New Delhi: Delhi Technological University (DTU) has started its new academic session in August, 2010. Around 18 reputed organizations have visited DTU for campus placements and offered jobs to 130 students in the month of August itself. Last year, about 10 companies had visited DTU in the month of August and had offered jobs to 68 students. This shows a clear improvement in the placement scenario this year.
In the academic session 2009-2010, 138 companies had visited DTU for campus placements and had made 638 job offers to about 461 eligible students. About 10 more companies have already registered themselves to visit DTU for recruitments in the near future. Placement at DTU is a year-long activity and will go on till May 2011.
The recruiters include leading multi national corporations like Samsung, Cisco, Microsoft and Texas Instruments, to mention some. Even Indian organizations like Mahindra, Maruti and government bodies such as IOCL, Indian Air Force and Indian Navy have visited DTU campus for placements this year.
The highest salary offered so far this year has been 10.49 lakh per annum, which has been tendered to four students by a reputed MNC, whereas the average salary is around 6 lakh per annum, which is also slightly better than the last year's average of 5.5 lakh per annum.The maximum numbers of selections have been made from the field of Computer Engineering, followed by Electronics & Communication Engineering and Information Technology.
According to P. B. Sharma, DTU Vice Chancellor, DTU's strong linkages with the industry enables them to prepare the students beyond the prescribed curriculum and as per the future requirements of the industry. This is primarily achieved through expert lectures by industry leaders and participation in activities of professional societies’ chapters at DTU (such as IEEE, IET, SAE etc.). He added that the inter-disciplinary focus of engineering and promotion of team work for design, innovation and new product development at DTU, further strengthens the competency and caliber of their students.
