IIT Guwahati - Indian Institute of Technology

IIT ranks 6 in the list of top colleges of India. Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati offers many courses out of which Electronics and communication engineering is one of the courses which offers about 70 seats to students. It offers the students with hands on experience programs to work on real time based machines in industry interactive sessions. IIT-Guwahati is known for its great infrastructure faculty with 5 to 10 years of experience and they are very knowledgeable and facilities like Wi-Fi, Sports Complex and labs with better equipment and machines. It is sister branch of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. The placement of these courses takes place together. These are some of the companies that takes part in the placement and they are as follows
Dell, Flipkart, Google, HP, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Oracle, Service Now, Snapdeal, Thornton, TomasettiVisa Inc. , Vodafone, Walmart, etc.

The placement has to be some extraordinary and so does it live up to expectations. With the best infrastructure after BITS Pilani, it promises all-round development for students. As per the year 2016, placements statistics have been shared below. Total no. Of companies visited:- 125
Number of offers: 456
Average package: 7Lpa
Median package:- 14lpa
Maximum Package: 55lpa by Samsung
Pre-placement offers or PPOs:-102 companies recruited students from Electronics and Electrical Engineering specialisation. Some prominent names are the regular recruiters For Electronics engineering:-
Philips
Micromax
Blackberry
Bajaj Electrical
Havells
Zuarii Engineering
Thermax
LT Ramboll
DRDO
HAL
Boeing
Airbus.

After considering the placement report of 2016 for IIT, Guwahati in biotechnology engineering branch, out of the 40 students who enrolled for placements, 32 got placed. Some core companies this visit like Biocon, Narayan Cadillac, Sun Pharma, Ranbaxy, Brenntag Industries, etc. But gave away very few offers, Also these placements were mostly considering Business Intelligence, data analytics, banking finance, marketing and other such companies due to the lack of ample of core biotechnology companies visiting the campus and thus rolled out IT based roles. IIT, Guwahati has dedicated placement and training cell which is huge but they are mostly IT companies with big brand recognition. Students usually take up Masters in the same college to increase the chances of getting into core biotech company. Where Placements are phenomenal. The average package was 5 LPA and the highest was 11 LPA and minimum offered range was 4.5 LPA.