What IIT (BHU)’s latest placement data measures
The most comparable outcome figures in the available official material are the programme-duration rows in IIT (BHU)’s NIRF Engineering 2026 submission. It reports the 2024-25 graduating cohorts separately for undergraduate four-year programmes, undergraduate five-year programmes and postgraduate two-year programmes. These are not one institute-wide placement rate. The report counts students who graduated in minimum stipulated time, students placed, students selected for higher studies and the median salary of placed graduates. NIRF’s reporting instructions define the median salary field as an annual amount; the report itself identifies the salary currency as rupees.
A useful comparison is placed divided by minimum-time graduates, using the NIRF table’s own denominator. That gives approximately 97.3% for UG four-year programmes, 93.1% for UG five-year programmes and 74.5% for PG two-year programmes in 2024-25. These are calculations from the submitted counts, not an institute-published placement rate. They do not include students who took longer than the stipulated time to graduate, and they do not predict an individual student’s outcome.
Read the cohort differences before comparing salaries
The newest four-year UG median is ₹18 lakh per annum for 1,061 placed students out of 1,090 graduates in minimum time. In 2023-24, the same NIRF group reported 996 placed from 1,073 such graduates, a ₹20 lakh median and 75 students selected for higher studies. The calculated placed share therefore rose from about 92.8% to 97.3%, while the median fell from ₹20 lakh to ₹18 lakh. Neither movement alone explains why an individual’s outcome changed: the table does not provide branch-level salary distributions, job locations, or the number of students who opted out of placement.
For UG five-year programmes, the 2024-25 cohort had 338 placed from 363 minimum-time graduates, with a ₹22 lakh median and 24 selected for higher studies. The previous reported cohort, 2023-24, showed 273 placed from 319 graduates, a ₹21.16 lakh median and 38 higher-study selections. The placed share calculated from those counts moved from about 85.6% to 93.1%; the median also rose from ₹21.16 lakh to ₹22 lakh. This group is not interchangeable with the four-year B.Tech cohort: it covers five-year undergraduate programmes as the NIRF submission classifies them.
For PG two-year programmes, the 2024-25 cohort reported 210 placed from 282 graduates in minimum time, 65 selected for higher studies and a ₹9.2 lakh median. In 2023-24, the corresponding counts were 196 placed from 263, 64 higher-study selections and a ₹10 lakh median. The calculated placed share is about 74.5% in both years, while the median is lower in the latest row. The source does not break this group into individual M.Tech or M.Pharm disciplines, so it cannot support a programme-level salary promise.
Offers, average CTC and the highest package are separate measures
IIT (BHU)’s Annual Report 2024-25 describes activity during the 2024-25 academic session: approximately 398 companies visited campus and extended 1,405 offers, including four international offers. The report gives an average CTC of ₹24.56 lakh per annum, a highest package of ₹2.20 crore, and 502 paid internships, including one international internship offer. It also says the number of visiting companies increased by about 13.06% compared with 2023-24.
These annual-report numbers answer different questions from the NIRF cohort table. Offers are not the same unit as unique students placed; one student may receive more than one offer, and the report does not provide a direct reconciliation to the NIRF placed count. Average CTC and the highest package also cannot be substituted for the NIRF median. The headline highest package describes an outlier, not a typical result. The NIRF median is the more useful figure when comparing the middle of a defined cohort, provided the programme duration and graduating year match.
The annual report lists activity across core engineering, IT and IT-enabled services, manufacturing, consultancy, finance, management and R&D. This is a broad sector list, not a percentage breakdown of jobs or a guarantee that every branch sees the same recruiter mix. The 502 internships are reported separately from final-placement offers; do not add them together as if they were the same stage or population.
How applicants should use the figures
When comparing IIT (BHU) with another institution, align the reporting edition, graduating cohort, degree duration, placed-student denominator and salary measure. A NIRF Engineering 2026 submission describes outcome rows for 2024-25; “2026” is the report edition, not the year those graduates completed their programmes. Compare median with median, annual CTC with annual CTC, and programme-duration groups with equivalent groups. Avoid ranking branches from an institute-wide table that does not contain branch-level outcomes.
For a personal decision, ask the Training and Placement Cell or department for the latest branch-level placement policy and data: eligible batch size, students opting in, placed count, median and distribution, internship-to-offer conversion if tracked, and whether figures describe CTC or fixed pay. The public sources used here do not establish those branch-level details. They also do not establish 2025-26 or 2026-27 graduating outcomes. Use the 2024-25 table as the latest sourced cohort baseline available in this packet, not as a forecast for the 2027-28 intake.