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National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, the top-ranked NIT on the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), has placed an average of 71 per cent of its graduating BTech students in jobs over the past seven years. NIT Rourkela in Odisha, ranked third, has done better with job drives, placing around 88 per cent of their students over the same seven years.
For the past seven years, the ministry of education’s National Institutes Ranking Framework (NIRF) has been ranking engineering colleges based on a range of factors including an institution’s placement record. To rank an engineering college for one year, NIRF considers placement data, including numbers placed and median salary, for three years.
The NITs are Institutes of National Importance and, run by the central government, are highly regarded among public engineering colleges. NIT Tiruchirappalli has ranked at the top among all NITs since the NIRF rankings began in 2016. In 2020, NIT Karnataka replaced Rourkela as the second best NITs, a position it had held since 2016. NIT Warangal is the fourth highest ranked NIT. In NIRF 2017 and 2018, NIT Calicut was at rank 44 and 50. After 2018, NIT Calicut constantly improved its position, becoming one of the top five NITs for the last five years. And in the latest year it is the only NIT whose rank has improved compared to the previous year.
Therefore, NIT Tiruchirappalli, Karnataka, Rourkela, Warangal and Calicut are the top five NITs across the country and were selected for this analysis because they have remained in the top five for the last five years. Also, all five have always been among the top 50 engineering institutes since the ranking started .
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Among all the top five NITs, although NIT Rourkela had the highest placement percentage in 2022, it has decreased by 7 per cent compared with its last seven year placement performance. NIT Calicut had a placement percentage of around 61 percent till 2016-17 and was not among the top five NITs till then. Its ranking improved, as did its placement record, by more than 26 percentage points. Among all the top NITs, NIT Calicut is the only institute which improved its rank in the latest NIRF ranking.
Although NIT Tiruchirappalli held the top NIRF rank among all the NITs across the country for seven years, it had the lowest students placements percentage for most of these years.
The placement percentage of all these top NITs were calculated on the basis of the number of placed students and the students who graduated in the minimum stipulated time. Some of those from the graduating batch of BTechs who were not placed could have gone for higher studies.
Chart Headline | NIT Placements: Graduating BTechs Placed Each Year (In %)
| Institute Name | 2021-22 | 2020-21 | 2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 | 2016-17 | 2015-16 |
| NIT Tiruchirappalli | 74.6 | 69.4 | 69.24 | 71.86 | 70.93 | 69.38 | 72.43 |
| NIT Surathkal | 87.7 | 82.1 | 83.2 | 87.82 | 78.54 | 71.34 | 75.13 |
| NIT Rourkela | 89.9 | 73 | 79.04 | 88.45 | 91.08 | 95.7 | 96.28 |
| NIT Warangal | 73.5 | 80.2 | 79.44 | 85.64 | 81.9 | 86.37 | 84.59 |
| NIT Calicut | 88.2 | 84.9 | 84.77 | 90.14 | 86.8 | 60.97 | 61.31 |
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Although NIT Warrnagal posted the lowest placement percentage, the median salary at which its graduates were hired has increased quite steadily over the last few years, but a sharp increase is seen this year. It became the top NIT in terms of highest median salary offered to the graduates.
Tiruchirappalli, Rourkela , Surathkal and Calicut all showed a steady increase in their median salaries from 2015 to 2022. But for NIT Rourkela, the median salary decreased in 2016-17, after which it took four years to reach the same milestone, but in the latest year its salary increased by 46 per cent and became the second highest among top five NITs. The chart below shows how salaries have risen or fallen at each of the five NITs over the seven years.
Chart title | NIT Placement: Median Salary Per Annum (In Rs Lakh)
Institute Name | 2021-22 | 2020-21 | 2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 | 2016-17 | 2015-16 |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | 12 | 10.8 | 10.50 | 9.00 | 7.50 | 6.53 | 7.10 |
NIT Karnataka Surathkal | 12.84 | 10 | 9.86 | 8.00 | 7.10 | 7.30 | 7.00 |
NIT Rourkela | 10 | 6.85 | 7.11 | 6.50 | 5.98 | 5.60 | 7.00 |
NIT Warangal | 15.92 | 10 | 9.00 | 9.01 | 8.37 | 6.00 | 6.50 |
NIT Calicut | 10.8 | 9.1 | 8.98 | 8.05 | 7.20 | 6.00 | 5.00 |
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More than 15 per cent of NIT Tiruchirappalli students opt for higher studies while that figure for the other NITs in this analysis is less than 10 per cent. The graph shows that the graduates choosing the working life is more than going for higher studies over the last seven years. In all the NITs, the number of students who opted for higher education sharply decreased compared to last year.
Chart title | Students Who Opted For Higher Studies (In %)
Institute Name | 2021-22 | 2020-21 | 2019-20 | 2018-19 | 2017-18 | 2016-17 | 2015-16 |
NIT Tiruchirappalli | 15.4 | 20.1 | 22.17 | 20.92 | 19.74 | 15.63 | 9.55 |
NIT Surathkal | 3.8 | 4.1 | 7.54 | 11.68 | 8.9 | 5.18 | 8.63 |
NIT Rourkela | 2.1 | 9.0 | 14.71 | 9.39 | 7.25 | 1.57 | 3.72 |
NIT Warangal | 7.1 | 9.6 | 9.58 | 8.64 | 9.05 | 4.74 | 9.63 |
NIT Calicut | 9.8 | 10.5 | 7.24 | 7.09 | 10.75 | 5.86 | 10.43 |
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However, it is not correct to assume that everyone not landing a job is going for further studies. Study of the data shared by these institutions with NIRF shows that on average only about 90 percent of the total number of students to graduate went for jobs or further studies. There is still another 10 percent whose future is not known. NIT Calicut was the only institute that shared data for almost 98 per cent of its students, but the average of these five NITs was still 90 per cent.
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