Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 2: Chandigarh University has once again proved their leadership in campus placements in Northern India by clocking 5000 plus job offers for 2021 passing-out batch.
The global COVID-19 pandemic seems to have no effect as more than 500 multinational companies conducted virtual campus placement drives for the students of Engineering, MBA, Hotel Management, Pharmacy, Bio-Technology, Architecture and other programs.
This is stated by Satnam Singh Sandhu, Chancellor, Chandigarh University during a media interaction at Chandigarh.
“As the economy picked-up after lockdown, the companies started rolling out their recruitment process which shifted to online mode this year. The placement session for 2021 batch kicked-off in the month of July 2020 and within three months the University registered 1000 plus job offers as 150 plus companies had completed their recruitment process by then” said Satnam Sandhu.
While giving details about the campus placements, Prof Himani Sood, Senior Vice-President, Chandigarh University said, “As the campus placements are still on, more than 350 core engineering branch companies have already selected students of Computer Sciences, IT, Electronics and Communication, Electrical, Mechanical, Automobile, Civil, Petroleum, Mechatronics and Aerospace Engineering branches. The highest package for Engineering touched Rs. 35 LPA which was offered by US based MNC Arcesium for the CSE/IT branch students”.
Prof Himani further added that, “There has been exponential growth in number of companies offering packages of 10 LPA or more. The placement session 2021 saw 10 MNCs offering 25 LPA or more while till date there are 18 multinationals which have offered a package of 15 LPA or more”.
The average salary package offered to the students of Engineering has touched 8 LPA while that in the case of MBA students it has touched 7 LPA, Prof Himani said.
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