SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST) has shown splendid performance on the placement arena with more than 8200 students getting job offers in the present placement season. This year’s placement figures managed to surpass the previous year’s achievement where 3020 offers were received from big four IT companies namely TCS, Cognizant, Infosys and Wipro.

With this, the prestigious educational institution based at Kattankulathur near Chennai in Tamilnadu has managed to break all records with regards to placement. That is not all, about 625 companies are said to have made more than 1965 dream and super dream offers to its students. Super dream offer is where pay package is about Rs 10 lakhs per annum and a dream offer has  a pay scale of about Rs 5 lakhs per annum.

At end of the first day in this year’s placement season, TCS made 1437 offers, Infosys made 1315 offers. About 1175 offers poured in from Cognizant and Wipro made 822 offers, says Director, Career Centre at SRMIST, Sriram S Padmanabhan.

Apart from this, TCS has made 183 offers under ‘Digital Track’ (7 lakhs per annum). This is the highest number of offers made by these four companies in any single campus in the country, he says.

SRMIST registers impressive performance on placement arena

Good performance with regards to placement is expected to continue as more companies are likely to visit the intitution as the present placement season will continue till April/May this year. The highlight of the present placement is offer from Microsoft.

This stood to be the highest with Rs 41.6 lakhs per annum. Other top recruiters are Amazon (18 offers of 32 lakhs per annum), Barclays (25 offers of 10 lakhs per annum) and startup Udaan (4 offers of 30 lakhs per annum). Organizations like Veritas and Pay Pal have made internship linked placement
offers.

Spelling out the secret behind the impressive performance he says at SRMIST we help engineering graduates to integrate scientific and engineering principles to develop products and processes that contribute to economic growth, advances in medical care, enhanced national security and many other sectors.

Sriram further says having a vibrant engineering education not just helps the civic, economic and intellectual activity of a country but also the the graduates themselves. Added to this, we arrange mock interviews and impart advanced computing skills to students as they prepare for the placement season, all these factors help students to prepare themselves better to handle placement interviews.

It is owing to these factors that top companies are always attracted towards SRMIST, he says. The cosmopolitan composition found on the SRM campus is also a plus point with us. This also helps attract top companies to their premises.

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