The placement reports of NIT Jamshedpur are overall good. But, the placement percentage and the average packages you will receive depends on the branch. Both small-scale industries and large-scale industries visit the placement drive. TATA Steel is one of such large-scale recruiters at the campus. 

The departments that are apparently doing well in terms of placements are CSE, EEE, Metallurgy, and Manufacturing. These are a few branches that you can consider. There are several students who obtained chances to be placed in their core sector. The National Metallurgical Limited (NML) is centered around the same place, which makes it an added advantage to the students of the metallurgical branch. 

Here is a brief highlight of the 2020 placements at NIT Jamshedpur.

You can visit the official website for more placement-related details. NIT J Facebook page is also helpful for getting placement-related information.

This is one of the stories that my friend from NIT Jamshedpur shared with me. It is his friend’s story.

Name of the Company: ZS Associates

It is a dream analytics company for many.

Place: Jadavpur University (Pool Campus)

Let us refer to the person as ‘X’.

• 13 candidates were made to sit in the room after the final interview round. Except for X, all the 12 students’ names were called one after the other and were given the company’s coffee mugs and pens. 
• X asked the placement coordinator about his selection to which he said “sorry, you got rejected by the company.” This broke his heart. He had studied hard for the company’s placement and got rejected at the last round.
• He was about to leave the place when he heard HR call out his name from behind. He told him that he was on the waiting list and the VP of the company will take his interview which will be a telephonic interview the next day morning. This gave X a little hope.
• He had to leave for Jamshedpur, so he booked an auto. But, on the way, he got the call which was from the VP. He immediately stopped the auto and looked for a quiet place. He went to the “Ganga Ghat” which was seemingly quiet. But, it seemed crows did not like it.
• The VP was furious about this and told X to find a calm place and call back. Sadly, there was no such place around that X was aware of.
• He made a call to his friend. She informed him about her PG but, it was a girls' PG and boys were not allowed inside. Since he had no other option, they thought of giving it a shot.
• He rushed to the PG. At the entrance, they checked for the security guard who was fortunately not around. He went inside his friend's room and was done with his interview after an hour. He booked an auto to return to the station.
• He received a call while in the auto. It was from ZS Associates. As soon as he received the call, he heard “Congratulations, you are selected.”

While the lady was sorry for not being able to give him the coffee mug and pen, he was thankful to her for the good news.

Students prefer mechanical at NIT Jamshedpur than any other branch.

The placement of the mechanical branch is very good at NIT Jamshedpur. If you do not have any backlogs, you will definitely get placed. Companies like Tata, Hyundai, Hero, Hp, BPCL, Suzuki, etc., come for placements. If you are a very good student, you will have good chances of getting an internship in the third year.

In the 2021 placement drive which was conducted virtually, 75% of the students were placed. The process was still ongoing when this data was published.

The top recruiters were:

• Amazon
• Deloitte
• Axis Bank
• Tata Power
• Vedanta
• Nokia
• Bajaj Auto
• One Plus
• Info edge

The highest package offered was INR 30 lakhs per annum and the average package stood at INR 12 lakhs per annum.

NIT Jamshedpur is a tier- 3 Indian Engineering College and it fairs well compared to some other NITs like Raipur, Durgapur, Jaipur in terms of placements of Metallurgical branch students. 

• More than 100 companies pay a visit to NIT Jamshedpur each year to continue the recruitment. This number keeps on increasing every year.
• Non-core companies are known to offer 6-8 LPA whereas core companies offer 7-8 LPA. 
• A number of companies such as TATA Steel, TATA Tinplate, Vedanta group, JSW, JSL, etc regularly take a part in the NIT Jamshedpur’s recruitment. 
• TATA is known to recruit a maximum of its employees from NIT Jamshedpur.
• For the 2021 batch, the department witnessed 75% placements offers. The average package offered was 12 LPA.

Jamshedpur in itself is fortunate to have a number of steel companies and therefore the metallurgy students here have that to their advantage. The exposure, the competitive environment ensure that students obtain a number of opportunities for training and internships.

Moreover, this branch has a lot of scopes not just in our country but abroad too. Also, metallurgy is the oldest branch in NIT Jamshedpur.

CSE placements at NIT Jamshedpur are quite popular. It obviously depends on how much interest you have in coding. If you are passionate about coding and you can continue doing it throughout your life, you will surely score well and receive a good job.

Infosys, Amazon, Oracle, Philips, Microsoft, L&T, IBM, Capgemini, Samsung, and TCS are known to pick deserving students every year.

The following table shows the 2021 placement statistics for CSE at NIT Jamshedpur:

The highest payment is often offered to students who are top coders of NIT Jamshedpur. These are the students who also have a little knowledge about C, C++, and Java so that it keeps you at par with all other aspiring employees and enthusiasts.

While you are at the campus, you will find a lot of time to work on your interests, passion, and creativity. With a number of inter-college and within college competitions, you receive amazing exposure and experience.

One of my friends was a former student of this institute, and he was 2015 pass out batch. As per his advice, you would definitely face a difficult time getting success and fulfilling your dream if you opt for Production Engineering. 

However, a small number of students get jobs in the core sector after studying this engineering stream. If you are satisfied with the jobs in IT companies, like Infosys, TCS and so on, you can go for this subject.

In the following, a brief overview has been given about the placement facts of this institute.

However, my friend has studied Metallurgical Engineering in this institute, but a maximum number of his friends was from Production Engineering Stream. Thereby, the student must act wisely.