This year VIT conducted virtual placements, and as many as 7,403 job offers were rolled out by 382 companies across VIT campuses in the country, despite the pandemic. VIT’s placements are common for all of its campuses at Vellore, Chennai, AP, and Bhopal. The results were announced by G. Viswanathan, Founder, and Chancellor of VIT. The Placement season for this year began in July 2020 at VIT-AP and will continue up to May 2021. As of December 21, 2020, VIT-AP first batch of graduates secured 419 job offers from 73 Companies.
The very first batch of VIT-AP students who will be graduating in May 2021, scored big in this placement process. Many of these have secured Super Dream offers (CTC of Rs.10 lakhs and above per annum) right at the beginning of the season.
Harsh Vardhan Kushwaha, B. Tech, (CSE with specialization in Networking and Security) has got the highest offer of Rs. 20 Lakhs PA offer from CommVault. Some of the companies which gave super dream offers are Amazon, Philips, Volvo, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citi Bank, Barclays, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Honeywell, Robert Bosch, Shell, Tekion, Sabre, Akamai, Societe General, Nutanix, CommVault, Health Rx, ARM, Amadeus, Oyo, VMWare, Optum, Pharmeasy, Tata CliQ, Axis Bank, etc.
Dr. Sekar Viswanathan, Vice President VIT-AP said “The outstanding success of the placements of the very first is because of the high quality of students and faculty, a strong curriculum and industry-institute collaborations. The novel concept of ‘Engineering Clinics’, whereby students from different disciplines execute industry-strength projects right from the first semester, has tremendously impressed the industry executives.”
Dr.SV Kota Reddy, Vice-Chancellor emphasized that in order for the students’ benefit from the placement opportunities, VIT-AP has the final semester as the Cooperative Education Programme (co-op). This Co-op provides students the opportunity to explore and refine their potential career path. The experience the student gains from this long internship period narrows the gap with the industry, builds valuable industry connections, broaden their perspectives of the job front, and acquire the skills and knowledge required to face the professional world. This co-op makes them strong contenders ready for their job role.
