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    Almost 82% BTech Graduates From Second Generation IITs Get Placed

    By Atul Ade, Nidhi Agarwal
    29 Jun'23  5 min read
    Almost 82% BTech Graduates From Second Generation IITs Get Placed
    Synopsis

    Over the past seven years, second generation IITs placed under 82 per cent of their BTech students in jobs. Careers360 analysed ranking data of the last seven years and compared the placement performance of second generation IITs with the old and renowned IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras and others.

    Almost 82% BTech Graduates From Second Generation IITs Get Placed
    Synopsis

    Over the past seven years, second generation IITs placed under 82 per cent of their BTech students in jobs. Careers360 analysed ranking data of the last seven years and compared the placement performance of second generation IITs with the old and renowned IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras and others.

    Overall under 82 per cent BTech graduates from the second generation Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are placed each year. While under 14 per cent go for further studies, an analysis of government data available through National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF 2023) shows this is quite an impressive trend compared to the previous years.

    Till 2001, India had just seven IITs — the nation’s premier engineering colleges funded by the central government. Starting from 2008 to 2016, another 14 IITs were established and two existing engineering colleges, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad, were granted the status of IITs.

    Among the 16 new IITs thus formed, eight of them were established between 2008 and 2009 and known as second generation IITs.

    Careers360 studied ranking data over seven years, 2016-17 to 2021-22, of the second generation IITs to see how they fared on placements. The data for the latest year was compared with that of the oldest IITs — Bombay, Delhi, Kharagpur, Kanpur, Madras, Roorkee, Guwahati —to see how the two groups fared.

    Placements At Second Generation IITs

    On average, under 82 per cent of the students got placed and over 12 per cent of the students went for higher studies from the eight second generation IITs in 2021-22. The NIRF data does not say anything about what became of the roughly six per cent of students who were neither placed nor enrolled in higher studies. Maybe some of these student can established their own startups.

    Over the seven years, the eight colleges experienced fluctuating placement records with the percentage of students placed highest in NIRF 2023.

    New IIT Placements: Graduating BTechs Placed (In %)

    NAME

    2021-22

    2020-21

    2019-20

    2018-19

    2017-18

    2016-17

    2015-16

    IIT Ropar

    84.50

    74.26

    80.31

    71.70

    76.29

    74.07

    69.61

    IIT Bhubaneswar

    92.91

    81.82

    80.00

    81.08

    82.28

    76.43

    82.86

    IIT Gandhinagar

    57.80

    68.99

    52.56

    48.33

    52.94

    60.71

    60.95

    IIT Hyderabad

    88.43

    67.77

    65.75

    64.92

    58.67

    70.31

    83.78

    IIT Jodhpur

    79.23

    74.85

    67.86

    65.09

    66.39

    43.23

    75.00

    IIT Patna

    83.13

    90.32

    61.78

    61.29

    73.10

    64.00

    85.84

    IIT Indore

    84.62

    64.26

    60.18

    72.55

    68.47

    49.57

    74.11

    IIT Mandi

    83.96

    78.32

    69.66

    66.41

    78.18

    69.30

    77.68

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    IIT Placements: Old And Second Generation

    In 2021-22, the oldest IITs, which are also the top-ranked IITs on the NIRF, together averaged a placement percentage of 86.65 per cent.

    Although the average placement percentage of second generation IITs have less placement performance figures compared to the top IITs. IIT Bhubaneswar has a higher placement percentage than all top IITs except Kharagpur. While IIT Hyderabad have performed better than IIT Bombay, Madras and Kanpur.

    Placement data is present in all NIRF submissions but no score weightage was assigned to it.

    Old And Second Generation IIT: Placement Details (In Percentage)Placement Performance

    From Second Generation IITs To Higher Studies

    The higher studies graph shows very fluctuating data for all eight engineering institutes. The change in just one year can be as high as more than 10 percentage points.

    IIT Students Opting For Higher Studies (In %)

    NAME

    2021-22

    2020-21

    2019-20

    2018-19

    2017-18

    2016-17

    2015-16

    IIT Ropar

    2.58

    3.80

    3.15

    23.58

    6.19

    4.63

    5.88

    IIT Bhubaneswar

    5.91

    7.02

    2.05

    7.43

    10.13

    11.43

    7.62

    IIT Gandhinagar

    23.12

    12.66

    23.72

    17.50

    29.41

    9.82

    13.33

    IIT Hyderabad

    7.84

    4.40

    20.09

    20.94

    30.10

    19.79

    15.68

    IIT Jodhpur

    20.77

    23.98

    1.79

    4.72

    6.72

    18.06

    7.50

    IIT Patna

    16.87

    3.23

    4.19

    3.76

    9.36

    9.14

    10.62

    IIT Indore

    6.07

    4.26

    8.41

    14.71

    13.51

    17.39

    11.61

    IIT Mandi

    13.37

    18.88

    15.86

    13.28

    2.73

    2.63

    4.46

    Higher Studies From IITs: Second Generation And New

    At first generation IITs, an average of 11.4 per cent of students go for further studies after a four-year undergraduate BTech programme. While the ones established in 2008 or 2009 that are considered here, average of about 12 per cent students opt for higher education.

    Two of the oldest and most well established, IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur– ranked one and fourth respectively in the NIRF 2023– had the lowest percentage of placements because a large chunk of the student group opted for higher studies.

    The percentage of students opting for higher studies in IIT Hyderabad was above 20 per cent for four years till NIRF 2021, but in 2022 NIRF the percentage dropped significantly to 4.4 per cent, even when the placement percentage did not show any major changes. But in the latest years its performance has improved a bit in percentage of students opting for higher studies but major improvement was seen in placement.

    Higher Studies Comparison: Old & Second Generation IITsHigher Study: Details

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    IIT Placements: Median Salary

    IIT Gandhinagar had the lowest placement percentage as well as the lowest median salary over the last seven academic years among all the IITs. But in 2020-21, its placement percentage improved by a huge margin of 16.4 percentage points compared to the 2019-20 but again remained the lowest in the latest years.

    IIT Placement: Median Salary Per Annum (In Rs Lakh)

    NAME

    2021-22

    2020-21

    2019-20

    2018-19

    2017-18

    2016-17

    2015-16

    IIT Ropar

    17.14

    12.4

    12.2

    11.2

    9.6

    8

    8.2

    IIT Bhubaneswar

    15

    13.5

    13.5

    9

    8.8

    7.5

    6.5

    IIT Gandhinagar

    14.17

    9

    8.97

    7.25

    6.63

    7.08

    7.5

    IIT Hyderabad

    20

    16.25

    17

    12

    10.3

    9.1

    7.2

    IIT Jodhpur

    15

    12

    12.25

    9.37

    9.25

    7.75

    8.2

    IIT Patna

    20

    11.8

    14

    10

    10

    8.88

    8.52

    IIT Indore

    18.5

    14

    16.5

    13

    10

    10

    9

    IIT Mandi

    21

    18

    15

    10

    9.5

    10

    9

    IIT Placements Median Salary : A Comparison

    Almost all the IITs were able to reach a seven-figure annual median salary. The median salary at IIT Mandi, Hyderabad and Patna was more than that of IIT Bombay, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee.

    Median Salary Comparison : Old & Second Generation IITs (In Lakh Rs.)Median Salary Details

    Most of the second generation IITs are doing very well when compared to the first generation IITs in terms of placement. As for the students opting for higher studies no trend was seen in comparison among the two sets of IITs. But the median salary offered to their students showed the major difference among these IITs.

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