IIT Gandhinagar Placements 2023: Average Package: INR 15.35 LPA & Highest Package: INR 62 LPA

IIT Gandhinagar placements have been good for 2022. A total of 250 companies took part in the campus drive this year. The average and highest CTC offered this year were INR 20.77 LPA and INR 50 LPA, respectively. The average CTC for the top 25% of the batch was INR 23.25 LPA. Accenture, Oracle, Samsung Research, ITC, Infosys, and Deloitte, were among the major recruiters that took part in the placement drive. 

IIT Gandhinagar has not released its M.Tech placement figures for 2023. However, students of M.Tech get offers from John Deere, Johnson Controls, Belcan India, Bombardier Transportation, Marvell Semiconductor, Hyundai Motors, RKC Infrabuilt, MCX India, and others.

M.Tech placements at IIT Gandhinagar are almost completely driven by core jobs. B.Tech placements, on the other hand, also rely on non-core jobs. This is why the placement percentage and average salary for M.Tech stand lower than those for B.Tech.

One of my seniors told me that for M.Tech at IIT Gandhinagar, the average package goes to around INR 7-9 LPA. M.Tech placements completely rely on core jobs. Some other companies that give offers to M.Tech students include General Electric, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hatch Associates, GIFT, etc. 

Overall, the M.Tech placement figures for IIT Gandhinagar are quite promising and they will further improve with time.

M.Tech placements at IIT Gandhinagar are just mediocre considering the fact that most companies prefer freshers and thus UG students are given more preference in placements. Students are given 2 or 3 chances with high packages in Electrical in the range of 10–20 LPA.

Some of the companies that recruited students from the Electrical branch in the past years are Texas Inst., Marvell, John Deere, Johnson Controls, Belcan India, Bombardier Transportation, etc.

Overall, IIT Gandhinagar despite being a new IIT has made its mark in the global market. The students are provided enough foreign university exposure and are encouraged to do research work as well. The institute not only strengthens your concepts but also gives you the most coveted IIT tag. 

IIT Gandhinagar should be your last choice if you are willing to get placed in MNCs, the Private sector, or even PSUs. In IIT Gandhinagar Placements 2023, around 164 students sat for placements out of which 125 were placed. The placement percentage dropped from 92% to 76.22%.  

Here is a detailed preview of the IIT Gandhinagar placement scenario for 2022 

The students who receive foreign internships have no will to pursue higher studies. The placements are pathetic in the sense that even students with a CPI of greater than 8.5 get placed in companies that an average college student would get easily. Overall, IIT Gandhinagar is too focused on placements and does not encourage preparing for competitive exams.

Before I tell you the exact reason you need to understand that the highest packages every year for BTech at any IIT come from the Computer Science batch. Now the question is why isn’t the situation similar for IIT Gandhinagar? Well, IIT Gandhinagar did not have a B.Tech. CSE course until 2016. As a result, the average package was calculated on the basis of the packages of students in Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Civil, and Material Science Engineering.

Now, the first CSE batch of IIT Gandhinagar graduates in 2020, and despite the ongoing pandemic, the average package of the institute as a whole rose from 8 LPA to 12 LPA. This in itself speaks highly of the placement scenario here which is at par with other new IITs like IIT Bhubaneswar or IIT Patna. 

Moreover, IIT Gandhinagar has higher packages for almost every branch, be it Chemical, Material Science, or Civil Engineering. So judging the institute solely on the basis of average OKC gates is not justified. IIT Gandhinagar has a leader approach and packages aren’t the only concerns of the students here who are more protected towards research.

BTech in materials science from IIT Gandhinagar opens doors to a plethora of career opportunities in industries such as aerospace, automotive, electronics, energy, and healthcare. 

• Students who have completed this course can work in research and development, quality control, design, or production. 
• The most common job roles offered are materials engineer, metallurgist, product development engineer, research scientist, and quality control specialist. 
• People who are interested in higher studies can go for a master's or PhD degree to specialize in a particular area of materials science.

 The future prospects can be further understood by placement statistics. IIT Gandhinagar Material Science and Engineering placements have been tabulated below

However, the core opportunities are less and most students end up with non-core job profiles such as Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Management Trainee, Research Analyst, and Consulting profiles. In the technical domain, you can be selected for automobile sector jobs, DRDO, material science firms, aviation industry jobs, and other industrial firms that visit.

IIT Gandhinagar has a good track record of placements in the civil engineering sector. Some of the core companies that visit the campus for placements in the civil engineering field are:

• Larsen & Toubro (L&T)
• Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE)
• Hindustan Construction Company (HCC)
• Tata Projects Limited (TPL)
• Gammon India Limited
• AFCONS Infrastructure Limited
• Shapoorji Pallonji and Company Limited
• Punj Lloyd Limited
• Simplex Infrastructure Limited
• Bridge and Roof Company (India) Limited

This is not an exhaustive list, and other companies may also visit the campus for placements.