Placement Report Of Mechanical Engineering Graduates

Placement Report Of Mechanical Engineering Graduates

Edited By Atul Ade | Updated on Sep 09, 2024 12:24 PM IST | #JEE Main

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.

Placement Report Of Mechanical Engineering Graduates
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

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 PerformanceMechanical Engineerig: Overall Placement Performance

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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