IIT BHU Placements: 40% students not placed this year; highest in last 3 years

NEW DELHI: Around 40 percent of students in Indian Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU) were not placed during the IIT-BHU placements in the academic year 2023-24, an RTI reply revealed. This is the highest number of students, 692, who did not get hired in the last three years.

As per the RTI data shared by Dheeraj Singh, an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, IIT-BHU informed that 39.8% students did not get placed in 2023-24 and 23.52% did not get hired in 2022-23.

Although the median salary saw a rise, the average salary package received by the IIT BHU students remained almost the same as 2022-23. As per the latest placement data, the median salary (till date) was recorded at Rs 20 lakh and average salary package at Rs 22.85 lakh, which is just Rs 17,234 higher than 2022 average salary.

The situation is similar at other IITs as well. In another RTI reply, it was found that nearly 44% students of IIT Indore and 33% of IIT Kharagpur students are yet to be placed this year.

IIT BHU placements data of last 3 years

Here’s the number of students registered for the IIT BHU placements in the last three years and salary packages received.