IIT Bombay Placement 2024: Average salary package up by 7.7%; lesser job offers

IIT Bombay Placements: 22 job offers are above Rs 1 crore, 78 international. 638 BTech students got core engineering, software jobs.

IIT Bombay placement sees 22 Rs 1 crore plus offers, 78 international ones. (Image: IIT Bombay/official Facebook account)

Vagisha Kaushik | September 3, 2024 | 10:14 AM IST

NEW DELHI: Only 1,475 students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have been placed this year as compared to last year's 1,516. However, the IIT Bombay placements 2024 saw a 7.7% increase in the average salary package, to Rs 23.50 lakh per annum. 22 graduands secured jobs with salary packages above Rs 1 crore while 78 received international offers. The institute saw a 12 percent increase in the number of recruiters too and the engineering and technology emerged as the top recruiting sector.

2,414 students and 543 firms registered for the IIT Bombay placement. Of this; 1,979 students and 388 companies participated in the drive. Around 364 recruiters made offers.

IIT Bombay Placements 2024: Recruiters

Among the recruiting sectors were core engineering, information technology, software programming, research and development, consulting, finance, banking, high-end technology, and technical services.

As compared to last year’s 65 international offers, students grabbed 78 this year from different firms based in Japan, Taiwan, Europe, UAE, Singapore, USA, Netherlands, and Hong Kong.

Sector-wise, 430 students were selected in 106 core engineering companies at entry-level positions. More students were hired in information technology and tech this season compared to last year. Around 307 students have been offered IT or software jobs by over 84 companies through campus placement , making it the second biggest recruiter after the engineering sector.

Lesser jobs, 117, were made in the consulting domain this year by 29 companies. Trading, Banking, and Fintech companies were prominent recruiters. The finance sector made 113 offers from 33 financial service firms this year. Profiles in artificial intelligence, machine learning, product management, mobility, 5g, data science and analytics, and education also saw rising hiring trends.

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Besides 17 design companies offered 33 jobs and have seen fewer selections. The education sector saw 11 companies participating with only 30 jobs offered. The Research & Development witnessed companies in automation, energy science, battery technology, chemical and mechanical research, energy efficiency solutions, application development, materials research, semiconductor, power electronics, ai/ml and research laboratories, where 36 organisations offered 97 positions.

While 775 students made their way to the Multi-National Companies (MNCs), 622 have been placed in Indian firms.

The IIT informed that some of the 435 students who didn’t register for campus placements want to pursue higher studies, such as MS, MTech, PhD and MBA programmes, while others opted for entrepreneurship or civil services, and didn’t appear or had minimal participation in the placement drive.

IIT Bombay Placements 2024: Job offers

The programme-wise placements are as follows:

Program

Registered

Participated

Placed

Placement Percentage

BTech

930

819

683

83.39%

MTech

564

497

415

83.50%

MS (Research)

23

15

14

93.33%

Dual Degree (BTech + MTech)

216

192

152

79.16%

MSc (2 years)

228

158

87

55.06%

Bachelors in Science (4 years)

69

60

39

65.00%

BDes

26

17

9

52.94%

Dual Degree (BDes + M Des)

10

10

4

40.00%

MDes

69

63

36

57.14%

MS (Research) (Exit Degree)

10

7

1

14.28%

MPP

11

6

0

0.00%

Others

28

18

3

22.22%

PhD

230

117

32

27.35%

Total

2414

1979

1475

74.53%

Here’s the branch-wise placement analysis:

Branch

Registered

Participated

Placed

Aerospace Engineering

140

119

76

Applied Statistics and Informatics

34

30

24

Earth Science

61

34

14

Biomedical Engineering

21

15

12

Biosciences and Bioengineering

34

21

11

Centre for Policy Studies

11

6

0

Centre for Research in Nanotechnology & Science

8

4

2

Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE)

2

2

2

Technology and Development (C-TARA)

37

30

25

Centre for Urban Science and Engineering

10

9

5

Chemical Engineering

190

160

119

Chemistry

80

59

22

Civil Engineering

177

146

113

Computer Science Engineering

275

254

230

Economics

32

30

21

Educational Technology

5

3

2

Electrical Engineering

319

281

232

Engineering Physics

61

41

28

Energy Science and Engineering

81

59

39

Environmental Science and Engineering

50

42

34

Geo-informatics and Natural Resources Engineering

26

23

17

Humanities and Social Sciences

9

5

0

Industrial Design Centre (IDC)

105

90

49

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

38

36

29

Mathematics

49

37

20

Mechanical Engineering

308

260

229

Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science

185

152

106

Physics

48

22

7

Systems and Control Engineering

18

9

7

Total

2414

1979

1475

PPOs, PhD placements

300 students of IIT Bombay received Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) of whom 258 accepted. The recruiters showed the most interest in computer science followed by core engineering.

On the other hand, 1,267 internship offers were made including 1,177 by companies and 90 by universities marking a 13% increase from last year. Students were offered internships in different departments such as computer science, chemical, civil, mechanical. The institute saw a slight decrease in the number of MSc internships and an increase in design internships.

The IIT Bombay PhD placements 2024 witnessed 32 offers and Rs 18.46 lakh average Cost to Company (CTC). Of 230 who registered for the placements, 118 sat for interviews.

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