The college is known for its strong technical education and industrial relations. IIT Madras has been a favourite destination of recruitment for many firms. The recruiters include many multinational companies like Google, Microsoft, General Email, and multinational investment banks like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and Citi. Read more
The college is known for its strong technical education and industrial relations. IIT Madras has been a favourite destination of recruitment for many firms. The recruiters include many multinational companies like Google, Microsoft, General Email, and multinational investment banks like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and Citi. Many PSUs and government-led companies like UIDAI, ISRO, ONGC, Coal India and startups like Noodle analytics, Finmechanics have chosen IITM as a hiring platform for many roles like a consultant, business analyst, and IT. The lowest salary package offered was about 4.5 LPA, and the highest salary package offered was about 95 LPA. The average salary package was about 12 LPA. Almost 85% of the registered students have got placed, considering both the phases. There were many double and triple offers, where the student has the advantage to choose the best option for them. The placement core team, including all the co-coordinators and volunteers, have worked hard to arrange different sessions of mock tests, mock GDs, and many other sessions to build confidence in students. They also request the companies to recruit the maximum number of people they can, by arranging walk-ins and deciding the right student for the role. In this way, the placement cell was useful. | As one of the premium institutes in the country, IITM has the best infrastructure facilities as one would expect. The institute includes a 5 storeyed-building with Wi-Fi facility and access to a wide variety of books and journals. Medical facilities are available 24x7 with specialist doctors, for students and faculty members. Sports facilities like Olympic-size swimming pool and state-of-the-art athletic stadium, cricket, hockey, football and others are available on the campus. Gym facilities are available for all the students. As IITM is a lush green campus, with rich flora and fauna, we can see many deers inside the campus. So, students are not allowed to maintain powered motorcycles to maintain greenery. Almost every student has a bicycle, and those who don't have, there is always a free bus facility, available for every 15 minutes, for transportation with in the campus. | Every faculty in IITM is well-qualified as the general trend of faculty joining nowadays are expected to complete 2 post-doctorates in their respective field of research. Although many students won't show much interest during the lectures, still, the faculty members complete the syllabus allotted, in time. But when you interact with the professor individually, you can earn a great knowledge and can estimate the depth of understanding and command the respective faculty has in their respective field. Some professors use the blackboard to teach, and some others use the projector. There are many free elective courses for students to choose, who wants to explore different fields of engineering, humanities and mathematics. So, this is the reason many students from the background of mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering, end up in doing jobs with data analytics, software developers, web developers, finance, etc. The course curriculum is prepared beforehand and followed accordingly. | Review of IIT Madras - Indian Institute of Technology Chennai (IITM). | Every year, during January, IITM celebrates one of the biggest Indian college fests named Saarang, which is a 5-day cultural fest with a footfall of around 50,000. Shaastra is a 4-day technical fest organised to showcase the talents and technology of students' innovations. Apart from these, each department conducts its department-specific fest in March. The odd semester has full of events, which are related to technology, literature and arts. Even semesters will hold sports events and student elections, to elect student's representatives for the next academic year. All events are of the hostel level, and every hostel takes much pride in winning the overall championship every year. Students who belong to the economically backward category, MCM scholarship is provided. One needs to maintain a decent GPA in every semester, which is quite less than the average GPA. Chennai is famous for beaches and temples. It is better to learn Tamil quickly as most of the people in Chennai prefer to converse in their native language. One of India's the biggest shopping mall Phoenix, Chennai is just at the walkable distance from Institutes Velachery gate. Tada Waterfalls, Mahabalipuram, Pichavaram Man Grove forest, Nagalapuram Trek and Pondicherry, are some of the nearby vacation spots to relax and enjoy.
