IIT-Kharagpur Placements

Over 3,500 students from 1,800 schools across India and several foreign countries participated in 'Young Innovators Programme' (YIP) 2025, an IIT Kharagpur event, and got a chance to see atoms, a spokesperson of the institute said on Saturday. For the first time in their life, students of classes 8-12 peered through the state-of-the-art high-resolution transmission electron microscope, installed at the Sophisticated Analytical & Technical Help Institutes (SATHI) centre, and saw atoms in all their intricate detail. The programme was hosted by the Students Branding and Relations Cell, IIT Kharagpur. "It was a moment that not only sparked their scientific imaginations but also brought wonders of the microscopic world to life," the spokesperson said. Over 3,500 participants from 1,800 schools across diverse regions, including India, Singapore, Denmark, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, took part in the event which spanned three rounds - online submission of project reports, ...

IIT-Kharagpur concluded its first phase of 2021-22 placement session in the second week of December, with over 1,600 job offers and 900-plus internship opportunities, a statement issued by the institute said. The season had begun with more than 500 pre-placement offers (PPO), which soon jumped to 1000-plus offers on the second day, "a milestone across all IITs", the statement said on Saturday. The institute recorded 48 offers in the CTC range of Rs 50 lakh to Rs 2.64 crore. Over 45 plus offers came from international companies, the statement said. This year, five foreign students also secured jobs at the session. More than 300 companies participated in the first phase across various sectors, including software, analytics, consulting, core engineering companies, banking and high-frequency trading. Companies that recruited students in the just-concluded session are Airbus, Accenture Japan, Da Vinci Derivatives, Excel, Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Squarepoint Capital, N K Securities

Some of the second-generation IITs that Business Standard spoke with have seen more job offers from the start of the first phase of final placements to date than compared to the previous year

Quantiphi Analytics emerged as the largest recruiter of the season till date offering 34 jobs, followed by Intel at 33

The first had 29 companies visiting the campus, including Flipkart, HSBC, American Express, IBM Research, JP Morgan, Schlumberger, Airbus, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Microsoft, ITC and UBER