The National Institute of Technology (NIT) is headed for another stellar year in terms of placements.

The tech cradle has started its placement drive for students of the 2014-18 session from last week.

Last week, Yodlee, a digital financial services provider, conducted pool interviews at NIT-Patna for techies of NITs in Jamshedpur, Durgapur and Patna, and IIIT-Allahabad recruiting seven students. Three students from NIT Patna, the host institute which conducted the placement, and two students each from NIT-Jamshedpur and NIT-Durgapur were selected based on online test and interview.

Apart from final placement made by Yodlee, software company Oracle also conducted an online test for students.

NIT-Patna placement in-charge Samrat Mukherjee said: "The institute started its placement session early so that many students get an opportunity to sit in placement interviews by different companies. The other reason is to provide multiple job offers to techies as more companies will visit in the next one year."

Some of the companies scheduled to visit the institute in the next few weeks include Alstom, a transport and power company, Amazon, Optum, an IT-enabled health services from United Health Group and SAP, a multinational software corporation.

Shivans, a final-year computer science engineering student said: "We hope more students get multiple job offers."

Students claimed that though private and government colleges are finding it difficult to offer good placements to students, NIT-Patna has maintained its record.

Mukherjee said: "Our focus is to invite more Tier I and dream companies. Tier I companies and dream companies are those which offer good pay and the work environment is better than normal firms."

In the last placement session, 52 companies visited the institute of which 10 were dream companies while five were Tier I. Of 373 eligible students for placement, 92.23 per cent of students were placed.