“Our placement is very strong”
THE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (IIT) BHUBANESWAR HAS CREATED A STRONG ENVIRONMENT THAT GIVES STUDENTS SEVERAL OPPORTUNITIES TO EXCEL
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2019 has ranked IIT Bhubaneswar 17 among all engineering institutes in India. What makes it unique?
In an endeavour to take the institute to the top 100 of the global class, we have been working towards creating an outstanding college where international education methods are adopted, and a strong student centric system that fosters independent thinking and academic culture.
What initiatives have been taken by you in the last two years?
There is no shortcut to success. Any institute aspiring to be amongst the elite engineering institutes of the world needs to recruit the best of faculty and adopt global standards. We at IIT Bhubaneswar have recruited international faculty so that students get to learn from the experts and also are get exposed to global practices. In the last three years, we have recruited five such faculty members for a period of more than six months.
Are new age courses offered at IIT Bhubaneswar?
Yes. The M Tech programme in computer science that started two years back is unique to IIT Bhubaneswar and offers cyber security and forensics studies. Final year B Tech students can also register for the individual courses that are part of this M Tech programme. These are in the form of electives and they can sub-specialise in cyber security and forensic science, artificial and machine intelligence, data science, and software engineering.
Is there a shift in the nature of companies registering for campus recruitment?
The eagerness to join core jobs among the students has gone up over time. At IIT Bhubaneswar, the percentage of students taking up such job profiles stands between 75 per cent and 80 per cent. The last placement session recorded a significant rise in placement percentage, highest and average salaries, and in the number of companies visiting the campus. The average salary package has been `11.44 lakh per annum and the percentage for undergraduate placements has been more than 90 per cent. A total of 55 companies visited the campus for recruitment this year. Companies such as Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, Airbus, Mahindra, GE, TCS, Wipro, Honeywell, Tata Steel and public sector units such as ISRO, IOCL and NCCBM have participated this year.