How are the placements of B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT, Kanpur?

Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur is one of the best government colleges of India. It is ranked among top 5 top 5 best engineering colleges of India. It offers many courses are out of which aerospace engineering is one of them. For Aerospace engineering, it has 55 seats. It is well known for its great infrastructure, knowledgeable faculty with the experience of about 5 to 10 years in the teaching field. Facilities provided are hostel, wifi, sports complex and labs with better equipment and machines. The placement cell of IIT-Kanpur is one of the best cells in India as it is really capable of attracting the major companies of the world as well as of India. There are many major companies that come for the placement of Aerospace engineers and they are as follows: Accenture, Genpact, Google, HAL, IBM, Infosys, ISRO, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Yahoo. Due to lack of job requirements in core companies related to Aerospace engineering, most of the students were placed into the non-core companies like Accenture, Infosys, etc. Average salary provided by the companies is about 8-9 LPA. Highest salary provided by the companies is about 17 LPA. Hope it helps.

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Hello, if you are genuinely interested in Aerospace Engineering, the undergraduate course offered by IIT Kanpur is second to none as far as India is concerned. It has its own airstrip, Flight lab, and Wind Tunnel. I think that professors also have good relations with the air force base nearby - Chakeri Air Force Station (Kanpur Airport). You will get a lot of facilities here. I mean you have your own air field to work on and you can do well in this course if you are genuinely interested. IIT Kanpur has about 6/7 wind tunnels; low speed, high speed, supersonic, etc., and a good infrastructure for related research. The core jobs available in aero B.Tech are only nominal and there were very few core recruiters for Bachelors; Mitsubishi, HAL, NAL, etc. However, for masters students, there are more options in the form of more recruiters like GE, Honeywell, Airbus, etc. the placement scenario is not bad. Most of the batch ends up getting placed in good companies. Many students do not sit for placements as they prefer to go for higher education. Past recruiters in the department include General Electric, Airbus, Eaton Technologies, Honeywell, Michelin, Mitsubishi, ISRO etc. In aerospace engineering, most companies are looking for expertise and therefore converting to a dual degree is advantageous. Apart from these core companies, many other companies remain open in software, consulting, finance and banking etc categories. Hope this helps! All the Best!

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There's this thing about aerospace engineering in India that if you really want to get into an aerospace company, a B.Tech degree is not enough to get you there unless you have an extraordinary profile and that is the reason why majority of students take UK Masters programme from one of the IITs, if they can make it there. Other than that, if by any chance you manage to get admission at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, you get yourself One Step Closer to getting a placement at ISRO. Coming back to the question, a B.Tech degree will just help you to get an average placement package of 8 to 9 lacs in one of the IT firms, marketing companies or banking jobs even though the college is an IIT. Although some students in the B.Tech batch manage to get placed at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, and other such core companies visit the college during the placement season but sometimes come back without even recruiting one of them.

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Talking about aerospace engineering in IIT-Kanpur. Everyone knows IIT-Kanpur is one of the best government colleges in India. The core companies that visit the campus prefer the dual degree or M.Tech students. Moreover, B.Tech. But it is not like that B.Tech students do not get placed or have no scope. Big companies like Eaton, GE, Airbus and Honeywell, visit the campus. Apart from these, companies like L&T and ISRO also visit the campus. If we talk about the faculties out there, you will get the finest bunch of supportive and humble faculties. Aerospace is one of the oldest branches of IIT-Kanpur. Hence, research facilities are excellent. IIT-Kanpur has one of the best lab facilities in India. Apart from this, the students also get placed in non-core companies like Accenture. Students also get placed in IT companies like Infosys, etc. The average package is 7-9 LPA. This is the overall scenario in IIT-Kanpur for the aerospace engineering. Hope this will help.

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Aerospace Engineering is one those disciplines which should be followed by people with genuine interest. It is not a core branch and if you are doing it out of some external influence, you can be faulty and sad later on. It is still catching momentum in the country and is a prolific branch. So, we cannot expect it to compete with the placements in those branches. It may not have the best placements but the Department of IIT-Kanpur is surely the best. They are very focused on the branch and the students. They have more facilities than any other IIT. They have their own airstrip, wind tunnel and other necessary amenities. There are many options open to an individual, they can take up a job in the core area or they can go for the software and IT firms. It all depends on their choice, but I would suggest going with core unless you want bucks. The average package is lower than the others, it is around 5.8 LPA, but money should not be the motivation while working in your area of interest. About 70% students get placed every year. Choose wisely.

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