Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Placement
Report 2006-2007

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About IIT Guwahati

Indian Institute of Technology

Guwahati was established in 1994.
It is located in a campus of 700
acres. With hills and lakes inside
the campus, and with the mighty
Brahmaputra flowing nearby, the
campus is one of the most beautiful
in the country. With a campus
conducive to learning, with world
class facilities, with a young and
vibrant faculty, with some of the
best students of the country, IIT
Guwahati is the place to study in, is
the place to work in, and is the
place to recruit from. We have
programmes offering the following
degrees: B.Tech, B.Des, M.Sc,
M.Tech and Ph.D.

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 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Departments

™ Computer Science & Engineering (CSE)

™ Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE)
™ Mechanical Engineering (ME)
™ Civil Engineering (CE)
™ Chemical Engineering (CL)
™ Biotechnology (BT)
™ Design (DD)
™ Physics (PH)
™ Chemistry (CH)
™ Mathematics (MA)
™ Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS)

Academic Centres

™ Centre for Energy
™ Centre for the Environment
™ Centre for Nanotechnology
Service Centres
™ Computer and Communication Centre
™ Central Instrumentation Facility
™ Centre for Education Technology
™ Centre for Mass Media Communication

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 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Key Statistics
ƒ No. of students registered for placement
(BTech+BDes+MTech) : 342

ƒ Number of students placed

PLACEMENT 2006-2007 (BTech+BDes+MTech) : 315
ƒ Highest package (Rs. in Lacs per annum)
IIT Guwahati has an impeccable campus
BTech : 32.27
placement record. Our students have MTech : 11.39
secured challenging and highly paid
ƒ Average pakcage (Rs. In Lacs per annum)
positions in top ranking companies/ BTech+BDes : 6.16
organizations. Their abilities are well MTech : 5.11
attested by the excellent reports from the
ƒ Participating Companies : 78
recruiting companies.

192 184
200

135
150 119

100
44
50 17
15 12

0
BTech BDes MTech MSc

No. of Students No. of Students Placed

Figure 1: Number of students registered for placement and the number

placed in different programmes for the session 2006-2007.

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Salary Offered 2006-2007
Average Package Branch-wise
BTech & BDes

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CSE ECE ME CE BT CL DD

Avg. Package 8.32 5.1 5.37 5.1 6.15 8.12 4.77

Figure 2: Average package (Rs in Lacs) for BTech and BDes

students for the placement session 2006-2007.

MTech

0
CSE ECE ME CE CL

Avg. Package 7.03 5.14 4.39 2.91 3.66

Figure 3: Average package (Rs in Lacs) for MTech students for the
placement session 2006-2007.

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Growth over the years…

Number of students (BTech, BDes and MTech)

and number of companies

350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
2000- 2001- 2002- 2003- 2004- 2005- 2006-
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Students 111 160 192 192 233 325 342

Companies 24 22 19 44 62 76 78

Figure 4: Number of students for placement and companies visited year-wise.

Number of students over the years

BTech & BDes MTech

250 133 135

207 140
192
200 120 105
100 82
150 123 130
110 80 69
99 61
100 78 60
33
40
50
20
0 0
2000- 2001- 2002- 2003- 2004- 2005- 2006- 2000- 2001 2001- 2002 2002- 2003 2003- 2004 2004- 2005 2005-2006 2006- 2007
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Figure 5: Year-wise number of UG (BTech + BDes) students Figure 6: Year-wise number of MTech students taking part in the placement
taking part in the placement process. process.

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Our Recruiters
for the session 2006-2007

Absolutdata Acctunture Adobe Ashok Leyland

Aricent Bentley Systems BPCL Byte Consulting

CADopia C-DOT Chembiotech Cisco

Cognizant Conexant Cosmic Circuits Covansys

DE Shaw DRDO Embedded Infotech Evalueserve

Fair Isaac Fand Infonet Fluent India Futures First

GE Global Anaytics Global Logic Google

HCL Headstong HLL Honeywell

Hughes Systique IBM IDEB Projects Informatica

Infosys Technology IOCL L & T Ltd L&T Ltd ECC

Mahindra & Mahindra M. N. Dastur Manhattan Associates Microsoft

MindTree Nevis Networks Niksun NRL

NTPC Nvidia, Bangalore Nvidia, Pune Onmobile

Oracle Oracle (Server Tech) Pangea3 PCS

PWC Redpine Signals Reliance Communication Reliance Industries

Sasken Schlumberger SEW Construction Shell Technology

Samsung, SISO ST Microeletronics Strand Life Science Symantec

T.I.M.E Tata Motors Tata Technologies TCE

TCS Tejas Networks Unitech Veveo

Wipro Yahoo

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Placement Procedure

Placement for 2007-2008 session will

start from December 2007.

Batch Sizes for 2007-2008

Disciplines BTech BDes MTech MSc

Computer Science & Engineering 50 -- 41 --

Electronics & Comm. Engineering 50 -- 44 --

Mechanical Engineering 48 -- 51 --
Placement Procedure
Civil Engineering 24 -- 38 --
™ Companies are invited through e-mail messages, phone
calls and faxes.
Biotechnology 22 -- -- --
™ Companies interested in recruiting IITG students have to
fill up the Job Announcement Form (JAF) downloadable Chemical Engineering 21 -- 24 --
from our website.
Design -- 19 -- --
™ The Placement Cell scrutinizes the job announcement
forms of all companies and dates for campus visit are
allotted to the companies accordingly. Physics -- -- -- 26

™ The pre-placement talks are held at the Institute during Chemistry -- -- -- 27

which the companies make presentations about their
operations and job profile(s) offered. Mathematics & Computing -- -- -- 22

Total 215 19 198 75

Faculty In-Charge, Placement :
Grand Total : 507
Dr. Ratnajit Bhattacharjee
Associate Professor,
Electronics & Communication Engineering & Contact Person:
Faculty In-Charge, Training & Placement
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Mr. Jiban Ch. Barman Mr. Supriya Das
Guwahati - 781 039, INDIA Staff, Training & Placement Staff, Training & Placement
Tel: +91-361-2582171 Tel: +91-361- 2582175 Tel: +91-361- 2582175
Fax: +91-361-2582174
Mobile: +91-99544-98116
Web site: http://www.iitg.ac.in/placement For any query, please mail us at placement@iitg.ernet.in