Which university offers better placements LPU or SRM?

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Samreen Begum · Answer

Placed aspirants at Lovely Professional University were above par in placement records for 2025 with more than 2,225 recruiters starting from Microsoft, Google, Cognizant, and TCS, who together offered more than 6,000 job offers to the Class of 2025. B.Tech Robotics students saw the highest package being ₹2.5 crore and ₹1.03 crore on the next, while the averages for the top 10% across programs like MBA and CSE touched ₹13.6 LPA. The placement rate was between 85-90%, out of which more than 2,200 students attained packages over ₹10 LPA, supported by exquisite industry training and participation from Fortune 500 companies.

Vridhi · Answer

In general if I say both the university provide placements. I don't know about SRM but in details I can talk about LPU as I have studied in LPU itself and I had the pleasure of acquiring good placement. In short LPU placement process starts as soon as you enter your final year. In order to ensure good placement no. The university passes you through a rigorous training session of PEP that confirms our selection. PEP runs under the Centre for Professional Enhancement at Lovely Professional University that was established with the mandate to promote professional growth and bridge the gap between the academic environment and the industry. Centre for Professional Enhancement focus on holistic growth of students with following objectives: 1. To prepare students for placement and internship. 2. To counsel students on different career pathways in Corporate Jobs, Higher Studies India and abroad. 3. To holistic personality development of students through soft skill & life skills classes. 4. To improve IQ of students through Verbal, Analytical and Logical Reasoning classes. 5. To identify training need of students by periodic external as well as internal assessment. 6. To reduce the academia- industry gap Such exhaustive preparatory sessions are conducted before the placement drives and these results in the promising no. Of placement that LPU showcases. The highest package so far for B.Tech is of a B.Tech CSE student Tanya Arora who has bagged Rs 42 Lacs/annum job offer from Microsoft. This is the highest job offer received by engineering fresher in the region for the year 2019. Tanya has been offered the role of Software Engineer at Microsoft India R&D Centre in Hyderabad. LPU has maintained records of placement from consecutive last three years. Indeed you can be rest assured what LPU shows is what LPU has earned!

Arshiya Singh · Answer

Lovely Professional University is such a place where different students come from across the country and form a unique blend and become LPU students. LPU offers all its students an endless scope of opportunities besides just academics excellence and qualities like perseverance, as you will find relevant events happening around the campus halls for every discipline, and extracurricular activities and sports! Reason why LPU is better:- 1. Lovely Professional University has become a leading and a progressive educational hub in North India. Owing to the global approach that they adopt to instill the practicalities of their respective careers into the students has made LPU the most preferred educational destination among the students these days. Lovely Professional University is rapidly growing up large on the scale of education in the country. Recently being inducted high in the ranking by NIRF. 2. Placements-The placements are comparatively high in LPU than Sharda University. About 90% of the students get placed every year in our department. Many well-known companies visit here for placement. If you have a fine knowledge of the subject, you will surely get placed. The highest package goes from 7 Lacs to 26 Lacs, and the average is up to 5 Lacs. LPU provides ample opportunities to each and every of the eligible students to secure good placement. There is a huge opportunity to get placed in a good MNC through Lovely Professional University. They give you a very good amount of training before you go into campus placements.

Pratima Banerjee · Answer

In general if I say both the university provide placements. I don't know about SRM but in details I can talk about LPU as I have studied in LPU itself and I had the pleasure of acquiring good placement. In short LPU placement process starts as soon as you enter your final year. In order to ensure good placement no. The university passes you through a rigorous training session of PEP that confirms our selection. PEP runs under the Centre for Professional Enhancement at Lovely Professional University that was established with the mandate to promote professional growth and bridge the gap between the academic environment and the industry. Centre for Professional Enhancement focus on holistic growth of students with following objectives: 1. To prepare students for placement and internship. 2. To counsel students on different career pathways in Corporate Jobs, Higher Studies India and abroad. 3. To holistic personality development of students through soft skill & life skills classes. 4. To improve IQ of students through Verbal, Analytical and Logical Reasoning classes. 5. To identify training need of students by periodic external as well as internal assessment. 6. To reduce the academia- industry gap Such exhaustive preparatory sessions are conducted before the placement drives and these results in the promising no. Of placement that LPU showcases. The highest package so far for B.Tech is of a B.Tech CSE student Tanya Arora who has bagged Rs 42 Lacs/annum job offer from Microsoft. This is the highest job offer received by engineering fresher in the region for the year 2019. Tanya has been offered the role of Software Engineer at Microsoft India R&D Centre in Hyderabad. LPU has maintained records of placement from consecutive last three years. Indeed you can be rest assured what LPU shows is what LPU has earned!

Lipika Dhingra · Answer

LPU has formed a contemporary record in the whole of North India by placing its student Tanya Arora with Microsoft, who bagged a package of 42 LPA. Additionally, other record-breaking placements for LPU includes: the highest Placement (Engineering) Rs. 42 Lacs per annum (Microsoft) the highest Placement (Management) Rs. 19.75 Lacs per annum (SOBHA Developers) the highest Placement (Design) Rs. 15 Lacs per annum (Trident Group) Amazon recruited LPU students on a package of 28 LPA The highest internship stipend is up to 80k per month. (which is really hard to get in other universities) The reason why LPU has better placement records than other universities is because of its unique career cell. It enables students in getting relevant work experience to complement their studies and develop appropriate skills and knowledge. Resume writing, aptitude development workshops among other activities are hosted for the overall development of students and prepare them to crack the interviews easily. Alumni of LPU are working with top-notch brands globally with a package of more than 1 crore. Right from Google to Apple, students are working worldwide. Some of the top recruiters are Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Accenture, Cognizant, Amazon, TCS, IBM, Informatica, Capgemini, SAP, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Bosch, Ashok Leyland, Voltas, Mercedes Benz, Honda, Daikin, Renault Nissan, Sony, Adobe, Virtusa, KPIT, Morgan Stanley, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Trident Group, Infineon, KPMG, Colgate-Palmolive and the list still goes on. The best thing I like about LPU about placement is, they provide placement classes to all the students from the very first year who opt for the placement. With the help of this, they can prepare themselves for placements till the pre-final year because the companies will start visiting for the recruitment of students from a pre-final year. Some of the students go for internships also in their final year.

Poonam Angural · Answer

Though both the universities are good in terms of academics but being an alumni of LPU let me explain the things in detail. LPU has become the landing place of many leading industries for recruitment. It has many top rankings in placements. The students of LPU has been placed in the top companies with high salary packages. Apart from placements, many eminent companies approach LPU to hire students for internships. Some key features about the placement are :-Even during this unprecedented time of COVID almost 7200+ offers were generated and still there is more to come. There are around 1000+virtual placement events that are conducted so far. Around 285+ companies offered dream CTC of 5 Lac per annum to 10 Lac per annum 62+ companies offered super dream CTC of 10 LPA and above. LPU students have secured offers from Amazon at a dream package of up to Rs. 30 Lac per annum. Other students pursuing internships with Amazon, may be extended full-time positions against Pre-placement Offers. Tanya Arora, a final year B.Tech Computer Science Engineering student of Lovely Professional University, has bagged a whopping Rs 42 Lac job offer from Microsoft. In response to the pandemic, the team promptly decided switching to virtual mode of placement and internships to help students find jobs. Lovely Professional University managed to conduct more than 1000+ Virtual Placement Events including Internship drives, Live Projects, Case Studies, Competitive Events, Guest Lectures, Workshops, etc. Amid the Pandemic. The placement season from March 2020 till April 2021 saw offers crossing 7297+ and counting. Not just in India, LPU students are making a mark around the world. One of our very own is now working at Google HQ in Palo Alto with an illustrious package of Rs. 1 Crore plus! Fortune 500 Companies have hired around 4500 students from Lovely Professional University. The wide array of employers that hire LPU students is remarkable. I hope this helps you in making a choice.

Puneet Singh · Answer

Dear Vaibhavi, I have no idea of SRM, so being alumni of LPU, I would like to share the details of placements at LPU with you. LPU created a new record in the whole of North India by placing its student Tanya Arora with Microsoft, who bagged a package of 42 LPA. Besides, other record-breaking placements for LPU includes: the highest Placement (Engineering) Rs. 42 Lacs per annum (Microsoft) the highest Placement (Management) Rs. 19.75 Lacs per annum (SOBHA Developers) the highest Placement (Design) Rs. 36.5 Lacs per annum (SIXT India) Amazon recruited LPU students on a package of 28 LPA The highest internship stipend is up to 80k per month. (which is really hard to get in other universities) The reason why LPU has better placement records than other universities is because of its unique career cell. It enables students in getting relevant work experience to complement their studies and develop appropriate skills and knowledge. Resume writing, aptitude development workshops among other activities are hosted for the overall development of students and prepare them to crack the interviews easily. Alumni of LPU are working with top-notch brands globally with a package of more than 1 crore. Right from Google to Apple, students are working worldwide. Some of the top recruiters are Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Accenture, Cognizant, Amazon, TCS, IBM, Informatica, Capgemini, SAP, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Bosch, Ashok Leyland, Voltas, Mercedes Benz, Honda, Daikin, Renault Nissan, Sony, Adobe, Virtusa, KPIT, Morgan Stanley, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, Trident Group, Infineon, KPMG, Colgate-Palmolive and the list still goes on. The best thing I like about LPU about placement is, they provide placement classes to all the students from the very first year who opt for the placement. With the help of this, they can prepare themselves for placements till the pre-final year because the companies will start visiting for the recruitment of students from a pre-final year. Some of the students go for internships also in their final year. LPU received an Employability award by Aspiring Mind in 2020 for best placement Institute in India. LPU is ranked 10th best university for Training and Placement in 2019 by Knowledge Review LPU got the Golden Star Award 2018 for being the University with the best placements in India. I hope this answer is helpful to you. ! Thanks!

Avtar Dhillon · Answer

I am not quite sure about the placements of SRM but The students of LPU have been placed in the top companies with high salary packages. The placements have been divided as dream packages and bulk recruiters. Apart from placements, many eminent companies approach LPU to hire students for internships. A Salary package of 28 LPA was offered by Amazon. Lovely Professional University offers excellent placement assistance to students of all the courses. Students enrolled in Diploma, UG, PG and Lateral Entry courses of LPU are offered placements/ job opportunities in top companies across the globe. In recent years, LPU has made a strong impact on global placements. Top companies across the globe such as Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Cognizant, Accenture etc. Visit the LPU campus every year to recruit students for various roles. LPU has been recording 100% placements in most of its courses. So far, companies for international roles hired thousands of LPU students. Many companies participate in LPU placements every year and offer lucrative packages to students. LPU has collaborated with various industries/ companies for different purposes, and these companies prefer hiring LPU students for various roles. LPU offers Professional Enhancement Programme so that students attain skills necessary for the job in the relevant field. At the same time, the varsity conducts mock placement drives to build self-confidence in students. LPU has a separate placement committee for each stream such as engineering, architecture, management, arts, sciences etc. It depends on the course which you would pursue, because the fees of all the courses from multiple domains are completely different from each other. Hence, if someone is aware what is the per semester fees for the course, then you can just deduct 30% fees from it, that is going to be applicable fees for you per semester. For more details, you could call the Toll Free: 1800 102 4431 Toll Free: 1800 274 0615 for better understanding on the same.

Arnav Sethi · Answer

The most common and important thing is usually being asked for every college or university. I have spent 4 years in LPU and yes of course I have been placed in good company with the handsome package. Honestly saying LPU has a great role in this. When I joined LPU I was not good at speaking, presenting but LPU gave me all required inputs through PEP classes and Soft Skill Classes which actually groomed me. LPU has a separate department of career services which helps students in every step. The university has been ranked high by various outer agencies with regard to the placements of the students. LPU is conferred with National Employability Award 2020 by Aspiring Minds for the 7th time in a row for most Employable Students and one among the top colleges and universities in India with one of the highest Employability rates. LPU is ranked 10th Best Training and Placements Institutions in India for 2019 by The Knowledge Review. Business Today ranked LPU among the Top 100 Private State Universities in the Placement Performance Category.

Niharika Singh · Answer

Hi, LPU has an outstanding placement record. Even during the pandemic, there was no full stop on placements. The university has been ranked high by various outer agencies with regard to the placements of the students. LPU is conferred with National Employability Award 2020 by Aspiring Minds for the 7th time in a row for most Employable Students and one among the top colleges and universities in India with one of the highest Employability rates. LPU is ranked 10th Best Training and Placements Institutions in India for 2019 by The Knowledge Review. Business Today ranked LPU among the Top 100 Private State Universities in the Placement Performance Category. LPU is a proud recipient of the Golden Star Award for being University with Best Placements in India. The placement preparation is started from the very first year. Students are being given placement-oriented classes and even company-specific input also. Thousands of LPU students have got placed in top MNCs and are working all over the Globe. The highest Package Availed by Engineering (CSE) Student MS Tanya Arora is 42 LPA for batch 2020 by Microsoft. Students are placed in WorkIndia at 35 LPA; CLOUDERA at 31 LPA; AMAZON at a package of 30 LPA. An average package ranges from 5-12 LPA. Every year visiting companies escalate in number and till date University has recorded the highest placements in North India. Thanks.

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