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FEBRUARY 2011
Created and compiled by The Fifth Estate Team Published by the Dean Students, IIT Madras http://students.iitm.ac.in/thefifthestate/
WHAT’S INSIDE 5 EXTRA MURAL LECTURES 7 LIT-SOC 11 SPORTS 13 TECH-SOC
8 IITM OPEN QUIZ 9 SAARANG ‘11 13 DALAL STREET @ IIT MADRAS 14 THE CHEMYSTRY OF IT ALL
WHAT’S INSIDE Pic: Yassin -Media Club
Institute Placements The placement season this year was a time to cheer and celebrate compared to the previous years that suffered heavily from the recession. It marks, for the final year students, the end of a colourful student life at IIT Madras and the beginning of a remarkable journey wherein they would be expected to apply everything they learnt in the past few years and work towards solving real life problems. Like last year, we at T5E analyzed the placement data and have presented the results below.
A whopping 723 students were placed this year (collectively close to 900 offers were made) in a wide range of companies – technical companies, consultancy firms, universities, banks, the Indian navy, ISRO and so on. And like every year there were a few departments that did very well at campus placements while the others didn’t perform so well.
The common notion that CGPA is strongly linked to placements is seemingly true as indicated by the figTrivia: Engineering Design’s first batch of dual ures below. The other notion that people with a strong degree students had passed out last year and this year marked the first batch of MA students passing ‘app’ profile occasionally face problems at placements out from the Department of Humanities and Social was also proved somewhat true with the 8-9 CGPA bracket earning a higher average package than the Sciences. ones with CGPAs between 9-10. The Fifth Estate
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