BTech Chemical Engineering: College-Wise Placements And Salaries.

Among the core branches of engineering, chemical engineering departments have struggled with placements but have still done better than Civil Engineering in practically all top colleges across the country. The only exceptions to this placement trend in 2020-21 are IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur.

Students of chemical engineering across 15 public technical institutions saw an average placement rate of 71.2 per cent. These 15 institutions rank among the top 25 engineering colleges as per the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF 2021). These include several IITs, National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and so far, one state institution, Jadavpur University.

Careers360 analysed placement data obtained from 15 engineering institutes through a Right to Information application to understand how students of different colleges, studying the same subject and pursuing the same degree, fared when it came to landing engineering jobs and salary packages.

Institutes that do not offer the programme or shared data that was not entirely clear were left out of this analysis.

Chemical Engineering: Jobs Data

IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur and NIT Surathkal did not share the total enrolled students data for 2020-21, hence these colleges were left out in the analysis represented in the graph below.

Around 60.5 per cent of enrolled chemical engineering graduates were successfully placed. A total of 226 enrolled students did not secure any placements. Among the students who registered for placement, 71.2 per cent found a job while the remaining 28.8 percent, which is 140 students, did not.

Among all the 15 engineering institutes that shared placement data for the analysis, the placement percentage for chemical engineering is quite variable. It ranged from 55.56 to 100 per cent.

Chemical Engineering: Detail Info About Placement Drive

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Chemical Engineering Placement Rate

Among all colleges, two NITs – NIT Rourkela and NIT Surathkal – had the top placement rates for this branch of engineering, beating even the top IITs. IIT Ropar, a new-generation IIT, had a better placement record than IIT Roorkee, one of the oldest IITs.

Only NIT Surathkal, NIT Rourkela, IIT Delhi, and IIT Kharagpur have better placement records in chemical engineering as compared to their college overall placement percentage.

BTech Placement: Chemical Engineering 2020-21 (In %)

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NIT Surathkal, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, and IIT Kharagpur showed great placement percentages among the students registered for placement. But these institutes could not share the enrollment data, thus it was not added in the analysis. The rest of the information from these institutes is described in the below table.

BTech In Chemical Placement In Numbers

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BTech Chemical Engineering Average Annual Salary

NIT Rourkela placed 100 per cent of its Chemical Engineering students, yet the average annual salary package received was low compared to most colleges. All the listed institute's chemical engineering departments were not able to get their students a salary package more than the overall average salary package of the institute.

IIT Kanpur had the highest overall average salary package but IIT Hyderabad had the highest average salary package for chemical engineering.

Chemical Engineering Salaries (In Lakh Per Annum)

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Chemical Engineering: Maximum, Minimum Salary

IIT Hyderabad reported the highest maximum annual salary for chemical engineering graduates, along with it IIT BHU and IIT Guwahati also did well. Colleges that did not disclose the maximum and minimum salaries were left out of the table below. NIT, Rourkela and Surathkal, and Jadavpur University recorded the bottom position in terms of minimum salary.

CHE: Maximum, Minimum Annual Salary (In Rs Lakh)

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Careers360 analyzed the same data for the other three core branches as well- civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. Our analysis shows that the chemical engineering branch had the second lowest placement percentage after civil engineering.