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Sunday, Sep 12, 2004

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Campus placement yields good results at NIT-C

By Our Staff Reporter

KOZHIKODE, SEPT. 11. The campus placements at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C) have registered a record with 320 of the total 525 students securing placements since the process began two months ago.

The revival of Information Technology has put the campus recruitment process on the upward graph. The salary package offered this year has touched an all-time high of Rs.5.8 lakhs, offered to two students of Electronics and Communication by the multinational IT company, Synopsys. It was the first-ever visit by the company to the NIT-C campus for recruitment.

About 30 students have been offered Rs.4 lakhs-plus as annual salary. The average salary so far has been the same as that of last year, at Rs.3 lakhs. The lowest salary too has been the same as that of last year, Rs.1.8 lakhs. The process has not yet ended and it is likely to continue till April 2005 — the figures are likely to go up by then.

28 companies

This year as many as 28 companies have given placements to 320 students in the B.Tech., M.Tech. and MCA streams of NIT-C. A total of 318 students got placement from 56 companies when last year's placement process ended in April 2004.

Twenty of the companies that visited the campus this year are IT firms. The remaining eight companies belong to the core sector. More core sector companies are expected in the months of September and October when they usually come to the NIT-C for recruitments.

T.V. Gopalan, professor and head of the department of training, placement and linkage, NIT-C, told

The Hindu that more than 65 per cent of the B.Tech. students have already secured jobs (229 out of 348 B.Tech. students). Among the 146 M.Tech. students, 70 students (48 per cent) have secured jobs. About 70 per cent of the 30-odd MCA students have already got placements.

IT firms

The major IT companies to visit the NIT-C campus this year include Wipro, Trilogy, Motorola, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services and IBM. A major company in the core sector, Texas Instruments, visited the campus after a gap of two years.

Dr. Gopalan said the students who had secured jobs are again given a `dream option' to attend one more interview.

MCA students also hit the jackpot with two students bagging jobs with an annual package of Rs.4.2 lakhs each offered by Oracle, a multinational firm.

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