Excelsior Correspondent
CHANDIGARH, May 1: A record number of 3750 Engineering students were selected during the campus placements at Chandigarh University, in which more than 240 multinational companies participated.
“Chandigarh University has established new benchmarks in campus placements for Engineering students in placement session 2018-19 as there was a jump of 30 percent in number of companies thronging campus for recruitments,” said Dr R S Bawa, Vice-Chancellor, Chandigarh University.
Big names such as Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Hewlett Packard, SAP Labs, Samsung, L&T recruited engineering students while a jump of 70 percent was witnessed in number of offers given this year, he added.
Dr Bawa further added that of the total 240 Engineering sector companies, more than 100 MNCs offered pay-package of more than Rs 5 LPA while number of companies offering package of more than RS 10 LPA touched 25 this year. It is notable that highest package of Rs 31.77 LPA was offered by global E-Com giant Amazon.
The placements for Computer Science Engineering and IT branch dominated during 2018-19 as more than 2030 students got selected during campus placements this year. World’s top IT giant Microsoft selected Computer Science and IT Engineering students consecutively for last three years, while number of the selections have increased three times and touched 15. India’s leading IT Company Wipro (394), Capgemini (217), Mindtree (101) while the global IT giant IBM also selected record number of 196 engineering students which is highest number of selections made in any campus in North India. For the Mechanical, Aerospace, Automobile and Mechatronics engineering branches, more than 115 companies selected 530 students offering package upto Rs 9 LPA. .
Number of MNCs for the selection of Civil and Chemical Engineering students touched 35 which selected more than 178 students during campus placement session. International Construction Company, Leighton selected more than 15 Civil Engineering students during campus placements and highest package touched Rs 15 LPA. While talking about placements of Electronics & Communication and Electrical branches, Vice-Chancellor said, “More than 37 companies recruited 628 engineering students from these branches and the highest package offered touched Rs 10 LPA”. On one hand selection of Electronics & Communication Engineering students were done by top notch telecom & mobile manufacturing companies which included Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communication, Verizon, Lava while electronics and home appliance companies like Panasonic, Samsung also selected the students from these branches.
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