Chemical Engineering

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.

First, I would like to clarify a misconception among people that Chemical Engineering is more about chemistry. Chemical Engineering has lot of diverse applications in various process industries, oil and gas, renewable energy, pharmaceuticals, polymers etc. Coming to Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM), the department offers several electives which are industrially relevant. The department has facilities such as Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility (SAIF) and High Performing Computing Environment (HPCE) for conducting research. The department also offers lab courses to students to learn software's such as Aspen Plus, Mathematics, Abacus and MATLAB which is uncommon among other colleges which offer Chemical Engineering because the cost of these packages are very high. The department has various research groups working on Polymer sciences, Biochemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Process Control, Renewable Energy, Reaction Engineering and Fluid Mechanics etc. Our process control group is rated among the best in the world. The department offers a unique minor called systems engineering which is the most preferred minor among students from different departments. Students get placed in different core companies such as ITC, HUL, Shell, Reliance, Dr. Reddy's, Sumitomo etc. Student receive offers from non core sectors such as Finance, Consulting, IT etc. A small group of students apply for higher studies and if my memory serves right most of them get admitted to highly ranked universities abroad. I believe this gave you an overall picture about Chemical Engineering at IIT M.