How is information technology at NIT Surathkal?

IT department is nothing less than just excellent. The faculty here is immensely experienced and talented with Ph.D. degrees from IISC Bangalore or some reputed foreign institute. 

• The heads of the department are well established and experienced in the field of Information Technology.
• A number of passed-out students from NIT Surathkal have gone abroad for future studies from the top international universities such as MIT, Stanford University, Yale University to name a few.
• The placement statistics of 2019 are a sight to the eyes! The highest package offered was 42 LPA and the company was Deshaw based in Hyderabad.
• Their claim of 100% placements is absolutely correct in every batch that passes out. Roughly 280 companies visited the campus recruitment with the average package being 18 LPA. 
• Some of the top recruiters here are Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Uber, Sprinkler, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan.

23 students were also selected from NIT Surathkal for the google summer of code (GSOC) and it also scored 13th rank in the ICPC Asia contest. One of the most successful startups is PRACTO, which is a venture of NIT Surathkal alumini.