IIT Kanpur BTech Placement Trends: Salaries, Top Recruiters & Evolving Domains
The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur has long been synonymous with academic excellence and engineering innovation. In its most recent BTech placement cycle, the institute sustained its remarkable performance, especially in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) discipline, where the median salary crossed the ₹40 lakh-per-annum mark and top offers soared well above ₹1 crore.
Beyond CSE, the placement landscape broadened, with growing demand in analytics, finance, energy and manufacturing domains, reflecting the institution’s evolving interface with industry.
The CSE (Computer Science & Engineering) department continues to lead in compensation: For 2022-23, median in CSE ~ ₹32-33 lakh/year and top offers (domestic + international) exceeded ~ ₹1 crore.
For 2023-24, median rose to ~ ₹37.8 lakh for CSE.
For 2024-25 (preliminary data) CSE median stands around ~ ₹40-42 lakh/year.
Non-CSE branches: Electrical Engineering: 2022-23 median ~ ₹20.2 lakh, 2023-24 ~ ₹22.5 lakh, 2024-25 ~ ₹24.0 lakh.
Mechanical Engineering: 2022-23 ~ ₹14.6 lakh, 2023-24 ~ ₹15.2 lakh, 2024-25 ~ ₹15.8 lakh.
Civil Engineering: 2022-23 ~ ₹11.4 lakh, 2023-24 ~ ₹13.2 lakh, 2024-25 ~ ₹14.5 lakh.
Chemical Engineering & Aerospace also show similar trends of gradual increase.
Sectoral trends: IT/software dominate placements (~35-40% of total offers).
Analytics and finance are growing, especially for Electrical, Maths and CSE students (with firms like Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan).
Strong participation of core engineering companies (automotive, energy, manufacturing) and newer fields (EV, robotics, clean-tech).
Internship & PPO trends: The number of companies offering internships has increased (over 160 firms in 2023-24).
Median stipends: CSE ~ ₹1.2 lakh/month; Electrical ~ ₹70,000/month; Mechanical/Civil ~ ₹40,000-60,000/month.
PPOs (Pre-Placement Offers) are rising: >300 PPOs in 2023-24 vs ~230 in 2022-23.
Conclusion:
If you’re considering one of the top engineering branches (especially CSE) at IIT Kanpur, the placement data is very strong and improving year-on-year.
For non-CSE branches, while the average/median packages are lower than CSE, they are trending upward steadily.
Diversification into newer areas (analytics, EV, robotics) means that branch matters, but so does your skill-set, internships, and domain of interest.
Strong internships and PPOs help yield better full‐time offers, so the internship period is key.: Key placement highlights from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur)’s BTech programme
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