Chennai: City-based SRM University has beaten its previous record in placements this year by placing over 3,500 students with 3,689 job offers from the three top IT majors.
A total of 1,500 students have received multiple job offers from the three IT companies. A Japanese company has recruited one student from the Computer Science department for 5 million Japanese yen per annum (approximately Rs 33 lakh).
While Cognizant offered 1,502 jobs, it was 1,105 by Infosys and 1,082 for Wipro. The recruitment process took place between September 19 and October 7 as part of the day 1 slot.
Pointing out that last year, SRM University placed 2,900 B.Tech, M.Tech and MCA students, university president P. Sathyanarayanan says that this year the university placed over 3,500 students so far in the three top IT companies.
This number is apart from 10 per cent of the total students who did not participate in the campus recruitment, as they opted for higher studies, and another 5 per cent deciding to turn entrepreneurs.
The average salary package ranged from Rs 3 lakh to Rs 3.5 lakh per year, with one student offered Rs 33 lakh,” Mr Sathyanarayanan said.
Apart from these 3,500-odd students placed in the three IT companies, more than 50 companies had already recruited 600 students with some corporates offering paid internship to about 200 students.
The university also expects 190 more companies to visit its campus for placement this year. “Placing more than 4,000 students from our university is a record which we have not achieved so far,” placement dean Prof
S. Ganapathy said, adding that a majority of the students from ECE, CSE and IT branches were those who got recruited so far.
Works Applications, a Japanese company that develops ERP package software series for large firms offered an annual package of 5 million Japanese yen (approximately Rs 33 lakh) to Abhishek Gupta, a final-year B.Tech Computer Science student, this year.
“This is the highest package offered for an SRM University student by a foreign firm,” said Prof N. Sethuraman, registrar of the university.
