Before 2017, the MTech Mechanical department saw only 40%-50% placements with PPOs which were places of internships for students as well; as part of the MTech project. MTech Mechanical in CAD CAM saw 10-15 placements in 2017; most of the students did get internships with Siemens, Fiat Chrysler, and Cummins.
The department has good labs, over 27 faculty members, and 85 seats with a distribution of 18-25 each for the 4 MTech specializations.
The table below highlights the placement facts of the mechanical engineering department for MTech in 2018-19
M.Tech Specialisations | On-campus Placement Percentage | Average Salary |
Machine Design | 24% | INR 5.38 LPA |
CAD/CAM | 22.22% | INR 4 LPA |
Thermal | 29.16% | INR 4.53 LPA |
Auto | 36% | INR 3.15 LPA |
Placement Statistics
The latest data of 2020 placements has not been made available yet. There has been a 20% improvement in the placement rate of MTech students from 2017 into 2019. The BTech level still has a much higher placement rate of about 85%-97%. Students are free to decide through the placement data shared above.
IIT Bhubaneswar is part of new IITs that were established by the government. Even though the Institute is new the placements of IIT Bhubaneswar are good and rising in an exponential manner. In 2019, the placement rate for M-Tech was 69% and for Mechanical Engineering, it was 83%. Maximum placements offer for MTech students were received from Core and PSU sectors. ISRO, NCCBM, IOCL, etc are a few of the PSUs that took part in the placement drive. The average CTC offered was 11.4 LPA. The academics are also good for Mechanical Engineering in IIT Bhubaneswar. The faculty and staff of the mechanical department in IIT Bhubaneswar are excellent and its workshop is well equipped with all modern machines and technical instruments.
MTech in Mechanical Engineering comprises various specializations. The cutoff for each specialization varies. Usually, the highest cut-off is for machine design then fluid and thermal science followed by CAM and computational mechanics. If you are attending the counseling you have to specify the preference order among these four. So depending on your rank, you might get admission to a specialization you did not want to study.
I recommend that you attend the counseling and don’t make assumptions beforehand. Sometimes the wrong train leads you to the right destination. It’s better to explore all options to determine what’s best for you.
Placements of any college depend on its Alumni Network and this fact can’t be denied that being a 100-Year-Old institution IIT BHU has a wide range of alumni working in every area. Placements here are comparable to other IIT’s. MTech in Mechanical at IIT BHU has a good placement percentage. IIT BHU has Training and Placement Cell working hard for the placement of their students.
There are several PSUs like IOCL, ISRO, BPCL, HUL, CIL, ONGC, etc. who came to the campus for placement drive. Besides there are other private firms too like Bajaj, Maruti, Jaguar, Trident Automobiles, etc. that visit campus too for recruiting students from MTech in Mechanical Engineering. With good placement percentage students are placed in well knows firms with an average pay package of 8.10 Lakhs per annum and the highest package offered was 30 LPA CTC.