New record for IIT Madras year-end placement: 195 firms make 888 job offers

IIT-Madras's previous best was in the 2014-15 academic year when it got 1,019 offers, including for MBA.

As many as 195 companies made 888 job offers at Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) last week, giving the premier engineering college its best record in year-end placements.

IIT-M’s previous best was in the 2014-15 academic year when it got 1,019 offers, including for MBA. There were no MBA offers this year. If internships or pre-placement offers (PPOs) are included, the number of offers stands at 1,024)

As many as 1,300 students registered for phase one placements between December 1 and 8, lining up for 490 job profiles from nearly 326 companies.

“We had an excellent phase one this year…which