How are the placements of B.Tech in civil engineering in IIT, Madras?

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Juhi Bansal | Guide-Level 14

8 years ago

India Institute of Technology, Madras is one the foremost institute of national importance in higher technological education, basic and applied research in 1956 and in IIT, Madras a annual technical festival which name "Shaastra" and is the first ISO 9001:2000 certified student festival in the world

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Kundan Singh | Guide-Level 12

8 years ago

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras is one of the top IITs of the country. Placement in each branch is excellent. Last year highest package offered in civil engineering is 16 lakhs per annum and lowest was Rs 4.2 lakhs . Average package is around Rs 9 lakhs per annum which is very good. Bel

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Kandarp Patel | Guide-Level 12

8 years ago

Greetings, I would like to mention that, IIT, Madras is known as one of the best colleges for civil engineering. There are awesome packages offered in placements for civil engineering at IIT, Madras. Almost 95% ratio is seen every year. The scope of civil branch is quite good. The minimum.package o

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Zubin Mehta | Scholar-Level 17

8 years ago

Last year placements of IIT, Madras for Civil engineering invited some top-notch organization like following:- 1. Amada soft India Pvt. Ltd. - 2. Lodha Group 3. Ashok Leyland 4. Carthero technologies Pvt. Ltd. 5. Cisco systems 6 . Samsung Electronic 7. Cognizant Technologies 8. Hindustan Copperi 9

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Harsh Ranjan | Scholar-Level 17

8 years ago

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is an elite engineering and technology school located in Chennai (formerly Madras) in southern India. Here few Detail about placement in civil engineering for batch 2016-17 In B.Tech Degree Total Student Registered:- 57 No. of Student Not regist

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Aditya Doiphode | Guide-Level 11

8 years ago

Placements are not too good in civil as the jobs are pretty less compared to the number of students graduating every year. That's why even in premier institutes like IITs, NITs and BITS you will see civil lagging as compared to other departments. The entire civil sector is on a slow growth path as o

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