IIIT Bhubaneswar achieves 91 per cent placement
Representative ImageBHUBANESWAR: International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bhubaneswar established by Odisha government in 2006 has achieved 91 per cent placements of its passed outs in the year 2019-20 academic year.
Official sources said this after Board of Governors (BoG) Meeting of the institute held under the chairmanship of chief secretary Asit Tripathy. This institution has maintained a high placement record of 90 per cent to 94 per cent in last five years, said the official statement.
Around 26 companies including Microsoft, McKinsey, Visa, Dell and Amazon had visited the IIIT campus during the year 2019-20 for campus recruitment. The passed outs have been offered appointment on an average scale of 4.85 lakhs. The maximum salary offer from the company has been Rs 41 lakh per year.
Tripathy directed the institute to work out the ‘way forward’ containing short, medium and long term objectives with broad timelines for scaling research and specialization eco-system in the institution.
IIIT director Gopal Nayak said the institute is successfully running the innovative methodologies like self learning course, self development course and coding competition. "A self-learning course is introduced in each semester. The students pick a subject, study on their own and write a personal learning paper. The subject chosen is not restricted to their discipline. This provides the scope for booming of their hidden talents," he added.
Institute's registrar Ajit Kumar Das said students of his institution occupied top rank in Google Online Marketing Challenge of the current year. Thousands of teams consisting over one lakh students from 100 countries participated in the challenge. A five member team of IIIT consisting of the students namely Dhairya Mehta, Sambit Mohapatra, Shraddha Padhihari, Bhabya Mohanty and Sneha Batabyal topped the rank.
IIIT is providing consultancy to government in nine different projects. It has also filed its claim for patent in two subjects during the year 2019-20, official sources said.
Official sources said this after Board of Governors (BoG) Meeting of the institute held under the chairmanship of chief secretary Asit Tripathy. This institution has maintained a high placement record of 90 per cent to 94 per cent in last five years, said the official statement.
Around 26 companies including Microsoft, McKinsey, Visa, Dell and Amazon had visited the IIIT campus during the year 2019-20 for campus recruitment. The passed outs have been offered appointment on an average scale of 4.85 lakhs. The maximum salary offer from the company has been Rs 41 lakh per year.
Tripathy directed the institute to work out the ‘way forward’ containing short, medium and long term objectives with broad timelines for scaling research and specialization eco-system in the institution.
IIIT director Gopal Nayak said the institute is successfully running the innovative methodologies like self learning course, self development course and coding competition. "A self-learning course is introduced in each semester. The students pick a subject, study on their own and write a personal learning paper. The subject chosen is not restricted to their discipline. This provides the scope for booming of their hidden talents," he added.
Institute's registrar Ajit Kumar Das said students of his institution occupied top rank in Google Online Marketing Challenge of the current year. Thousands of teams consisting over one lakh students from 100 countries participated in the challenge. A five member team of IIIT consisting of the students namely Dhairya Mehta, Sambit Mohapatra, Shraddha Padhihari, Bhabya Mohanty and Sneha Batabyal topped the rank.
IIIT is providing consultancy to government in nine different projects. It has also filed its claim for patent in two subjects during the year 2019-20, official sources said.
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