How are the placements of B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Madras?

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Kandarp Patel | Guide-Level 12

8 years ago

Mechanical engineering is very good and evergreen field. Talking about the placements of mechanical engineering at IIT Madras is, almost 95% ratio is seen every year. The average package of mechanical engineering at IIT Madras is around 7 to 9 LPA. Many multinational companies visit here and offer g

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Devaguptapu Venkata Sarath Chandra | Contributor-Level 6

3 years ago

It is an Indian premier institute and the IIT Madras has the best placements of the mechanical engineering and the highest pack for this branch is 1.15 crore per year and the average pack is 15.6 LPA plus perks and the big companies like Honda, Hero, Bajaj etc. Visit this college regularly.

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Konatham Abhishek | Scholar-Level 17

6 years ago

The average package of mechanical engineering at IIT Madras is around 7 to 9 LPA. Many multinational companies visit here and offer good packages to mechanical engineers. Companies like Bosch Group, Reliance Industries, Mahindra Group, Welspun, Larsen and Toubro, Tata Steel, Adani Group, Aditya Birl

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Yash Singhal | Scholar-Level 17

7 years ago

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Manish Motwani | Guide-Level 14

8 years ago

The placements for B.Tech in mechanical engineering are far better and most quality oriented. Although from all the top 10 IITs, the placements are remarkable and highest of its kind. The one thing that should be compared while selection process is the culture and the past alumni network, faculty me

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Zubin Mehta | Scholar-Level 17

8 years ago

From 2015 audited reports for Mechanical engineering, 50 students registered for placements out of which 42 were placed. The percentage of students placed was 95 percent. The median packages offered to Mechanical Engineering students were in the range of 5 LPA to 25 LPA. The average package was betw

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Deepak Singhanwal | Contributor-Level 8

8 years ago

Mechanical engineering is one of the major activities in the engineering sense and its principles are involved in the design, study, development, and construction of nearly all of the physical devices and systems. The Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Madras is as old as the college itsel

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Aditya Doiphode | Guide-Level 11

8 years ago

IIT Madras is one of the well reputed institutions in India and one of the old IITs. So, it attracts lots of good companies for placements and the statistics are pretty good as such. For 2016 for Mechanical engineering 50 students registered for placements out of which 45 were placed (BE). The perc

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Shreemad Patel | Guide-Level 14

8 years ago

Hello, for top IITs ( Kanpur, Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras ) placement are really good. Many people blame the college for the placement but it is not the fault of college, it is individual limitations. Only those who are not sincere won't get placement and being sincere is not difficult there since gen

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Priyum Agrawal | Contributor-Level 10

8 years ago

Being in the the IITs (the best hands in India), one can expect the placement to be top notch as well as almost every company wants to have a chance to recruit students from IIT Madras. While the lowest package offered for mechanical student in IIT Madras was 4 lacs, the highest placement package a

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