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

IIT Placements: Highest number of 692 students are yet to get recruited in this year’s campus placements. In the academic year 2022-23, only 336 did not get placed.

The IIT BHU average salary package remained almost the same as the 2022-23 academic year. (Image: Official website)

Anu Parthiban | May 1, 2024 | 08:00 PM IST

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.

IIT BHU placements

Number of students registered

2021-22

1,328

2022-23

1,428

2023-24

1,735


Number of students placed

2021-22

1,078

2022-23

1,092

2023-24

1,043


Number of students not placed

2021-22

250

2022-23

336

2023-24

692

Salary package

Median salary

Average salary

2021-22

Rs 20,40,171

Rs 23,23, 945

2022-23

Rs 12,00,000

Rs 22,68,665

2023-24

Rs 20,00,000

Rs 22,85,899

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