New Horizons

Institute of Technology, BHU has bettered its performance over the previous year in many significant areas like salary, academic environment, and perception of the industrys HR mill. However, the institute scores low when it comes to infrastructure and industry interface. On the infrastructure count, the institutes score has dropped by 0.34%, which does not seem very significant. But on the industry interface front the drop of 19.5% assumes significance.

Within the placement parameter, IT BHU has improved upon its performance on the salary count. As compared to the maximum salary of Rs 9.14 lakh per annum offered by Microsoft in 2005-06, the institute got an offer of Rs 23 lakh from Schlumberger in 2006-07, a growth of 152%. The average salary of all companies also increased from Rs 2.87 lakh per annum in 2005-06 to Rs 3.74 lakh in 2006-07. On the other hand, the average salary of IT companies saw a marginal increase from Rs 2.73 lakh to Rs 2.91 lakh during the same period.

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	IT BHU

Also, on the placement front, the institute saw a significant rise in the number of students placed in IT/BPO companies as well as those placed across all types of companies. While there were 173 students placed in IT/BPO companies in 2005-06, there were 211 placed in 2006-07. On the other hand, as compared to 321 students placed across all type of companies in 2005-06, 387 were placed in 2006-07.

There has also been improvement in the number of companies visiting the IT BHU campus for placements. Compared to the 68 companies in 2005-06, 83 visited the campus in 2006-07. Specifically, with respect to IT/BPO companies, the number went up from 25 in 2005-06 to 32 in 2006-07.

Way to Go!

Moving up six ranks, NIT Calicut has been the second highest gainer among the Top 10 tech schools listed. The institute fared better than the previous year on all parameters except industry interface. There was a 35.5% increase in the placement score in 2006-07 over 2005-06. The infrastructure score went up 1.9%, and the score of academic environment went up 15.7% in 2007-08 over the previous year. On the industry interface count, there was a drop of 6.1% despite several tie-ups that include Robert Bosch, Aricent, Accenture, Wipro, Calsoft, Intel, and Cognizant.

The maximum salary offered increased to Rs 9.5 lakh per annum in 2006-07 after being stagnant at Rs 6 lakh in 2004-05 and 2005-06. However, it stands the lowest compared with the salary offers bagged by the rest of the tech schools in the Top 10. The average salary of all companies increased from Rs 2.75 lakh per annum in 2005-06 to Rs 3.75 lakh. The jump is higher for the average salary of IT companies, going up from Rs 3 lakh per annum in 2005-06 to Rs 5.1 lakh in 2006-07.

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	NIT Calicut

In terms of IT/BPO companies visiting the campus for placements, the number went up from 33 in 2005-06 to 41 in 2006-07. However, despite the growing number of these companies visiting the campus, the number of students placed in these through campus placement went down from 253 in 2005-06 to 244 in 2006-07. A possible reason for this can be growing preference for non-IT/BPO companies among engineering students. When it comes to all the companies visiting the campus for placements, the number went up from 58 in 2005-06 to 92 in 2006-07.

The Foreign Push

Up 13 ranks from 2006-07 Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi is the biggest gainer among the Top 10 tech institutes listed in the survey. The institute did particularly well on the salary parameter. In fact, it was successful in getting the highest salary offer among the Top 10 institutes. The offer of Rs 45 lakh per annum, an international placement, came from Schlumberger. As compared to this, HLS Asia offered the highest salary of Rs 12.4 lakh in 2005-06. A possible reason for the institute attracting the highest salaries among the Top 10, surpassing even the IITs, could be its international affiliations. NSIT Delhi has a tie-up with MIT, which could possibly have a rub-off effect. It has tie-ups with 80 universities worldwide for student and faculty exchange programs.

In terms of average salary, the IT companies improved their average salary from Rs 4.25 lakh per annum in 2005-06 to Rs 5.75 lakh in 2006-07. The average salary of all companies went up from Rs 3.8 lakh per annum to Rs 5.5 lakh during the same period.

The institute has also tried bolstering its relationship with the industry over the last two years with tie-ups with IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, HCL, TCS, Sun, Accenture, Hutch, Wipro, Aricent, Freescale, etc.

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	NSIT Delhi

On the placement front, the institute saw a surge in the number of IT and BPO companies visiting the campus. The numbers increased from 32 in 2005-06 to 43 in 2006-07. On the other hand, the number of all companies coming to the campus went up from 53 to 74 during the same period. The number of students placed in IT/BPO companies went up from 386 in 2005-2006 to 392 in 2006-2007, despite the fact that the total number of students placed across all type of companies reduced from 412 to 405 during the same period.

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The Complete Scorecard 2008

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