UPES Placements 2023: 2,000 job offers; highest salary at Rs 36 lakh

NEW DELHI: Students of the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) Dehradun have received 2000 offers in placements 2022-23. The highest salary package received by a student this year has been Rs 36 Lakh Per Annum (LPA) by Autodesk India to a BTech computer science engineering student with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

Five BTech Applied Petroleum Engineering students with a specialization in Gas or Upstream were recruited by Schlumberger at Rs 33 LPA. An MBA graduate with specialization in Oil and Gas Management was placed at Accenture Strategy and Consulting at Rs 27.83 LPA. Four other MBA graduates with the same specialization got offers at ONGC at Rs 23 LPA.

The roles offered to UPES students include business analysts, cyber security analysts, consultants, revenue managers, data analysts, software engineers, design consultants, and risk analysts. Top recruiters which participated in the placement drive are ONGC, Airbus, Boeing, Microsoft India, Zeta, Amazon, Oracle, Accenture, Infosys, Deloitte USI, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PwC, LTI-Larsen & Toubro InfoTech Ltd, and Wipro Limited.

Last year, the university received over 3800 placement offers from leading recruiters. The School of Engineering, School of Computer Science, School of Business, and School of Health Sciences and Technology achieved 100 percent placement, with students receiving job offers from research and consulting firms, IT and education companies. The highest package offered was Rs 50 LPA by Microsoft India to three students from School of Computer Science.

According to the National Institutional Curriculum Framework (NIRF), of a total of 1,634 graduates, 1,192 students were placed in the academic year 2020-21. The median salary received by the students stood at Rs 4,50,000.