THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Recession has not affected the campus recruitment at College of Engineering, Trivandrum (CET), the premier engineering college in the State. This is evident from the statistics of the campus recruitment over the last two years.
This year, so far, 595 jobs have been offered for the final year batch of 2010. The average salary offered on the campus is Rs 3 lakh per year. About 15 students have been offered more than Rs 8.5 lakh per year by public sector companies like Indian Oil Corporation and Bharat Petroleum.
Even during the recession year of 2008-09, 475 job offers were made to around 500 students of the 2009 batch.
This year, 31 companies have visited the campus. They include IT companies like Accenture, IBM, Deloitte, Igate, TCS, Cognizant, PCS, HCL and Infosys. The major engineering companies include Ashok Leyland, Bharat Petroleum, Indian Oil Corporation, Mahindra and Mahindra, L&T, Robert Bosch, Saint Gobain and Murugappa Group.
Students of the computer science branch have got the highest percentage of campus placements. As many as 98 percent students in this branch have found placements, followed by 95.5 percent from electronics and 86 percent from electrical. The total placement this year is more than 80 percent. This shows that campus recruitment is coming back to normal after the recession.
The students have also shown their excellence in the all-India competitive examinations like GATE and CAT in 2010. More than 100 students from the college qualified in GATE and more than 14 students received very good scores in CAT.
Incidentally, CET has been ranked as the most preferred engineering college in the State with students who have qualified with the top ranks in the State entrance examinations opting for the College.
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