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