Placements

What the latest comparable official data covers

For a 2027-28 planning page, the latest comparable cohort tables I found are in IIITDM Jabalpur’s institutional data submitted to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025. The report separates four-year undergraduate programmes from two-year postgraduate programmes and records graduates in the minimum stipulated time, students placed, median salary of placed graduates and students selected for higher studies. Its placement years end at 2023-24. These are historical outcomes, not a placement promise for a student entering in 2027-28.

The NIRF rows use a wider programme-group basis than branch placement dashboards. The UG group is “UG [4 Years Program(s)]”; the PG group is “PG [2 Year Program(s)].” Do not read either group as a CSE, ECE, Mechanical, Smart Manufacturing or design-only result. The tables also do not specify that each number represents on-campus offers alone.

Four-year UG outcomes: placed count grew, reported share eased

*Calculated as placed ÷ graduates in minimum stipulated time, rounded to one decimal. This is an Admission Guardian calculation from the NIRF table, not a percentage published in that row.

Across these three cohorts, the number placed rose from 236 to 365 while the graduating cohort grew from 293 to 509. The calculated placed share moved down from 80.5% to 71.7%, even as the median salary among placed graduates rose from ₹11L to ₹16.94L a year. Those measures answer different questions: a higher median describes salaries for those placed, while the placed share compares placements with the specified graduating cohort. Neither alone describes an individual student’s likely outcome, and the three-year pattern does not establish why the measures changed.

Two-year PG outcomes: a smaller, separate cohort series

*Calculated as placed ÷ graduates in minimum stipulated time, rounded to one decimal.

The PG table’s placed share falls across the listed cohorts as the minimum-time graduating group declines from 85 to 27; its median salary for placed graduates increases from ₹8.5L to ₹13.63L. The NIRF row aggregates two-year PG programmes, rather than identifying one specialisation. A small cohort can also make year-to-year movement sensitive to a few outcomes. Compare the programme, graduating year and denominator before using this table beside a branch-specific placement brochure.

What the Placement Cell reports separately

The institute’s Placement Cell page labels a section “Campus Placement Highlights (2025-26).” It lists 36 international pre-placement offers (PPOs), a highest international package of ₹40L, a highest domestic package of ₹75L and 100+ companies visiting campus. In the same set of highlights it says 386+ offers were made to the 2024-25 graduating batch. Since the page places a prior graduating-batch figure inside a 2025-26 section and does not provide a matching denominator or programme breakdown for these highlights, keep them as the Cell’s separate headline claims; do not combine them with the NIRF cohort rows or treat offer count as students placed.

The Cell describes soft-skills training, workshops with mock interviews and group discussions, alumni-connect activity, and project-based internships of six months or a year. These describe activities and opportunities, not guaranteed selection, duration for every programme, or a placement result. Ask the relevant department or placement office what is open to your course and graduating year.

Offers, placements and salary medians are not interchangeable

An offer is not necessarily one student: an individual may receive more than one. The Placement Cell’s 2025-26 statistics URL was unavailable when checked, so this page does not use figures discoverable only in its search preview. For cohort comparison, the directly opened NIRF 2025 submission is more useful because its table explicitly names graduating groups and placed counts. The public NIRF data does not establish a branch-level placement percentage, eligible-student denominator, average package, internship conversion rate, on-campus-only share or recruiter-wise offer count for each course.

Median salary is the midpoint among the placed graduates reported for that cohort, not the average salary of all graduates and not a guaranteed starting salary. NIRF records higher-study selections in a separate column. This article reports that count as printed and does not subtract it from the graduating cohort or assume it is mutually exclusive with placement without a stated definition.

The calculated shares in the two tables are not the institute’s own “placement percentage.” They use all graduates in minimum stipulated time as the denominator because that is the denominator available in the NIRF rows. The report does not provide the eligible-and-registered headcount for these cohorts, nor does it explain how students who opted out are treated. Do not compare these calculations directly with a placement-cell percentage that uses eligible registrants unless the denominator definitions match. The NIRF table also reports higher-study selections separately; it does not state that this count is excluded from the graduating or placed total, so the values are shown side by side rather than added or subtracted.

The salary field is a median, not an average or a salary range. It gives no information about the spread above and below the midpoint, role mix, location, domestic versus international offers, or the share of students at each pay level. A rising median across cohorts can coexist with a falling placed share; it should not be used alone to infer a typical outcome for a particular branch.

Questions to ask before choosing a branch

Request the current placement report for the exact programme and graduating cohort. Check how many students were eligible and registered, how many were placed, whether the unit counts students or offers, and whether higher studies, entrepreneurship, off-campus jobs or students opting out are included. Ask for median and average separately, and for the salary period, domestic or international basis, and any differences in CTC components. For a design or postgraduate programme, ask for programme-specific evidence rather than applying the four-year UG or aggregate two-year PG figure.

The latest NIRF cohort ends in 2023-24, while the Placement Cell’s highlights page includes a separate 2024-25 graduating-batch offer count under a 2025-26 heading. Neither source establishes 2027-28 outcomes. Use these records as historical context, then seek the department’s latest cohort-defined report for a decision about a particular course.

For a branch decision, ask for both the programme row and the reporting method behind it. A CSE figure, for example, cannot be recovered from an institute-wide four-year UG row. Ask whether the reported salary is fixed pay or total CTC, which components are included, and whether international amounts were converted to rupees. If the institute gives a number of offers, also request the number of distinct students placed and the eligible/registered count. Those questions make it possible to distinguish hiring activity from student outcomes.

Finally, check the reporting date: an ongoing placement season is a moving snapshot, while NIRF reports a completed graduating cohort. Ask whether the latest count is final, whether it includes pre-placement offers and off-campus hires, and what the cohort year is. If those details are missing, use the figure only for what it states and keep the gap visible rather than converting it into an apparently comparable rate.