IIT Kharagpur yet to place 41% students, reveals RTI data

The median salary stood at Rs 18 lakh per annum (LPA) in 2022-23, and Rs 16 LPA in 2021-22. (Illustration by Suneesh Kalarickal)

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur is yet to place 41 percent of its students of the 2023-24 batch in the ongoing placement season, as per right to information (RTI) data shared with Moneycontrol.

The Career Development Centre (CDC) of IIT Kharagpur, in a RTI reply to Dheeraj Singh, founder of Global IIT Alumni Support Group, said while 2,660 students registered for the placement process, only 1,564 managed to get job offers as of June 12, 2024.

To be sure, the RTI did not provide the median and average salary recorded so far.

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In the last placement season, 33 percent of students at IIT Kharagpur were not able to secure placements. The CDS said that 2,490 students registered for placement in 2022-2023 placement season, however, only 1,675 received placements while 574 received pre-placement offers (PPOs).

Similarly, in 2021-22 placement season, IIT Kharagpur managed to place 1,615 students out of 2,256 who registered. To be sure, 404 got PPOs.

The median salary stood at Rs 18 lakh per annum (LPA) in 2022-23, and Rs 16 LPA in 2021-22.

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IIT Kharagpur joins various old and new IITs where students are struggling to secure jobs as companies turn cautious on freshers hiring. This includes IIT Roorkee, IIT Hyderabad, IIT-BHU, IIT Ropar etc.