Placement Events and Updates
Brushing Aside Pandemic, 85% of SOA Engineering Graduates Land Excellent Job Offers
The Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), faculty of engineering and technology of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) and acknowledged as Numero Uno among institutions of higher education in Odisha, has staved off the huge worldwide impact of the Covid-19 pandemic to ensure placement of about 85 per cent of the total eligible students of the 2021 graduating batch in top-notch companies.
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2021 Campus Placement Highlights for Faculty of Engineering & Technology, SOA
The Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), Faculty of engineering and technology of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA)and acknowledged as Numero uno among institutions of higher education in Odisha, has staved off the huge worldwide impact of Covid-19 pandemic to ensure placement of about 85 per cent of the total eligible students of the 2021 graduating batch in top companies.
Around 30% of the batch has received job offers during Day Zero Dream Campus Drive of 6.3 Lakh and with average annual CTC involving reputed companies like Amazon proffering the highest CTC of 30 Lakh per annum. 55% of the batch has received offers from reputed MNCs and Day-1 and Day-2 recruiters.
More than 90 companies have participated in the campus recruitment drive in ITER this year. Besides, reputed corporates have shown their inclination towards SOA for setting up learning hubs in the campus based on the students’ performance. This would result in the students receiving enormous exposure in the industry domain in the days ahead.
Microsoft has extended career opportunity to nine students from SOA which is the highest in eastern India consecutive year while consulting major Deloitte has committed for premium category selection with a CTC of Rupees annum for a significant number of talents.
Reputed digital marketing corporate, Mediamint, has evinced interest in recruiting a sizeable number of talents from SOA this year based on their Centre of Excellence model which could lead to placement of approximately 95% of the students by end of the campus recruitment season.
Exposed to the excellent facility of training programs in coding, technology, soft skills, aptitude and intermittent counseling, students in SOA are expected to achieve their targets and recognized for their knowledge and skill at all levels.
A six-member team of ITER students, who participated in the Smart India Hackathon 2020 conducted by the Ministry of Education, emerged champions winning the problem statement RK57 (Digital Policing) winning a prize money of Rupees one lakh. Another significant achievement was the performance of the students in the TCS CodeVita Season 9 conducted by Tata Consultancy Services.
Besides, the joining conversion ratio in Day-1 companies, Cognizant, Wipro and Infosys has received huge appreciation from the said corporates indicating the best conversion ratio in eastern India.
SOA’s focus being on investigation and scrutiny, it has set up 13 research centers and 42 research laboratories to boost such activities in 22 identified thrust areas. Work of SOA’s faculty and research scholars get published regularly in reputed peer reviewed international journals. The university has 7261 Scopus Indexed publications to its credit till now with an H-Index of 65. Researchers at SOA have so far filed 299 patents while the number of novel gene sequences submitted is 515.
ITER has since emerged as a center of quality engineering education in the east for its qualified faculty members, innovative curriculum prepared in consultation with universities of repute in the world, impressive placement and industry interface.
Notable Day ‘ZERO’ Recruiters
AMAZON
DELL
DELOITTE
FINASTRA
HP INC
INFORMATICA
MAQ SOFTWARE
MICROSOFT
NATIONAL PAYMENTS CORPORATION OF INDIA
PWC
KLOUDGIN
ROBERT BOSCH
SALESFORCE
RAPYUTA ROBOTICS
TEMENOS
Notable Day ‘One’ and Day ‘Two’ Recruiters
COGNIZANT
CAPGEMINI
INFOSYS
WIPRO
HCL
HEXAWARE
L&T TECHNOLOGY
INFOGAIN
DXC TECNOLOGY
COFORGE
TVS
YASH TECHNOLOGY
GLOBAL EDGE
TUDIP TECHNOLOGIES
V-CONSTRUCT
LEGATO
ITC INFOTECH
HYUNDAI
OPTUM
TATA TECHNOLOGY
2020 Campus Placement Highlights for Faculty of Engineering & Technology, SOA
The Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER),faculty of engineering and technology of SOA Deemed to be University, has maintained its dominant position in the domain of technical education with 91 per cent placement for its 2019- 20 batch of students involving major companies.
30% of the students have received job offers from Day Zero— first day of recruitment—high paying companies with an average annual salary of Rupees 6.5 lakh and above. Altogether 104 companies visited ITER extending job offers to 2264 students this season with the highest salary offered being Rs. 31 lakh per annum.
ITER, an AICTE approved institution which was ranked 32nd in the country among engineering colleges by the MHRD NIRF in 2019, had received the highest number of offers in eastern India from major companies like Microsoft and Infosys. Similarly, Cognizant came up with the highest number of offers to ITER students in Odisha.
ITER’s engineering programmes have been accredited by NBA as also by the prestigious Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) of USA. The institute got another feather on its cap when it was placed in the 601 to 800 category of the Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2020 while its Computer Science programme also figured in the 600 plus category. SOA was ranked 24th in the country among universities by NIRF in 2019.
Key Differentiators –
Highest Number of recruitment by Microsoft from Eastern India Colleges.
30 % of students Getting placed in in Day Zero companies offering CTC of Rs. 6.5 LPA.
Highest Number of recruitment (451) by Infosys from Eastern India Colleges.
A total number of104 companies recruited form ITER through on campus programmes for the Batch 2020.
Highest number of Day one offers in Easter India colleges in term of student intake ratio.
ITER was one of the only three institutes in Odisha visited by Microsoft this season, the other two being IIT, Bhubaneswar and NIT, Rourkela, for campus recruitment.
The season which began with global brands like Microsoft and Amazon stepping into the ITER campus in June, continued with Day Zero slot hiring by companies like Microsoft and Amazon Informatica, Deloitte etc with an annual average pay package of Rs. 6.5 lakh and above.
The Day One hiring witnessed heavyweight companies like Infosys, Wipro and Cognizant making 1164 offers which is considered to be the best in eastern India in terms of student intake ratio. The recruitment continued with other major companies like Capgemini, IBM, MINDTREE, NCR Corp, IBS Software, Expansion, Sear Holding, Ramky, Infogain, Jade Global, CGI, Voltas, DXC Technology, ITC Infotech, Hexaware, Value Momentum and HP visiting the campus.
SOA, known for its excellent teaching methodology and academic excellence, has already launched an action plan to counter the challenges arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The university’s Training and Placement wing has started its placement oriented programs for the 2021 batch of students with full vigour, aiming for Day Zero session slated to begin in June next.
Notable Recruiters
ADANI GROUP
AMAZON
CAPGEMINI
COGNIZANT
DELOITTE
HYUNDAI
IBM
INFOSYS
ITC INFOTECH
MICROSOFT
MU-SIGMA
ODESSA TECH
OPTUM
RAYPUTA ROBOTICS
RELIANCE INDUSTRIES
ROBERT BOSCH
VOLTAS