Over 80 per cent of engineers remain unemployable

The employability outcome of Indian engineers sees no massive progress as over 80 per cent continue to be unemployable, reveals Aspiring Minds' latest National Employability Report. The first large-scale study on employability was done in 2011, but there has been no significant improvement since.

The report is based on a study of more than 150,000 engineering students from 650-plus colleges who have graduated in 2015. Delhi records the highest employability, followed by Bengaluru and Mumbai-Pune in the study on employability across metro cities. The southern cities continue to have the lowest employability figures.

The variation in employability is very high within the same industry. The IT product employability in Delhi is as high as 11 per cent and as low as 0.94 per cent in Chennai. The study of employability by gender reveals a healthy trend of almost equal figures among males and females. This makes each role devoid of any gender-bias. Roles like sales engineer, non-IT, associate ITeS/BPO and content developer report slightly higher employability of females.