KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, achieved a cent percent placement with 6200 job offers from 750 plus companies for about 5000 eligible students from the School of Technology, School of Management (KSOM), School of Rural Management (KSRM), School of Biotechnology (KSBT), and School of Law (KLS).
It also witnessed a significant jump in the average pay package in the campus placement drive for the 2023 graduating batch. This year, the average CTC crossed Rs. 8.2 lakh, while the highest touched Rs. 63 lakh, placing KIIT in the league of top National Institutes in terms of pay offered to the students in the campus placement.
KIIT, founded by eminent educationist and social activist Prof. Achyuta Samanta, took shape as an institution of higher learning in 1997. Since then, it has been recording near-total placement in all academic programs, irrespective of macroeconomic and job market scenarios. After it was declared a Deemed to be University by the Govt. of India in 2004, KIIT has redefined professional education in the country and set benchmarks in teaching pedagogies and research outputs.
In the KIIT School of Technology, over 5200 job offers were made by 450 plus companies, with more than 1800 students receiving multiple offers. About 2000 were Dream Offers with an average CTC of Rs. 8.20 LPA. The maximum number of offers were made by Capgemini followed by Bosch Global Software Technologies with 302 and 242 offers respectively.