Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, has recorded the highest number of offers it has received in the first phase of placement season which concluded Saturday.
As many as 888 offers were made by 195 companies, including the 136 pre-placement offers, taking the total number of offers to a record 1,024. The previous record for the highest placement offers was 1,019 in 2014-15, an IIT-M release said.
Microsoft, Intel Technology, Citibank, Micron Technology, Qualcomm were some of the top companies that made most number of job offers to its students, the release said.
It said around 1,300 students had registered for the campus placement season during 2018-19 and there were more than 490 job profiles from nearly 326 companies during the phase I of placements held between December 1 and 8, 2018.
“We had an excellent Phase I this year in spite of the reduced duration of only eight days. The demand for students in computing and analytics sectors was strong”, the release quoted IIT Madras, Advisor(placement), Prof Manu Santhanam as saying.
“We expect more companies to come in Phase II”, Prof Santhanam said. Companies engaged in research and development recorded the maximum number of placements making 346 offers followed by IT (290), analytics and finance verticals (248), the release added.
