The salary package for B.Tech Mechanical Engineering ranged from Rs 54 LPA to Rs 6.50 LPA. As per the RTI data, the maximum CTC at IIT BHU stood at Rs LPA, making it one of the best-performing colleges among others. Rs 33.00 LPA has been offered to NIT Trichy students during the placement 2023-24 drive. Here are the details compiled for the IIT and NIT salary packages. Know about the highest CTC, average CTC and minimum CTC offered at most prestigious colleges in India.

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Placement Report Of Mechanical Engineering Graduates

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Top IIT Colleges with BTech Mechanical Engineering Salary Packages 2023-24

Among the top engineering colleges in India, mechanical engineering showed promising placement rates of the main core branches. Careers360 analysed the placement data in detail of the BTech Mechanical batch of 2023-24 from reputed engineering colleges across the nation. The data was collected via the Right To Information (RTI) application and there were institutions which did not disclose or gave unclear data. Wherever such data was not found, those institutions were excluded from the analysis.

B.Tech Mechanical Engineering Salary Package at Top IIT Colleges

Institute Name	Maximum Annual Salary	Minimum Annual Salary	Average Annual Salary	Placement offers accepted by students	Students placed (in percentage)
IIT BHU	5,400,000	700,000	1,903,914	103	64.38%
IIT Bhilai	1,810,000	700,000	_	15	38.46%
IIT Bhubaneswar	2,700,000	500,000	1,200,000	50	94.30%
IIT Dharwad	1,700,000	700,000	1,100,000	8	22.45%
IIT Gandhinagar	_	_	1,552,000	25	59.52%
IIT Goa	3,500,000	600,000	1,253,000	17	71%
IIT Hyderabad	4,795,000	4,795,000	_	24	44.44%
IIT (ISM) Dhanbad	5,103,000	700,000	1,408,000	63	60.58%
IIT Jammu	4,400,000	500,000	_	22	70.97%
IIT Jodhpur	5,100,000	700,000	1,950,000	56	88.88%
IIT Palakkad	2,000,000	600,000		33	62.50%
IIT Patna	1,887,000	300,000	751,000	75	81.52
IIT Ropar	_	_	_	33	57.89%
IIT Tirupati	4,164,000	800,000	1,095,000	18	41.86%

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Top NIT Colleges with BTech Mechanical Engineering 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	1,750,000	500,000	788,000	82	100.00%
MNIT Jaipur	2,700,000	450,000	1,009,000	_	79.80769
NIT Durgapur	1,895,000	450,000	958,000	124	70.05%
NIT Goa	750,000	500,000	650,000	5	21.70%
NIT Hamirpur	1,800,000	420,000	697,000	92	92.93
NIT Jamshedpur	2,400,000	_	856,000	_	_
NIT Jamshedpur	_	500,000	_	95	92.23%
NIT Kurukshetra	1,700,000	500,000	935,000	85	49.42
NIT Meghalaya	1,145,000	360,000	683,000	14	66.66
NIT Mizoram	1,450,000	_	745,000	15	100%
NIT Patna	1,887,000	300,000	751,000	75	81.52%
NIT Puducherry	1,188,000	500,000	795,000	11	57.9
NIT Raipur	1,948,000	500,000	993,000	77	78%
NIT Sikkim	2,400,000	_	856,000	16	_
NIT Silchar	856,000	_	_	_	_
NIT Trichy	3,300,000	600,000	1,355,000		90.1
NIT Uttarakhand	1,170,000	600,000	_	8	47.06%

Top Engineering Colleges with BTech ME Salary Packages 2021-22

IIT Patna and IIT Jammu are the best-performing colleges in India based on BTech Mechanical Engineering salary packages offered during the placement drive 2021-22. For more details, refer to the table below.

BTech ME Salary Package at Top Engineering Colleges

Institute Name	Maximum Annual Salary in lakhs	Minimum Annual Salary in lakhs	Average Annual Salary in lakhs	Placement Offer Accepted by Students
IIT Patna	54.57	6.00	16.97	52
IIT Jammu	52.00	6.00	15.12	13
IIT Jodhpur	51	7	19	34
IIT BHU	48.75	9.00	20.46	109
IIT Bhilai	41.78	8.50	14.72	28
IIT Dhanbad	36.50	7.00	14.25	93
NIT H	35.00	5.00	8.17	77
NIT Raipur	21.84	3.6	7.56	_
IIT Dharwad	21.7	7.5	14	22
IIT Palakkad	19	6	12.86	17
NIT Rourkela	19	3.6	9.71	91
VNIT Nagpur	18.95	3.37	9.4	114
IIT Goa	16	4	12.27	_
NIT Meghalaya	12	5.5	8.5	16
NIT Puducherry	10.1	4.32	6.68	22
NIT Sikkim	10	_	6.69	21

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Mechanical Engineering: Jobs Data

As per the previous year data, fourteen premier engineering colleges in the country together averaged a placement rate of about 76 per cent for their BTech in Mechanical Engineering graduates who registered for placement in 2020-21. All 14 are among the top 25 public technical institutions in the country, as ranked by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF 2021). IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur and NIT Surathkal did not share the total enrolled students data in the RTIs and so these institutes were removed from the analysis for the graph below.

Mechanical Engineerig: Overall Placement Performance

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Mechanical Engineering Placement Rate

More than half of the colleges have a better placement percentage in the mechanical branch as compared to the overall average placement percentage of the colleges.

In 2020-21, the best placement rate for Mechanical Engineering was at NIT Surathkal Karnataka (NITK) which beat even the top IITs. Equally surprisingly, was the fact that Jadavpur University, a state university in West Bengal stood second.

BTech Placement: Mechanical Engineering 2020-21 (In %)

Institution	Overall Average Placement Rate	Mechanical Engineering Placement Rate
IIT Kharagpur	85.79	82.26
IIT Delhi	85.76	90.57
IIT Ropar	82	73.58
IIT Kanpur	81.22	81.67
IIT Guwahati	77.91	81.69
IIT Madras	73	76.92
IIT Gandhinagar	69	85.71
IIT Hyderabad	69	60
IIT ISM Dhanbad	68	61.95
IIT Patna	68	60.87
NIT Surathkal	91.98	94.35
NIT Rourkela	89	84.42
NIT Calicut	87.3	79.38
Jadavpur University	75	92.86

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About 23 per cent of mechanical engineering graduates from one of the top engineering colleges in India, IIT Madras, could not secure a placement. It wasn’t only other IITs or NITs that performed better in placing their graduates, but even Jadavpur University, which is a state university, did better than IIT Madras.

BTech In Mechanical Placement In Numbers

Institution	Enrolled	Registered	Placed	Placement Rate / Registered (In %)	Placement Rate / Enrolled (In %)
IIT Delhi	-	53	48	90.57	-
IIT Gandhinagar	33	28	24	85.71	72.73
IIT Guwahati	86	71	58	81.69	67.44
IIT Hyderabad	48	45	27	60	56.25
IIT ISM Dhanbad	117	113	70	61.95	59.83
IIT Kanpur	-	60	49	81.67	-
IIT Kharagpur	-	62	51	82.26	-
IIT Madras	59	52	40	76.92	67.8
IIT Patna	50	46	28	60.87	56
IIT Ropar	68	53	39	73.58	57.35
NIT Calicut	142	97	77	79.38	54.23
NIT Rourkela	94	77	65	84.42	69.15
NIT Surathkal	-	124	117	94.35	-
Jadavpur University	105	84	78	92.86	74.29

Mechanical Engineering Jobs: Average Salary

The data was available for all four core branches- chemical, civil, mechanical and electrical engineering. The mechanical branch had an average salary of around 11.21 per cent per lakh per annum and it had the lowest average salary among these core engineering branches. All the below-mentioned mechanical engineering institutes have lower salary packages than the overall average salary package of the institute.

IIT Delhi and IIT Kharagpur couldn’t disclose this data in the RTI response, so this analysis did not include the salary details of these two institutes.

Mechanical Engineering Salaries (In Lakh Per Annum)

Branch wise Average Salary	Overall Average Salary	ME Average Salary	Variance (In %)
IIT BHU	17.64	14.11	20.01
IIT Gandhinagar	10.5	8.35	20.48
IIT Guwahati	19.35	16.24	16.07
IIT Hyderabad	19.98	17.13	14.26
IIT ISM Dhanbad	12	8.72	27.33
IIT Kanpur	20.19	17	15.8
IIT Madras	17	13.36	21.41
IIT Ropar	12	10.2	15
NIT Calicut	8.51	6.64	21.97
NIT Rourkela	7.7	6.86	10.91
NIT Surathkal	11.67	9.4	19.45
Jadavpur University	8.3	6.52	21.45

Mechanical Engineering: Maximum, Minimum Salary

IIT Delhi, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Ropar, IIT Kanpur and IIT Kharagpur were not included in the analysis as these institutions could not share their maximum and minimum salary details.

IIT ISM Dhanbad was in the top place in terms of maximum salary. NIT Rourkela and Calicut had the lowest salary among all the institutes.

Mechanical: Maximum and Minimum Annual Salary (In Rs Lakh)

Branch wise	Minimum Salary	Maximum Salary
IIT Guwahati	7	34
IIT Hyderabad	6	29.53
IIT Indore	4.2	31.5
IIT ISM Dhanbad	4.5	45.03
IIT Madras	7.5	28
IIT Patna	6.5	33.5
NIT Calicut	3.5	27.51
NIT Rourkela	3.5	15
NIT Surathkal	3.75	23.25
Jadavpur Uni	3.6	17

Among the four core branches of engineering, Mechanical engineering showed the best placement but the lowest annual salary package in 2020-21 placement program

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