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    Placement Report Of Mechanical Engineering Graduates

    Placement Report Of Mechanical Engineering Graduates

    Atul AdeUpdated on 09 Sep 2024, 12:24 PM IST

    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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    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

    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.

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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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