Hindustan Times (Jalandhar)

LPU BTech student offered a package of Rs 64 lakh by Google

Another student from the class of 2022 offered Rs 63 lakh

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Continuing its legacy of unbeatable placement records, Lovely Profession­al University (LPU) has once again registered one of the highest number of placements offers as well as the highest package record in the country for the batch graduating in June 2022.

The world’s top tech giant Google has recruited LPU’s BTech CSE student, Hare Krishna, at a salary package of Rs 64 lakh. He will be working with Google’s Bangalore office. This is one of the highest packages received by an engineerin­g student in the country. Another LPU student of the class of 2022, Arjun received a package of Rs 63 lakhs in the AI/ML domain. He will also be joining the Bangalore office. LPU has broken its own record, as this package is 1.5 times (50%) higher than the previous years’ highest of Rs 42 Lakh for a fresher. Amazon has also hired batch students at a package of Rs 46.4 lakh.

Setting another benchmark, 8400+ placement/internship offers have been extended to LPU students of various programmes of the 2022 batch, even months before their final exams.

This year, 1190+ companies reached the LPU campus to recruit its students, which is again another record for the number of companies visiting a university campus for recruitmen­t. Most of the top students got a package of Rs 10 to 48 Lakh in top internatio­nal companies including Amazon, Google, VMware, Lowe’s, Infineon, Target, Bajaj Fineserv, What fix, ZS Associates, Zscaler, Practo, Palo Alto etc.

Marquee recruiters like Cognizant recruited 670+ students, Capgemini recruited 310+ students, Wipro recruited 310+, MPhasis recruited 210+, and Accenture recruited 150+ and Lead Squared among others at differenti­al packages between 6.75 lakh and 10 lakhs.

In recent years, more than 20,000 placements/internship­s have been offered to LPU students by top recruiters. Several of the Fortune 500 companies have extended more than 5000 offers.

Dr. Ashok Mittal, chancellor, LPU said, “At LPU, we focus on providing a very comprehens­ive curriculum that focuses on the overall developmen­t. LPU has recently tied up with several corporates to offer specialize­d programs in engineerin­g, data science, big data, cloud, digital marketing, financial markets, supply chain, HRM, medical sciences and more. With this, LPU has shown its commitment to nurturing students who are ready for industry 4.0 requiremen­ts. Also, with these accomplish­ed records, LPU is now among the very few Indian universiti­es which feature in the global Times Higher Education ranking.”

LPU’s placement data has always been illustriou­s since its inception. Thousands of LPU students have been successful­ly pursuing careers across the globe with hundreds of national and internatio­nal companies. Thousands of LPU alumni are currently placed with top companies of the world including Google, Microsoft, and other Silicon Valley companies at a package of Rs 1 crore and above.

 ?? HTED ?? LPU students have received excellent placement offers
HTED LPU students have received excellent placement offers

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