550 GITAM Hyderabad students placed; Highest package of 8.5 LPA: Report

NEW DELHI: The Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, Hyderabad has launched placements for the academic year 2021-22. Around 550 students have been placed with the highest salary package of 8.5 lakh per annum, as per a report from Telangana Today.

According to the report, the average package rose to 4.5 lakh per annum this year.

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“Despite the recent economic recession and pandemic, a steady number of placement recruiters participated in the recruitment drive and offered placements, ensuring a great start to their professional journey,” the report said.

The students who received placement offers included students from BTech, MBA, MTech, MSc Data Science and others, the report said.

The companies that participated in the placement drive Wipro Elite, TCS Ninja, Prodapt, Accenture, Accenture, Virtusa, Mindtree, Musigma, ENHisecure, Deloitte, Tek Systems, Birlasoft, Nineleaps, Optum, TCS Digital and Hitachi Vantara, the report said.

Some other organisations included Musigma offering a package of (30 packages for four years), Tiger Analytics (8.50 LPA), Accolite (8.00 LPA), Deloitte (7.93 LPA), Optum (7.90 LPA), Keka (7.50) LPA, TCS Digital (7.00 LPA), Amazon (18 LPA), Pegasystems (14 LPA), South India Bank (12 LPA), Byjus (10 LPA), LIDO (10 LPA), and Federal Bank (10 LPA), according to the report.

As per the report, N Siva Prasad, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and DVVSR Varma, Resident Director, congratulated the students for their achievement.

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Nathi Venu Kumar, Director, GCGC, told Telangana Today: “we have been consistently meeting the industry expectations by providing well-groomed professionals, equipped with technical, interpersonal skills to match up to the aspirations of the corporates and will continue to do so”.