Institute officials told news agency PTI that the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras has recorded the highest ever pre-placement offers for its students.
During the 2021-22 academic year, so far 227 Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) have been made to the students of IIT-Madras. This is much higher than what was done during the entire 2020-21 academic year. The total offers in the last academic year were 186.
The offers will continue till the commencement of Phase-I campus placements to be held on December 1. The number of offers was 170 in 2019-20 and 135 in 2018-19.
Major employers this year included Qualcomm, Microsoft, Honeywell, Texas Instruments and Goldman Sachs.
Speaking on the offers, CS Shankar Ram, Advisor (Training and Placement), IIT-Madras said, “The internship process provides a great opportunity for companies to evaluate our students who intern with them over an extended period”.
“It also helps our students learn more about the company, the roles that may be offered to them and the potential career prospects,” he added. He said that PPOs are a natural outcome of this interaction which is beneficial for both the companies and the students.
Ram confirmed that the number of pre-placement offers received in the current academic year 2021-2022 is the highest ever at the institute.
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