IIT placements 2025: median salary and share of graduates placed, from official NIRF data

IIT placements 2025: median salary and share placed, institute by institute

Fifteen IITs sit in the first 30 places on the NIRF 2025 Engineering ranking page. The table follows the order of that page. Graduating, placed, higher studies and median are copied from each institute's NIRF PDF; share placed is our division (placed ÷ graduating).

Each row links to that IIT's page on CareerBox; the NIRF PDFs are listed under "Official sources".

Which IIT has the highest median salary?

IIT Patna reports ₹22.5 lakh, the highest in the group, and also the highest share placed at 320 of 335 graduates (95.52%). IIT Hyderabad follows at ₹21 lakh, then IIT (BHU) Varanasi at ₹20 lakh, with 996 of 1,073 graduates placed (92.82%).

The classic names sit close together: IIT Kharagpur ₹19.76 lakh, IIT Bombay ₹19.61 lakh, IIT Guwahati and IIT Indore ₹19.48 lakh, IIT Kanpur ₹19.4 lakh, IIT Delhi ₹19.08 lakh. IIT Madras reports ₹17.5 lakh and IIT Roorkee ₹17 lakh.

At the lower end, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and IIT Jodhpur report ₹12 lakh. For Gujarat students, IIT Gandhinagar reports ₹14 lakh, with 160 of 214 graduates placed (74.77%) and 51 in higher studies.

A median is the middle value. At IIT Patna, half of the 320 placed graduates were reported to earn more than ₹22.5 lakh and half less. The median says nothing about the top packages that get into news headlines.

Which IIT places the highest share of its graduates?

Share placed runs from 66.55% (Kanpur) to 95.52% (Patna) across the 15. The next highest after Patna and BHU Varanasi are IIT (ISM) Dhanbad at 80.77% and IIT Jodhpur at 77.03%.

The low shares at IIT Kanpur (66.55%), IIT Roorkee (69.78%) and IIT Mandi (70.00%) are mostly higher studies, not unplaced students. The next section shows why.

Why "share placed" is not the "100% placement" you see elsewhere

Three plain reasons, all visible in the NIRF table itself.

1. Higher studies are counted as graduates. NIRF asks each institute for the number of students graduating, the number placed, and the number selected for higher studies. A student who joins an M.Tech, an MS abroad or a PhD is a graduate but not "placed". If you divide placed by graduating, that student lowers the share.

2. A "100% placed" line can use a smaller base. If you remove the higher-studies students from the denominator, the share rises. This is our arithmetic, not a NIRF figure:

For Roorkee, Bombay and Patna, every graduate who did not go for higher studies was placed. That is how a "100% placed" line can be true on its own terms and still sit beside a 69.78% share in the NIRF table. Delhi shows the opposite: only 49 chose higher studies, so most of the gap to 100% is graduates the table does not count as placed.

3. NIRF counts graduates, not the admitted batch. The count is of students who graduated in the minimum stipulated time, for the 4-year programme. Students who took longer, and students admitted but not graduated, are outside it. A figure built on some other base, such as students who registered for placement, will not match the NIRF share.

Neither figure is wrong. They answer different questions. For a parent asking "what happens to a graduate here", the NIRF share, together with the higher-studies column, is the more complete answer.

IITs listed lower on the NIRF 2025 Engineering page

The same table for seven more IITs, listed below the first 30 on the same page.

IIT Tirupati's low share (55.61%) comes with the highest higher-studies share in this table: 72 of 205 graduates (35.12%). Smaller and newer IITs also graduate fewer students, so one or two placements move the percentage a lot.

How to read the NIRF table yourself

1. Open the NIRF 2025 Engineering ranking page and click the institute's "More Details" link to get its data PDF.
2. Scroll to "Placement & Higher Studies" and find the heading "UG [4 Years Program(s)]: Placement & higher studies for previous 3 years".
3. Pick the row whose graduating year is 2023-24. Note the admission year printed in the first column belongs to the batch that joined four years earlier (2020-21).
4. Read four columns: students graduating in minimum stipulated time, students placed, median salary of placed graduates per annum (in rupees), and students selected for higher studies.
5. Divide placed by graduating. Then add placed and higher studies to see how much of the batch is accounted for.

The PDFs also carry a PG (2-year) table and a PhD table. This article uses only the 4-year UG row.

What these figures do not tell you

• They are submitted by the institutes. NIRF publishes the data each institute provides in its own PDF. We did not audit them.
• One batch only. This is graduating year 2023-24. The same PDFs carry 2021-22 and 2022-23, and a single year can swing, especially at small IITs.
• No branch split. A single median covers every branch of the institute. NIRF does not split this table by branch, so we cannot give branch-wise figures from it.
• Median is not average, and not the top offer. It also covers only placed graduates.
• Salary is as reported. The column is the median annual salary in rupees. It is not a promise for your batch.
• Not a ranking of IITs. Do not choose between two IITs on one column. Look at share placed, higher studies and median together, then at the branch you can actually get.

If you are still deciding on admission, our guides to JEE Advanced 2027 and JEE Main 2027 cover the exam side.