The National Institute of Technology was established in 1960 and sponsored by the Government of India during the second plan. NIT Srinagar focuses on technical advancements and research. It offers B.Tech courses in eight disciplines and has a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with Jani-IEF Entrepreneurship Foundation, ESES Kentucky University United States of America, BNUT Iran, IIT Delhi, Sfax University/ Universite de Sfax, and many more.
It can be seen on the official website of the National Institute of Technology Srinagar that a student who completed B.Tech was placed in Publicis Sapient Company with a CTC of Rs 9 lakhs per annum. The training and placement cell of the NIT Srinagar offered job roles like project associate under DBT sponsored project, TA for the professor chair’ in Water Resources Management Centre, guest faculty, junior research fellow under DST - SERB Project in Civil Engineering Department, JRF Chemistry under DST - SERB Project, guest faculty for Civil Engineering, research assistant for DST sponsored project, RA position under DSIR project and many others. Many such job offers were made during the NIT Srinagar placements in 2022 as well.
Some of their top recruiters offered roles that would allow them to work under esteemed researchers, companies, and experts under whom they could learn and find a professional extension of their theoretical knowledge gained as students at NIT Srinagar. The highest pay package for the students at NIT Srinagar placements was Rs 19-22 LPA. Several winter and summer internships were also offered and accepted to give the students the right and apt training ground. Such internship opportunities carve out the best among the students as they see what they will be working with once they set foot in the work arena as full-time professionals.
The placement cell of the National Institute of Technology Srinagar works with a consistent vision to establish a unique identity of a pioneer technical institute by developing high-quality technical manpower and technological resources. This is to bring about the nation's and region's economic and social development while keeping the global challenges in perspective.
The eight engineering fields ofNIT Srinagar produce students that support the growing need for trained minds and to shoulder the future success of India. The placement cell has put together a list of successful students who were hired during the NIT Srinagar placement process from their campus who are now conducting research, making advancements and bringing comfort to many areas that struggle due to lack of attention to them.
The placement process followed at the National Institute of Technology Srinagar makes sure that each student gets a chance to explore and give their skills a chance to be put to use for the betterment of life. The expert training and placement cell (TPC) staff of NIT Srinagar have created an elaborate 7-step placement process to recruit the best minds and allow each to participate in the placement drives.
Once the schedule for the placement process is set between the TPC and the company officials, the students of NIT are notified about the same and are asked to participate in the same to give their best. The students are evaluated at the scheduled time by the companies in various rounds, including but not limited to personal interviews, group discussions, tests, etc. Once all the rounds of the evaluation are completed, the companies send a list of the selected students to the training and placement cell along with the offer letter. The TPC staff sends the offer letters to the respective students of NIT Srinagar, who then join the companies on the set joining date and start a bright career.
National Institute of Technology Srinagar’s placement policy is to create a stable and transformative technical educational environment in which fresh ideas, moral principles, research, and excellence are met among the students. They strive to build excellent students with the best environment and training.
National Institute of Technology has seen a graph that promises further growth in pay package and percentage of students recruited in the coming years. As per statistics, the percentage of students hired from CSE, IT, and ECE have seen a moderate rise from the previous years. The same has been seen regarding the highest package, average package, and median package offered to the National Institute of Technology Srinagar students.
Companies like Oil India Limited have offered Rs 22 lakhs per annum, Lowes India has offered Rs 19.4 lakhs per annum, and Gail Limited has offered a pay package of Rs 18 lakhs per annum to the students of NIT Srinagar in the previous years. The students were from various fields like Mechanical Engineering, CSE, IT, and ECE. They have also had top GATE Rankers from the batch of students studying Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, Civil Engineering, etc.
Oil India Limited | Mahindra | Reliance | Punj Lloyd |
Simplex | Lowes India | Hindustan Petroleum | DRDO |
Tata Consultancy Services | Larsen and Toubro | Honda | HCL |
IRCON | Alstom | Samsung | Escorts |
Microsoft | Sagacious IP | Gail | Amdocs |
Blog Vault | ACC | Eagle View | Capgemini |
Tally | Vedanta | Wipro | Optum |
OYO | ZS | Maruti Suzuki | Infosys |
Summer and winter internships offered to the National Institute of Technology Srinagar students are colossal opportunities that help them explore and conduct many research and experiments that bring out resourceful results to facilitate future progress. Some NIT Srinagar students get full-time jobs after noticing their performance. The internships give them ample opportunities to return with their hands full of new practical lessons.
The following are a few of the companies that are associated with the National Institute of Technology for summer and winter internships:
National Institute of Technology Srinagar has a specialized Alumni and International Affairs Department that works towards organizing online and on-campus alumni meetings. The theme alumni meet for 2022 of NIT Srinagar is ‘Alumni Leading NIT Srinagar to the Pinnacle.’ During such meets, the NIT Srinagar alumni participate in essential discussions like elevating the standard of NIT Srinagar, plantation, development in the field of recruitment and better placements, and much more. Some distinguished NIT Srinagar alumni are working or have worked at Oklahoma State University as the Ex-Head of the department and researcher and scholar in the computer information systems field at Georgia State University.
Also, there have been innovators, engineers, reformists, and inventors of Ice Stupa, software writer, author, Wall Street Superman and ex-CEO of DataWareHost, executive director - HR or HPCL Mumbai, chairman and managing director of telecommunications consultants India limited (GOI Enterprise) and many others. Such an illustrious team of alumni shares their rich experience in various fields and arenas that enrich the National Institute of Technology Srinagar students and make them confident job seekers, creators, innovators, and changemakers of tomorrow. They are given examples, experiences, lessons, and tips on making the best resume, presenting themselves, being quick, and many others that are not taught elsewhere.
In 2021, many recruiters joined the National Institute of Technology Srinagar to recruit their students. Various companies offered job opportunities in promising branches of their company to further enhance the purview of impact to be made by the students of NIT Srinagar. After all the rounds of the placement process, the most eligible and outstanding students from the National Institute of Technology were offered pay packages that would justify their skill set to its maximum.
In 2021, the National Institute of Technology Srinagar students were offered the highest package of around Rs 15 lakhs per annum.
Students from the National Institute of Technology Srinagar (NIT) were offered an average pay package of around Rs 8 lakhs per annum in 2021.
Power Grid | IBM | Coal India |
National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) | Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) | Larsen and Toubro Constructions |
Honda | Yamaha | Brillio |
Med Life | Reliance Power | Reliance Communications |
SKF | FourKites | Zomato |
JSW | Mahindra | BYJU’s |
Cummins | Nutanix | Indian Oil |
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu)
Bhubaneswar (Odisha)
Hyderabad (Telangana)
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu)
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh)