Computer Science: Placements And Salaries At India’s Top Engineering Colleges

Computer Science: Placements And Salaries At India’s Top Engineering Colleges

Edited By Maniprabha Singh | Updated on Dec 17, 2024 05:29 PM IST | #JEE Main

Based on placement data 2023-24, IIT BHU has recorded the highest salary package for CSE. The overall salary range at top IIT colleges varies between Rs 1.68 CPA to Rs 11.30 LPA. The RTI information shows that NIT Durgapur was offered Rs 81 LPA, which is the maximum CTC for CSE graduates at NITs. In terms of the percentage of students placed, IIT Jodhpur and NIT Trichy are placed at the top. Read this article for more details on the BTech Computer Science and Engineering salary packages based on the data collected for IIT and NIT placements 2023-24. Also, compare previous year information on this page.

Computer Science: Placements And Salaries At India’s Top Engineering Colleges
Computer Science: Placements And Salaries At India’s Top Engineering Colleges
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Of all the branches of engineering taught in India, Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is perhaps the most in demand. Students emerging from top institutions with a BTech in CSE tend to get the best offers and land the highest salaries during placements. This is certainly true of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), India’s premier public technical school. Here are the IIT placement details regarding the salary packages offered.

CSE Salary Package at Top IIT Colleges in India

Institute Name

Maximum Annual Salary

Minimum Annual Salary

Average Annual Salary

Placement offers accepted by students

Students placed (in percentage)

IIT BHU

16,800,000

1,000,000

3,487,933

97

89.81%

IIT Bhilai

4,211,000

850,000

_

32

51.67%

IIT Bhubaneswar

6,400,000

1,000,000

2,260,000

61

92.40%

IIT Dharwad

5,200,000

800,000

1,800,000

37

61.67%

IIT Gandhinagar

_

_

2,273,000

34

69.39%

IIT Goa

5,100,000

850,000

1,632,000

29

91%

IIT Hyderabad

9,000,000

9,000,000

_

48

76.19%

IIT (ISM) Dhanbad

5,900,000

849,000

2,477,000

124

81.58%

IIT Jammu

5,200,000

900,000

_

37

92.50%

IIT Jodhpur

5,300,000

800,000

2,631,000

100

98.03%

IIT Palakkad

4,161,750

600,000

_

32

64%

IIT Patna

3,400,000

400,000

1,130,000

138

65.09%

IIT Ropar

_

_

_

69

80.23%

IIT Tirupati

4,164,000

800,000

1,839,000

37

67.27%

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Top NIT Colleges with CSE Salary Packages 2023-24

Institute Name

Maximum Annual Salary

Minimum Annual Salary

Average Annual Salary

Placement offers accepted by students

Students placed (in percentage)

NIT Jalandhar

6,200,000

600,000

1,300,000

120

89.55%

MNIT Jaipur

6,400,000

500,000

1,933,000

_

58.20%

NIT Delhi

5,000,000

650,000

1,723,000

34

62.26%

NIT Durgapur

8,100,000

500,000

1,738,000

120

64.86%

NIT Goa

2,000,000

510,000

1,072,000

17

58.60%

NIT Hamirpur

5,000,000

800,000

1,575,000

79

66.95%

NIT Jamshedpur

_

550,000

_

107

93.04%

NIT Meghalaya

1,200,000

_

703,000

6

40.74%

NIT Mizoram

1,300,000

_

715,000

10

63%

NIT Patna

3,400,000

400,000

1,130,000

138

65.09%

NIT Puducherry

_

500,000

1,016,000

37

69.80%

NIT Raipur

6,200,000

540,000

1,461,000

79

75.96%

NIT Sikkim

1,786,000

_

1,376,000

24

_

NIT Silchar

_

650,000

1,914,000

106

63.10%

NIT Trichy

5,289,000

700,000

2,727,000

_

95.60%

NIT Uttarakhand

_

500,000

_

11

61.11%

Top Engineering Colleges with CSE Salary Packages 2021-22

IIT BHU reported the maximum annual salary for BTech CSE programme during the year 2021-22. Its students were offered as high as Rs 91.18 LPA for domestic placements. Go through the table for more information on the BTech Computer Science and Engineering salary packages at best colleges in India.

CSE Salary Package at Top Engineering Colleges in India

Institute Name

Maximum Annual Salary in lakhs

Minimum Annual Salary in lakhs

Average Annual Salary in lakhs

Placement Offer Accepted by Students

IIT BHU

91.18

15.57

35.17

67

NIT Rourkela

83.6

3.6

26.2

107

IIT Patna

61.00

7.00

33.53

66

IIT Dhanbad

55.75

5.40

26.98

113

NIT Raipur

55

6

15.86

_

IIT Jodhpur

53

9.5

26

62

IIT Jammu

52.00

12.00

23.19

36

IIT Dharwad

52

14

21.3

_

IIT Bhilai

48.64

11.50

19.89

40

NIT H

48.00

6.50

15.48

91

IIT Goa

48

10

21.59

_

VNIT Nagpur

34.25

5

16.04

129

NIT Meghalaya

32

5.5

14.23

22

IIT Palakkad

30.1

9

22.12

42

NIT Puducherry

20.24

7.5

13.25

55

NIT Sikkim

14.5

_

10.24

45

Computer Science And Engineering: Jobs Data

How well do Computer Science Engineering students do across colleges? Careers360 analysed the placement performance of one batch of BTech CSE students who graduated from the top engineering colleges, as ranked by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2024. Data obtained through an RTI application shows that CSE departments across institutions routinely posted the highest – or close to the highest – placement rates in the 2023-24 placement season. The highest of 98 per cent of the registered CSE students secured a job at IIT Jodhpur. With 51.67% per cent, the lowest placement percentage was of IIT Bhilai.

Three top IITs - Delhi, Kanpur and Kharagpur did not share any information about the total students enrolled and so have been omitted from the list of analysis in the graph below. It is based on 2020-21 placement data.

Placement Performance Of CSE BranchPlacement Performance Of CSE Branch

BTech CSE Placement Rates

Just like the electrical department of top engineering colleges across India, the CSE department too had a placement better than the overall placement of each institute.

IIT Madras is the top engineering college as ranked in NIRF 2021, yet its CSE placement percentage was one of the lowest. The only ones to place all registered students were IIT Ropar and two NITs [Surathkal and Calicut].

BTech CSE Placement 2020-21 (In %)

Institution

Overall Average Placement Rate

CSE Placement Rate

IIT Gandhinagar

69

75

IIT Hyderabad

69

95.83

IIT Madras

73

81.25

IIT Patna

68

95

IIT Ropar

82

100

IIT ISM Dhanbad

68

88.08

IIT Roorkee

74

93.06

IIT Guwahati

78

93.98

IIT Kharagpur

86

98.18

IIT Delhi

86

94.87

IIT Kanpur

81.22

95.24

NIT Rourkela

89

98.82

NIT Surathkal

92

100

NIT Calicut

87.3

100

Jadavpur University

75

95

Out of the 44 students enrolled at IIT Madras, CSE department, 32 students sat for the placement programme in 2020-21 and only 26 CSE students were offered placements.

As per the data shared via the RTI application, IIT ISM Dhanbad had three students more registered for placement than the total enrolled students. This could be due to lateral entry however, there was no clarity in the RTI so, we have used the information as it was provided.

BTech In CSE Placement In Numbers

Institution

Students enrolled

Students Registered

Students Placed

Placement Rate / Registered (In %)

Placement Rate / Enrolled (In %)

IIT Gandhinagar

33

28

21

75

63.64

IIT Hyderabad

50

48

46

95.83

92

IIT Madras

44

32

26

81.25

59.09

IIT Patna

61

60

57

95

93.44

IIT Ropar

61

62

62

100

101.64

IIT ISM Dhanbad

148

151

133

88.08

89.86

IIT Roorkee

76

72

67

93.06

88.16

IIT Guwahati

87

83

78

93.98

89.66

NIT Rourkela

98

85

84

98.82

85.71

NIT Surathkal

98

98

98

100.00

100

NIT Calicut

145

124

124

100

85.52

Jadavpur University

63

60

57

95

90.48

IIT Kharagpur

-

55

54

98.18

-

IIT Delhi

-

78

74

94.87

-

IIT Kanpur

-

84

80

95.24

-

Computer, Software Engineering: Average Salary

The CSE branch commanded some of the highest salaries and was instrumental in raising the average salary for each of the institutions.

The present analysis does not include salary details from IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Roorkee as their RTI responses did not include this data.

CSE departments at some colleges show more than 100 per cent better salary packages than the overall salary package.

Computer Science Engineering Salaries (In Lakh Per Annum)

Branch wise Average Salary

Overall Average Salary

Average salary- CSE

Variance (In %)

IIT Gandhinagar

10.5

16.64

58.5

IIT Hyderabad

19.98

24.99

25.1

IIT Madras

17

32.06

88.6

IIT Patna

13

24.24

86.5

IIT Ropar

12

18.85

57.1

IIT ISM Dhanbad

12

24.47

103.9

IIT Guwahati

19.35

29.17

50.7

IIT BHU

17.64

30.08

70.5

IIT Kanpur

20.19

33.88

67.8

NIT Rourkela

7.7

15.18

97.1

NIT Surathkal

11.67

16.44

40.9

NIT Calicut

8.51

17.14

101.4

Jadavpur University

8.3

19.2

131.3

CSE: Maximum, Minimum Salary

IIT Madras had a low placement percentage compared to other colleges but topped the salary chart for the highest maximum salary, as well as the highest minimum salary offered to students. The state-run Jadavpur University clocked the third highest salary offered.

CSE: Annual Maximum, Minimum Salary (In Rs Lakh)

Institute

Maximum Salary

Minimum Salary

IIT Madras

64.27

11

IIT BHU

64.27

9

IIT Guwahati

64

7

IIT Patna

54.57

6.5

Jadavpur University

52

3.6

IIT ISM Dhanbad

45.03

6.3

IIT Hyderabad

45.03

8.93

NIT Rourkela

45

3.7

NIT Calicut

43.31

4

NIT Surathkal

43

7

IIT Kanpur, IIT Ropar and IIT Gandhinagar did not share the maximum and minimum salary details.

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