BITS Pilani Pilani Campus Placements: Three-Year Outcomes Through 2023-24
The latest Pilani-specific placement table captured for this update reports AY2023-24. It records 1,212 first-degree and higher-degree students registered for placement and 970 placed, an institute-reported 80.03% of the registered group. First-degree and higher-degree counts are shown separately, but the salary figures are combined across both groups. The table covers three cohorts from AY2021-22 to AY2023-24; it does not establish outcomes for a particular branch, a future batch or every graduating student.
Pilani campus figures reported by BITS
These are the values printed in the Pilani Campus Placement Statistics PDF, published 3 June 2025. “FD” means First Degree and “HD” means Higher Degree in the source table. The percentages are the institute’s reported placed shares for the corresponding registered cohort; the PDF does not label the denominator as all graduates. Do not describe them as a placement rate for every student completing a degree.
Separate programme groups; combined salary measures
For AY2023-24, BITS lists 852 FD students registered and 705 placed, alongside 360 HD registered and 265 placed. The combined total is 1,212 registered and 970 placed. The headcounts therefore show different outcomes for the two broad programme groups, but the table does not provide separate FD and HD salary medians, averages or maximums. Its domestic salary rows follow the combined total and should not be attributed to B.E. students alone, to a specific M.Sc. or higher-degree programme, or to one branch.
The publication calls its salary measures “Median Salary (Domestic),” “Average Salary (Domestic),” and “Maximum Salary (Domestic).” Its table does not identify a salary period in those row labels. This page therefore retains the amounts as printed and does not add an annual unit that the captured table does not state. The maximum is a single upper-end value, not a typical result. The median describes the midpoint of the reported group and is usually more useful for understanding the center than the maximum; the average can move with high values.
What the three cohorts show
The combined registered group stayed near 1,200 in all three years: 1,247 in AY2021-22, 1,215 in AY2022-23 and 1,212 in AY2023-24. The combined placed share reported by BITS moved from 90.86% to 89.63%, then to 80.03%. For FD, the reported share moved from 93.57% to 90.09% and 82.75%; for HD, it was 84.57%, 88.56% and 73.61%. These are changes in the published registered-group percentages, not a forecast of future outcomes.
The domestic median rose from ₹17,65,895 in AY2021-22 to ₹18,20,000 in AY2022-23, then fell to ₹16,15,000 in AY2023-24. The average was ₹19,43,467, ₹20,79,432 and ₹19,70,579 respectively. The maximum declined from ₹90 lakh to ₹70 lakh and ₹65 lakh. Because the salary figures combine FD and HD groups, the table cannot show whether a movement came from programme mix, individual disciplines, employer mix or changes within a group. The source does not report a cause, so none is inferred here.
The reported number of companies rose from 306 to 314 and 350 over these cohorts while the combined placed share fell in the latest year. This juxtaposition does not explain the movement: the table does not define whether “companies” means unique recruiters, offers or visits, and it provides no company-level hiring or offer counts. It is useful as a source-reported count, not as proof that a higher company figure raises an individual student’s chance of placement.
How to use the figures when comparing programmes
Use the table as campus-wide context, not as a guarantee attached to an offer letter or a branch choice. A prospective student should look for current programme-level placement disclosures before relying on a campus aggregate. The three-year table does not give branch-level salary medians, role distributions, offer counts, international placement figures, internship outcomes or a graduating-student denominator. It cannot answer how many students in a particular course were seeking work, which roles they accepted or what the typical salary was within that course.
The Pilani placements page describes the campus’s recruitment process and Practice School exposure. That process context is distinct from the dated outcome table: descriptions of recruitment support do not replace cohort counts, and outcome counts do not establish a job offer for every participant. Applicants comparing BITS with another institution should align the campus, academic year, programme group, registration denominator and salary scope first.
Limits and next steps
The source is campus-specific to Pilani and reports domestic salary measures. It should not be merged with figures from another BITS campus or assigned to an institution-wide cohort without a matching source. It also ends with AY2023-24. No later Pilani-specific aggregate was verified in the sources used here, so the figures are historical context rather than a statement about AY2024-25, AY2025-26 or AY2027-28.
Before making a decision, open the dated PDF and check the table’s cohort, degree-group labels and metric names. If a current department or programme report is available, compare it separately and confirm its denominator and reporting period. Ask the institute for clarification when a publication does not define the salary period or what its company count represents. Do not convert a campus aggregate into a promised personal outcome.