National Institute of Technology campus in Patna

Patna, Nov. 7: Final-year students of two city-based engineering cradles — Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) and National Institute of Technology (NIT) — are on cloud nine eight months before passing out. Most of them have lapped up jobs.

Around 80 per cent of the final-year students of BIT, Patna, have job offers in their pocket. Out of 255 students, 200 have been placed. The highest salary package offered so far is Rs 6.25 lakh per annum.

Last session, the highest offer was Rs 7.5 lakh from ZS Associates.

Cut to NIT, Patna. It is far behind BIT in the percentage of final-year students bagging jobs — 37.5 per cent. But it is far ahead of BIT when it comes to the highest package offered so far.

Around 150 final-year NIT students out of 400 have bagged jobs till now. Indian Oil, a leading core sector company, has offered annual package of Rs 8.75 lakh to nine students.

The highest package offered to an NIT student last year was Rs 9.87 lakh.

This year, Tata Motors has offered jobs to five NIT students on annual package of Rs 5.75 lakh.

IT company Verizone Data Services has recruited 21 students offering annual package of Rs 5 lakh each.

Maruti Suzuki India Limited has selected 13 students. IT company Capgemini India has offered jobs to 12.

Sanjeev Sinha, the placement officer of NIT, Patna, said: “More companies will come down to the institute for recruitment in the next few months. Hero MotoCorp Ltd, Hindalco and Adani Group have given their consent to visit the institute for campus recruitment.”

If NIT students are doing fine in campus placement, budding techies of BIT are no pushovers. Several of them have bagged multiple job offers.

Raj Kumar, the placement officer of BIT, Patna, said: “Till now, around 80 per cent students have been placed. Out of the 200 students recruited so far, 130 have multiple job offers. Wipro has picked up 90 students till now offering annual package of Rs 3.25 lakh.”

Verizone Data Services has selected 12 students on annual package of Rs 5 lakh.

The placement officer of BIT said more IT companies were coming to the campus for recruitment this session than the core sector companies. BIT, Patna, would have made history this session had its final-year student Prashant Priyadarshi not flunked in the final round of recruitment test of Microsoft.

The IT giant offered jobs to two students of BIT, Mesra (in Jharkhand), offering annual package of Rs 58 lakh. Priyadarshi had made it to the final round of selection but lost his nerves while facing the last hurdle.