Placement analysis of IIT Kanpur

We all consider IIT Kanpur as a dream college for any engineering aspirants in india . A student when decides to prepare for competitive examination of enginnering , he often see his destination as IIT knapur in his dream for future . But , is this great college is doing well in terms of placement too? , probably we can analyse it now . As it was very difficult to get the authorised data of placement record of IIT Kanpur , i won't be able to present all the required essence of placement of IIT Kanpur . I am presenting here the placement data of 2006-07 in IIT Kanpur.


As placement session is held in second semester for all the degrees in IIT Kanpur. Before discussing about the details of the placement . I will present here some salient features about IIT kanpur in the fiels of acadmics.

•  There are five letter grades which have numerical equivalents on 10 point scale.
  

• In addition, there are three letter grades, viz., I, S and X, which stand for Incomplete, Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory, respectively.
  

• Further, for courses with zero weightage only Pass (P) / Fail (F) grades are awarded.
  

• Cumulative Performance Index (CPI): The overall academic performance of a student in all the courses registered up to last
  
• Semester I: From the fourth week of July to the last week of
  November
  Semester II : From the last week of December to the last week of
  April
  Summer Term: From the middle of May to the middle of July
  Each academic semester of four months comprises of two Mid
  semester examinations, and one end semester exam along with
  regular quizzes, presentations, projects, assignments, term paper
  and term projects.

For Practical knowledge and hands on experience there are full lab
courses also.

A student is required to complete successfully all the courses of the
curriculum prescribed for programme and obtain a minimum CPI
as under:

B.Tech.: 5.0
B.Tech.-M.Tech. (Dual degree): 6.5
M.Sc.(Integrated): 5.0
M.Sc. (2 year): 6.0
M.Sc.-Ph.D.(Dual degree): 6.0

Since I was not able to get the information about the average package of IIT kanpur , I will be presenting here only the list of recruiters and percentage of placement according to different no. of branches in the campus.

List of Recruitors in placement year 2006-07 in IIT kanpur :-


Demographic related to the distribution of student in academic year 2006-07 for the placement :-


As there is no enough data on the packages by different companies and the average pay in the campus for the undergraduate placement , it is not possible to compare it's placement with any other college in the list . So , In this srticle I am not talking about it's placement for the session 2007-07 , but i will surely do when i will get the official data . I request all the enthu IIT- K ians to contribute to their college by sending me the actual data on my gmail id shanky19892006@gmail.com.