Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

LPU students receive 8,500+ placement offers with highest salary package being Rs 42 lakh

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LPU Students’ gesture to thank the university for placements finds its way into Guinness World Records history. LPU, India’s leading university today announced that its students have received more than 8500 offers during the pandemic. In the engineerin­g discipline, the highest salary package at which LPU students have been selected is Rs. 42 lakh per annum with Microsoft, while the highest package offered in Management stood at Rs. 21 lakh per annum by Trident. Despite COVID and students learning from their homes, the university attracted some of the most coveted recruiters in the country including Microsoft, Amazon, Cognizant, Capgemini, Infosys, Bosch, TCS, Wipro, L&T Technology Services, Federal Bank, Aditya Birla Group, Accor Group of Hotels, DXC Technologi­es Optum, CISCO, Lowe’s India, Tivo Corporatio­n, Infineon, Hitachi, Havells, South Indian Bank, Informatic­a, Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group, and Acko General Insurance. Over 1000 placement events were conducted this year.

This year, LPU has also been ranked amongst the top university of both government of India’s NIRF ranking 2021 and in the world most rigorous Times Higher Education global ranking. In the NIRF ranking, LPU ranking amongst thousands of universiti­es in India is ‘62’ and its Engineerin­g, Management, Architectu­re, Law and Pharmacy programs are rated best in the country and many in the top 25 position in the country.

As per Times Higher Education Impact 2021 rankings, LPU is amongst the top 200 universiti­es of the world sharing ranking with the world’s best institutes of USA, Canada, UK and more.

With such great achievemen­ts this year, LPU students also did something beautiful for the university.

In a bid to celebrate the successful placement season created a new Guinness World Records title where 5656 of them recorded themselves on video saying, “I am thankful to LPU for making us a part of its largest placement network, I am proud to be a Verto.” This is the largest online video album of people saying the same sentence.

The record has been officially confirmed and included in the Guinness World Records database. Such a gesture by LPU students clearly shows the connection of the university with its students.

Great global and India rankings of LPU, one of the best placement records for any university in India coupled with the infrastruc­ture of global standards has put LPU as the first choice of the students and parents. Students joining the university from across India and from 45+ countries is proof that LPU is surely one of the most successful universiti­es in India and its students hold a bright future.

University offers 200+ programs at undergradu­ate, postgradua­te and doctorate levels in 40+ discipline­s. To know more about the university visit www.lpu.in or contact 01824 404422.

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PHOTO: HTED University offers 200+ programs at undergradu­ate, postgradua­te and doctorate levels

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