IIT Kanpur tops with 990 offers; Unicorns, core engineering lead placements

More than 85 per cent of its students get offers placed during the year-end placements process this week

Setting a new benchmark in placements, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has witnessed more than 85 per cent of its students getting offers placed during the year-end placements process this week.

Unicorns, including Flipkart, Myntra, Zomato, Oyo Rooms etc were among those who visited the campus for recruitment. The placements spanned varied sectors, including software and data profiles, analytics, core engineering, database management, ecommerce etc.

The 1,045 students registered with the placements cell of IIT-K were made a total of 990 job offers by 238 companies, many of whom were first time headhunters on the campus.

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