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Placement Report Of Mechanical Engineering Graduates
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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The last three years’ closing ranks of all NITs for CSE courses are given below.
NIT JEE Mains cut-off | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | |||
Institute | Opening Rank | Closing Rank | Opening Rank | Closing Rank | Opening Rank | Closing Rank |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | 659 | 1449 | 299 | 1224 | 176 | 1509 |
NIT Karnataka, Surathkal | 1191 | 1827 | 14 | 1615 | 966 | 1984 |
NIT Warangal | 1521 | 2409 | 1043 | 2186 | 889 | 2413 |
NIT Rourkela | 2442 | 3431 | 591 | 2940 | 2529 | 3786 |
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad | 2730 | 4594 | 2417 | 4191 | 2758 | 4777 |
NIT Calicut | 3651 | 5222 | 2614 | 4482 | 2483 | 5256 |
Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur | 3027 | 5601 | 1501 | 4711 | 2684 | 4909 |
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur | 4442 | 6359 | 4555 | 5795 | 4920 | 7087 |
NIT Kurukshetra | 5180 | 7037 | 4472 | 6000 | – | – |
NIT Delhi | 2363 | 7651 | 2438 | 8018 | 4278 | 9930 |
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat | 6343 | 8130 | 5587 | 7113 | 5052 | 7741 |
NIT Jamshedpur | 6378 | 8902 | 4935 | 7944 | 3260 | 9204 |
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal | 5942 | 9249 | 6217 | 8830 | 6409 | 9370 |
NIT Durgapur | 6565 | 9836 | 5973 | 8765 | 6848 | 10070 |
Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar | 7991 | 11262 | 6330 | 10957 | 9028 | 11017 |
NIT Hamirpur | 9637 | 12586 | 8376 | 12236 | 9929 | 12426 |
NIT Silchar | 8010 | 12665 | 5736 | 11930 | 8606 | 12818 |
NIT Raipur | 8140 | 13559 | 10323 | 13177 | 10110 | 12773 |
NIT Goa | 10279 | 13640 | 7914 | 12511 | 8584 | 12604 |
NIT Patna | 10529 | 14996 | 9288 | 14442 | 8125 | 13964 |
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur | 13917 | 16765 | 6068 | 14635 | 8043 | 13711 |
NIT Andhra Pradesh | 11739 | 18183 | 10309 | 18548 | 11839 | 17272 |
NIT Uttarakhand | 16359 | 18491 | 14598 | 18039 | 14432 | 18447 |
NIT Puducherry | 11429 | 19758 | 6318 | 18515 | 12546 | 17305 |
NIT Agartala | 13104 | 22013 | 8121 | 20298 | 14010 | 20102 |
NIT Meghalaya | 20712 | 24074 | 14656 | 20039 | 15911 | 19175 |
NIT Srinagar | 15080 | 26171 | 12751 | 21839 | 12931 | 22814 |
NIT Sikkim | 15389 | 26616 | 23245 | 28284 | 19566 | 24093 |
NIT Arunachal Pradesh | 27500 | 30607 | 22046 | 28514 | 25273 | 29087 |
NIT Manipur | 26617 | 33098 | 15616 | 30611 | 17658 | 29644 |
NIT Mizoram | 35504 | 37751 | 31598 | 33181 | 28938 | 31336 |
NIT Nagaland | 32717 | 39594 | 22429 | 31391 | 24324 | |
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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) |
5,400,000 | 700,000 | 1,903,914 | 103 | 64.38% | |
1,810,000 | 700,000 | _ | 15 | 38.46% | |
2,700,000 | 500,000 | 1,200,000 | 50 | 94.30% | |
1,700,000 | 700,000 | 1,100,000 | 8 | 22.45% | |
| _ | _ | 1,552,000 | 25 | 59.52% | |
3,500,000 | 600,000 | 1,253,000 | 17 | 71% | |
4,795,000 | 4,795,000 | _ | 24 | 44.44% | |
5,103,000 | 700,000 | 1,408,000 | 63 | 60.58% | |
4,400,000 | 500,000 | _ | 22 | 70.97% | |
5,100,000 | 700,000 | 1,950,000 | 56 | 88.88% | |
2,000,000 | 600,000 | 33 | 62.50% | ||
1,887,000 | 300,000 | 751,000 | 75 | 81.52 | |
| _ | _ | _ | 33 | 57.89% | |
4,164,000 | 800,000 | 1,095,000 | 18 | 41.86% |
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) |
1,750,000 | 500,000 | 788,000 | 82 | 100.00% | |
2,700,000 | 450,000 | 1,009,000 | _ | 79.80769 | |
1,895,000 | 450,000 | 958,000 | 124 | 70.05% | |
750,000 | 500,000 | 650,000 | 5 | 21.70% | |
1,800,000 | 420,000 | 697,000 | 92 | 92.93 | |
2,400,000 | _ | 856,000 | _ | _ | |
_ | 500,000 | _ | 95 | 92.23% | |
1,700,000 | 500,000 | 935,000 | 85 | 49.42 | |
1,145,000 | 360,000 | 683,000 | 14 | 66.66 | |
1,450,000 | _ | 745,000 | 15 | 100% | |
1,887,000 | 300,000 | 751,000 | 75 | 81.52% | |
1,188,000 | 500,000 | 795,000 | 11 | 57.9 | |
1,948,000 | 500,000 | 993,000 | 77 | 78% | |
2,400,000 | _ | 856,000 | 16 | _ | |
856,000 | _ | _ | _ | _ | |
3,300,000 | 600,000 | 1,355,000 | 90.1 | ||
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 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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Download EBookAbout 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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