IIT Patna Placements: Despite The Covid Epidemic, Average Salaries And Job Offers Have Increased

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna is one of the new IITs created on August 6, 2008, by an Act of the Indian Parliament. The institute's placement numbers have improved significantly over the years. What began as 83 offers in the BTech placement seasons of 2012-13 has increased to 239 offers in the 2020-21 academic session.

The overall number of BTech offers in 2017-18 was 192, which climbed to 210 in 2018-19 but fell to 202 in 2019-20. However, this was the institute's sole drop in the previous five placement batches. The overall number of bids climbed from 202 in 2019-20 to 239 in 2020-21 before skyrocketing to 412 in 2021-22.

The number of companies that visited the campus for placements has also increased in the past few years. The number increased from 88 in 2017-18 to 95 in 2018-19, 1-6 in 2019-20, 125 in 2020-21 and then jumped to 154 in 2021-22.

In 2022, there were 154 companies that participated, which included some of the big names such as Accenture Japan, Adani Power, Amazon Berlin, Amazon India, Amazon Luxembourg, Deloitte, Darwinbox, Flipkart, FIIT-JEE, Bajaj Auto, Bloomberg Pune, Bosch, BPCL, Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Gameskraft, Goldman Sach, Google (from London and Munich too), HDFC, Housing.com, ICICI Bank, Indeed, Inframart, Intel, Ixigo, Oracle, Paytm, Oyorooms, Mahindra and Mahindra, Mercedes Benz, Microsoft Research, Morgan Stanley, RBL Bank, Qualcomm, Samsung (from Bengaluru and Noida), Sprinklr, Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. Ltd., Synopsys, Tata Advance, Tata Digital, Tata Electronics, TVS Digital, Udaan, Uber, Unacademy, Urban Company, Viacom, Wipro, Zomato, ZS Associate, Infosys, and more.