IIT Indore placement figures are easiest to interpret when the degree group, graduating cohort and denominator stay visible. The latest official outcome table I could verify is IIT Indore’s Engineering-category submission to NIRF 2026. It reports separate aggregates for four-year undergraduate programmes and two-year postgraduate programmes, not a branch-by-branch placement list. For the academic year 2024–25, the UG group shows 333 students graduating in minimum stipulated time, 275 placed, 17 selected for higher studies and a median salary of placed graduates of ₹18,00,000. The PG group shows 257 graduating, 125 placed, 60 selected for higher studies and a median of ₹12,00,000. These are useful cohort measures, but the NIRF table labels the salary amount in rupees without naming a salary period. It should not be presented as an annual figure unless the institute or NIRF source explicitly confirms the period.
Latest official cohort figures, with the right denominator
The NIRF PDF is titled “Submitted Institute Data for NIRF’2026’” and labels the displayed outcome year as 2024–25. The ranking submission edition and the cohort year are different labels: this is 2026 reporting about the 2024–25 graduating cohort, not a 2026 placement season or a prediction for students joining in 2027–28. NIRF’s table defines the graduating count as students who completed in the minimum stipulated time. It then reports placed graduates and those selected for higher studies as separate outcomes. Do not add the two outcome columns together to create a placement rate: the table does not establish mutually exclusive destinations or a single denominator of all students who sought a job.
For context, the same submission reports earlier cohorts. The four-year UG group moves from 281 minimum-time graduates, 238 placed and 12 selected for higher studies in 2022–23, to 331, 234 and 27 in 2023–24, then 333, 275 and 17 in 2024–25. Its median salary values are ₹21,20,000, ₹19,48,000 and ₹18,00,000 respectively, all reported as amounts in rupees with no period stated in the table. The two-year PG group records 164 graduates, 93 placed and 35 higher-study selections in 2022–23; 153, 63 and 49 in 2023–24; and 257, 125 and 60 in 2024–25. The corresponding median amounts are ₹8,00,000, ₹10,00,000 and ₹12,00,000.
These changes should be read as cohort comparisons, not as proof that an individual programme improved or declined. A larger graduating cohort can change the number placed even when the share placed moves differently. The available NIRF submission aggregates all four-year UG programmes together and all two-year PG programmes together. It does not provide the programme or department split needed to say how Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a specific M.Tech specialisation or another degree performed. It also does not identify recruiters, job functions, locations, offer counts, accepted offers or the salary distribution around the median. A median is not an average and does not describe every graduate’s outcome.
What IIT Indore’s placement office does
IIT Indore’s placement page describes the Centre for Alumni and Corporate Relations as supporting placement and internship activities. It lists pre-placement talks, mock assessments and interviews, mentorship, workshops, campus connections and the OpportuNEX platform among its activities. Those services explain the route through which students and employers may engage with the institute; they do not establish a placement guarantee or a job outcome for a particular programme. The same page currently displays zero-valued counters for some summary metrics. Because those fields are visibly placeholders and conflict with the more complete official NIRF table, they are not used here as outcome data.
A student comparing programmes should therefore start with the NIRF duration group that actually contains the degree, then look for an official department or programme report with a matching cohort and a clear denominator. Check whether the report counts students eligible for placement, registered candidates, placed students, offers, or all graduates; these measures answer different questions. Ask whether the salary statistic is median or mean, whether the period is annual or otherwise defined, and whether it refers to domestic or international offers. If the provider does not report those details, keep them unknown instead of filling them from a recruiter headline or a peer’s anecdote.
How to use the figures for a 2027–28 decision
Treat the 2024–25 NIRF outcome as a dated institutional baseline. It can show the scale and broad shape of reported UG and PG outcomes, but it cannot forecast a later cohort or substitute for programme-specific evidence. Before using it to choose a branch, compare curriculum, research options, location, costs, internship access and the kinds of roles you want. Then ask the department or placement office for the most recent programme-level report and its cohort definitions. A useful request is specific: “For the 2024–25 graduating cohort in this degree, how many students were eligible, registered, placed, and selected for higher studies, and what period does the reported median salary cover?”
IIT Indore’s live placement page is the right starting point for its current process and contact route, while the NIRF submission is the source for the dated aggregate figures above. Recheck both before making an application or enrolment decision; current-year placement reports can be added only when the institute publishes a readable, scope-matched table. No branch-level result, annualised salary, or 2027–28 placement promise can be inferred from the figures available here.