The MTech in VLSI program at ABV-IIITM, Gwalior is a two-year program with specializations in Advanced Networks, Digital Communication, and Information Security. The annual median salary across students is noted to be 5.8 LPA in 2019.

• The faculty at ABV-IIITM, Gwalior for the MTech VLSI program are professionals in the field who come from a background of academic expertise and are well-versed with VLSI methods and processes.
• They are known to educate and train students to be acute professionals and use their knowledge to create practical solutions in the corporate world.
• Students that participate in the college’s placement drive will have the opportunity to interact with VLSI specialized companies like AMD and Altera. A
• Although it is important to note that the majority of companies that appear during the recruitment season are usually from the software sector and therefore there is a higher chance of not getting an opportunity to work at a core VLSI based firm.
• Some recruiting companies at IIITM, Gwalior for VLSI are Snapdeal, Samsung, TCS, Amazon, Adobe, Myntra, Practo, Reliance, Cisco, Alcatel, and Google.

The stipend paid varies according to the company but as per the MHRD norms it amounts to Rs 8000. Some students have also received a stipend of Rs 12,400 as per AICTE norms. So it would be ideal to conclude that the stipend ranges from anywhere between Rs 8000 to Rs 12,400.

Students are required to perform intensive research about the type of companies that they are looking to work with, considering IIITM, Gwalior offers limited placements to students from the VLSI sector. The total fees for the course amount to 4.23 lacs whereas students are required to clear the GATE exams in order to be eligible for admissions.

According to my friend at IIT Ropar, the first batch of Microelectronics and VLSI Design was from 2019-2020, where there were only 10 and 7 students for the M.Tech and Ph.D. course respectively.

• The faculties of IIT Ropar are young and energetic. 
• It’s quite early to predict placements and hence should wait for some time. 
• Being an IIT, the college is well developed, the infrastructure is decent, and the academics are great.
• The faculty of IIT Ropar for Microelectronics and VLSI Design branch of 1st semester includes 1 professor from IIT Delhi and 5 professors from IIT Bombay and Guwahati.
• The courses for the 1st semester for the Microelectronics and VLSI Design includes a total of 5 courses, 1 lab, and 1 seminar session. 
• These include Digital IC Design, RF Engineering, CMOS Analog IC Design, Semiconductor Device Physics and Modeling, CAD for VLSI Design, Circuit Simulation Lab, and Seminar Session.

Some industries visit IIT Ropar in the first semester and the selected students have to choose to work with them. The 2nd year project can be completed in any company also if a student wishes to. The department helps the student to find the company if the student wants and if not then he/she can do the project on the campus itself.

It is not just KJ Somaiya, but every college you decide to go to, find out the following, especially for post-graduate studies:

• Qualifications of the professors in your college
• The crowd of the college and scope for securing internships on different topics
• If there is any research going on in the college and if so, how is the research cell? Many M. Tech students wish to do something new and collaborate with people having the same interests as well.
• Opinions of others about the college. When you interact with the students you will come to know what places are nice and where you can hang out

A friend of mine completed her M. Tech from KJ Somaiya and her experience was average. The research cell is not great and some teachers are well versed in their subject whereas others struggle with basic knowledge.

If you are concerned about placements, those are definitely improving over the years and this college will only be a good option for you if you are not looking for placements. 

ABV IIITM Gwalior is ranked 81 by NIRF. It is recognized by UGC and AICTE. They have a student strength of 854 students. 

MTech in VLSI is a 2 year full time postgraduate course which involves engineering aspects of designing and developing IC based systems. The course is divided into 4 semesters. 

Placement Details

• 102 students were placed with the highest salary package.
• The highest salary package overall offered was 42 LPA.
• The average salary package overall offered was 14.58 LPA.
• Students graduating with MTech in VLSI Design can work in VLSI Testing, Chip Designing, Lecturer, VLSI Design Engineer, etc. 
• The top recruiting companies include Microsoft, EY, Morgan Stanley, Google, Goldman Sachs, Reliance, Tata, etc.

Faculty

• There is the head of the department, with professors, associate professor, and assistant professors. 
• A total of more than 36 full-time faculty members and 6 are adjunct faculty members. 
• Most of the faculties are Ph.D. holders and experts in the field.

Students will require 75% in their 10+2 qualifying exam and 60% in their BTech or BE exam to be eligible for admission at ABV IIITM Gwalior for the MTech program in VLSI Design. Final selection will be based on GATE scores.

As per the MHRD norms, the students are offered stipends within the range of INR 7000-13000. Approximately, this year a total of 18% students received Pre-placement offers from various companies. The list includes Cartesian Consulting, Toppr, Goldsman Sach, Inmobi, Myntra, Leap & Scale, BNY Mellon, Qubole Software, and Goibibo.

After a having a look at the M-Tech placements at IIT Bhubaneswar for the batch of 2020, it was observed that the placement rate for MTech students was 68% with companies like Adobe, Amazon, Accenture, Affine Analytics, HCL, HPCL, IOCL, ISRO, Ittiam, Infosys, KIIT, Go-Jek, and Goldman Sachs coming as recruiters and PSUs like IOCL, NCCBM, ISRO also taking part in the recruitment process. The highest placements were about 40 LPA CTC with the top recruiters being Goldman Sachs, Renault Nissan, Oracle, Samsung R and D, TCS R and D, Infosys, and Adobe to name a few. IT, Core Engineering Sectors, and education sectors drew the maximum placements followed by PSU, E-commerce and Analytics. Now moving on to VLSI while this branch is not available as a full branch for MTech at IIT Bhubaneswar, another branch of ECE is available in MTech which is communication systems although it is also named as ECE in MTech. This branch has VLSI as an elective course with 3 credits and 3 contact hours, and the above M-Tech placement statistics ought to give you an idea with respect to the placements of that branch at IIT Bhubaneswar.