Despite being newly-inducted into the list of Indian Institutes of Technology, IIT Patna had kept up with the top and oldest IITs, at least where the placement of its BTech in Computer Science and Engineering students is concerned. It also managed to buck the trend of declining placement rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting a sharp increase of over 17 percentage points instead. Careers360’s IIT Patna placements 2020-21 is based on official statistics on campus engineering job drives.
Despite being newly-inducted into the list of Indian Institutes of Technology, IIT Patna had kept up with the top and oldest IITs, at least where the placement of its BTech in Computer Science and Engineering students is concerned. It also managed to buck the trend of declining placement rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting a sharp increase of over 17 percentage points instead. Careers360’s IIT Patna placements 2020-21 is based on official statistics on campus engineering job drives.
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna is in the list of top 30 engineering colleges of India, as ranked by the education ministry’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). During the COVID-19 pandemic, when many top engineering colleges saw their placement rates dip, IIT Patna’s increased albeit after a slide. Computer Science and Engineering students reported a placement rate of 95 percent and received the highest salary of more than Rs 54 lakh per annum.
Careers360 gathered the placement data of IIT Patna through a right Right to Information application and found that companies that recruit from top IITs are visiting and recruiting students of IIT Patna regularly.
IIT Patna’s placement rates have varied over the last three years, fitting the trend at even the oldest and top IITs and possibly linked to the general havoc caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in 2020-21, IIT Patna’s placement percentages rose by a very sharp 17.61 percentage points and that was the best performance in the last three years.
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In total, 207 students registered for campus placement, of whom 140 got jobs in 2020-21, which is nearly 68 percent.
IIT Patna: Branch-Wise Students Placed
Branch | Registered Students Placed (In %) |
Computer Science and Engineering | 95 |
Electrical Engineering | 61.40 |
Mechanical Engineering | 60.87 |
Chemical Engineering | 58.33 |
Civil Engineering | 30 |
The highest salary package received by the Computer Science and Engineering students of IIT Patna is comparable to top IITs.
IIT Patna Placements 2020-21: Salary (In Rs Lakh)
Branch | Maximum Salary | Minimum Salary | Average Salary |
Computer Science and Engineering | 54.57 | 6.5 | 24.24 |
Electrical Engineering | 32 | 5 | 14.56 |
Mechanical Engineering | 33.5 | 6.5 | 12.62 |
Chemical Engineering | 10 | 5 | 7.47 |
Civil Engineering | 9 | 5.16 | 6.58 |
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Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of companies that visited the IIT Patna campus for recruitment did not decrease. In three years, the numbers show an increasing trend.
In these three years, Microsoft was always part of the recruitment drive, while Goldman Sachs, DE Shaw, Google, Amazon each took part twice.
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