IIT Kanpur Placements 2024: Highest Package, Average Package, Top Recruiters

IIT Kanpur has concluded its phase 1 of placements with 250 national & international recruiters visiting the campus. 1128 jobs were secured and 74 international offers were made. The number of PPOs received was 208. The highest domestic salary stood at INR 1.9 CPA.

Some of the top recruiters included: Rakuten Mobile, American Express, Pwc, Intel, Microsoft India, EXL, Capital One, J.P. Morgan & Chase and many more.

Placements play an important role in one’s career and most of the time an institute's worth and credibility are judged on the basis of the same. IIT Kanpur maintains an am excellent placement scenario which has been explained further in detail

Department Wise:

• Computer Science, Electrical and Mathematics & Computing (CEM): The branches are the most preferred by companies with CS placement being 100% while Electrical and Mathematics & Computing have above 95%.
• Core Branches: Most students tend to go for core jobs because the core opportunities in their branches are scarce. However, IIT Kanpur has many top core companies visiting the campus yearly. 
• Interdisciplinary branches: Some core companies allow students of these branches to sit for placements yet they prefer students from the main department over them.

Course wise

• B.Tech/BS: The most sought-after students belong to either BTech or BS. Every firm offers enough roles to these students except some core companies that prefer MTech students to BTech students. 
• Dual Degree: The students are open to opportunities offered to both BTech as well as MTech students owing to the nature of their degree
• M.Tech/MSR/M.Sc: Branches like CSE, Stats, and Design provide good opportunities to MTech students. Some no core and almost all core companies prefer MTech students 

Kind of roles:

• Software: The majority of recruiters are software firms that prefer CEM students or students with food coding skills in general.
• Core roles: Quite a number of core companies visit
• Analytics: The number of analytical roles offered has increased due to its increase in demand. Anyone with good analytical skills is open to such roles.
• Consulting: Many top consulting firms visit the campus and open profiles to B.Tech and Dual degree streams. 
• Product roles: These roles too have seen an increase over the last 2 years. 

All in all, the placement scenario at IIT Kanpur is quite good with a plethora of opportunities provided that you are well-prepared and determined.

The placement scenario for Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur is second only to the CS department. It is the largest department of IIT Kanpur, and it has maintained a successful placement record over the past few years.

The various specializations offered under EE are VLSI, SPCom, RF & Microwave, Power Engineering, Control & Automation.

Placement Percentage

• The VLSI, SPCom & RF have the best placements around 100%.
• The power Engineering placement percentage is around 60 - 80 %
• Control and Automation placement percentage 50 - 70 %

Salary packages:

• Power Engineering and Control & Automation: The average package is around INR 5 - 7 LPA. It's important to bear in mind that this is for core jobs offered by ABB, GE, Schneider Electric, etc. 
• VLSI / RF / SPCom: These specializations fetch higher packages with an average package in the range of INR 10-12 LPA. Some core companies that visit are Intel, TI, Qualcomm, Analog Devices, and Taiwan Semiconductors. These offer an average package of INR 16 LPA.

A few placement highlights of MSc Statistics at IIT Kanpur are

Quick facts before going into the details :

• The placement percentage of MSc statistics is 100% at IIT Kanpur 
• The highest-ever recorded package is INR 27 LPA
• Companies offering INR 20+ LPA are Goldman Sachs, Walmart, Dunia Finance, Fuzzy Logics, Amazon, Two Roads
• Recruiters offering packages in the range of 10-20 LPA are Citicorp, Jp Morgan Chase, Accenture, and United Health Groups.
• The lowest recorded to date stands at INR 6.5 LPA by EXL
• TCS and Infosys also offered packages below INR 10 LPA 

The MSc Statistics course offered at IIT Kanpur has excellent job opportunities and you will be shocked to know that more than a lakh is offered just for internships. The reasons for such an excellent placement scenario are

• Top JAM rankers opt for either IIT Kanpur or ISI
• The UG course, BS Mathematics, and Scientific Computing attract companies with job profiles related to Statistics and Computer Science. The MAc Statistics course has similar courses and thus students are allowed to sit for the same placements as that of BS, increasing employability.
• A plethora of electives are offered to enable hands-on experience in industry-oriented courses. This makes the MSc Statistics course application-oriented and not theoretical.
• Academically this course is very challenging and rigorous making companies curious about your skills.

So we can conclude that this course offers the best placement statistics second only to that of CS.

Although IIT Kanpur does not release branch-wise or course-wise placements, someone filled an RTI or Right to Information and IIT Kanpur replied to it.

The data compiled from it has been tabulated below

Dual Degree and BTech placements IIT Kanpur

IIT Kanpur Chemical Engineering placement scenario is excellent and much better than that at old IITs such as KGP and Delhi. The job opportunities offered are plenty and the packages offered too are decent. 

IIT Kanpur does not release branch-wise placement statistics however, I got hold of the previous year’s placements that might help you get a slight idea of the placement scenario at IIT Kanpur.

Some of the top recruiters that offered roles to students of Chemical Engineering are

• TATA Advanced System
• Lummus Technology
• Arati Industries Ltd.
• ExxonMobil
• JP Morgan Chase & Co
• Tata Steel
• Sterlite Technologies Ltd.
• Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd
• BYJU'S - The Learning App
• Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

You will find both core and non-core opportunities in all departments at IIT Kanpur. Mostly Analytic roles are offered to students of all departments. These roles and packages depend on your own caliber and not on the branch you belong to.

Core roles are also offered to Mechanical Engineering students at IIT Kanpur. These roles are given on the basis of your academic performance and your knowledge base pertaining to the specific branch. But it’s important to know that core roles offered are very fewer in number than non-core jobs.

It’s recommended that you prepare for both. After all, some Analytics roles just evaluate you for your aptitude.

Mtech in RF and Microwave at IIT Kanpur has excellent placement scenarios with a placement percentage of 100%.

The Electrical Engineering department of IIT Kanpur is second only to the CS department and offers the best job opportunities. Irrespective of your branch, you are likely to get placed in a good company with a decent package. 

Talking specifically about RF, students receive offers from highly reputed semiconductor companies in India like Intel, Qualcomm, STMicroelectronics, Samsung Semiconductor, etc. Additionally, there are many other recruiters like General Electric, Siemens, Boeing 

Securing a core job, however, might be a bit difficult but not completely impossible. Some companies that offer core jobs are Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Siemens, etc. Usually, the average CTC is in the range of INR 13–15 LPA. The majority of the batch received packages above 15 LPA.

Unlike the general opinion that VLSI is the best branch, I would conclude that RF is one of the best branches provided that you have a genuine interest in it.

This answer is based on the assumption that you are enquiring about the highest package for Civil Engineering at IIT Kanpur. Well, the highest I have heard is around INR 36 LPA. However, branch-wise placement data is not available for IIT Kanpur so the recent highest package might have changed.

In reality, landing a 36 Lakhs package is next to impossible in Civil Engineering and the person who got it probably got placed in a banking or investment firm. His exceptional achievement stems from his top-notch skills in probability and statistics. 

The placements for Civil Engineering are mostly based on work experience and initially, you will be offered minimal pay.

Don’t get disheartened if you are planning to get employed in the civil engineering field, the initial payment is little, but this field is all about experience. After a couple of years, you will be earning more than your CS batchmates. Another option is to get into the public sector which provides good pay too.