Placements

What the outcome figures measure

KIIT’s public placement material combines several different kinds of information: formal NIRF programme-group outcomes, campus recruitment highlights, and a post-graduation employment survey. Those measures answer different questions. The NIRF submission reports graduating cohorts, numbers placed, higher-study counts and median salaries for broad programme-duration groups. Campus pages describe offers generated by a recruitment programme and school-level package highlights. Offers are not students placed, and a school-level highest package is not a typical outcome. Read the cohort, denominator and reporting year before comparing figures.

The official NIRF 2025 Engineering submission is for institute IR-E-U-0356 and reports UG four-year and PG two-year groups. Its placement years end in 2023-24, so the label “NIRF 2025” is the submission edition, not the graduating batch year. The source reports these values:

The NIRF table labels the salary as the median salary of placed graduates, in rupees. It does not break the UG four-year group into CSE, ECE, civil or another branch, and the PG two-year figures are in an Engineering submission, not a KSOM MBA table. They should not be used as branch-level or MBA outcomes. Higher-study counts are shown separately; do not add them to placed students or assume they exhaust the non-placed group.

For context, dividing placed students by graduates in the minimum stipulated time gives about 46.2%, 72.8% and 34.8% for the three UG four-year cohorts, and 92.8%, 92.1% and 95.8% for the PG two-year cohorts. These are calculations from the reported counts, not separately published KIIT placement rates. The denominator is the graduating group shown in the NIRF form, not all students admitted, all students eligible for placement or all students who sought a job. Across the three UG cohorts, placed counts are 1,751, 2,636 and 1,236, while medians are ₹4,50,000, ₹7,50,000 and ₹7,40,000 per year. These group-level figures do not establish a branch-level trend or predict what a current 2027-28 student will experience.

Campus recruitment highlights are a different series

KIIT’s own “Campus Placement 2025 Graduating Batch” page says that the combined campus programme across KSOT, KSOM, KSRM, KSBT and KSOL covered around 5,000 eligible students, had over 757 companies visit and generated approximately 4,621 offers, with around 92.50% overall conversion. The page separately reports 3,800-plus KSOT offers by 451 companies, an average CTC of ₹8.50 lakh per annum and a highest CTC of ₹51 lakh per annum. For KSOM it reports around 401 MBA offers, an average of ₹7.25 lakh per annum and a highest CTC of ₹20 lakh per annum. Those school-specific values are the institution’s reported highlights; the page does not provide a full school-wise eligible-student denominator alongside each figure.

There is a material difference in the university’s own source summaries for the same named 2025 graduating batch. The 2026-27 prospectus instead says overall conversion was 94% and approximately 5,585 offers were generated for 5,000-plus eligible students. It reports a 9.00 lakh average CTC for KSOM MBA and BBA students, while the separate placement page gives KSOM an average of ₹7.25 lakh for MBA graduates. The accessible pages do not explain whether the figures reflect different cut-off dates, definitions, school coverage or revisions. We therefore do not select one as a settled total or average. When evaluating a particular programme, ask the school for the final batch report and denominator rather than treating the two summaries as interchangeable.

A survey is not the same as a placement count

KIIT’s 2025 employment-rate page describes a review conducted six months after graduation for students from different undergraduate and graduate programmes. It says progression was reviewed for 100% of graduates and reports 91.1% going for jobs and 5.8% for higher studies. The institution says the review used alumni virtual meets, Training and Placement Cell interactions, industry meets, social-media groups and a general online survey conducted by the KIIT Alumni Association. This is a distinct survey-based progression measure, not the NIRF “students placed” table or the campus offers total. The page does not show respondent counts or a course-by-course breakdown in its summary, and the stated job and study percentages do not add to 100%. Treat it as an institutional post-graduation survey, not a guaranteed employment rate for an incoming cohort.

How to use the evidence as an applicant

If you are comparing engineering programmes, start with the NIRF four-year cohort table for the annual median and placed count, then ask KIIT’s School of Technology for branch-specific numbers, the number of students eligible and seeking placement, and the number with one or more offers. For management, use KSOM’s MBA report separately; the Engineering submission’s PG two-year row is not an MBA proxy. For law, rural management, biotechnology, health or other courses, request the report for that school and the relevant graduating batch. A campus-level headline can establish that recruitment activity occurred, but without a comparable programme denominator it should not settle a return-on-fees decision.

Ask whether published salaries are median, average or highest; whether they are domestic or international; whether they refer to annual CTC or fixed pay; which graduating cohort they cover; and whether multiple offers are counted once or more than once. Request the number of graduates, eligible students, students who registered for placement, placed students and students choosing higher studies. These denominators explain why “offers generated,” “students placed,” and “placement conversion” should not be used as synonyms.

The latest course-duration NIRF data used here is the institute’s NIRF 2025 Engineering submission, covering graduating years through 2023-24. The campus page and 2026-27 prospectus report a separate 2025 graduating-batch recruitment series with conflicting aggregate totals. Neither series is a branch forecast, and neither confirms a future 2027-28 result. Use them as dated context, then seek the exact course and batch report before making an enrolment decision.