in pharma, makes pharma more job oriented and less academia-oriented field here. While other three are more academia oriented because of well-developed research infrastructure and low private sector opportunity. *Finally, choose whatever you like. Recognise your passion. You cannot spend your life doing the work you don't like. Some people want money first so may opt for pharma, some people want to do research so may opt for other three fields. Ultimately, it's your choice what you want to see yourself in the future.