NIT Surathkal Placement 2025: Highest Package, Average Package, Top Recruiters

I am listing down the various possibilities for mining students at NIT Surathkal-

• PSUs- Companies like Coal India provide jobs to mining engineers at a decent package of 10-12 LPA.

• Non-core- Companies like Goldman Sachs are open to students of almost all engineering branches. If you are placed in a good analytics or IT company, you can expect a package of around 10-15 LPA. You may earn an even better package if a good software brand hires you based on excellent coding skills.

• Private Core companies- In these, you can expect around 4-8 LPA. 

Be sure to maintain a decent CGPA, so that you can sit for maximum companies. You may also be placed through mass recruitment in which case, your package will be around 3.5 LPA at most. Sometimes startups offer jobs to candidates and withdraw them at a later stage. 

I would recommend you choose the branch of your interest, instead of just looking at the placement packages. Try to enquire more about the career prospects of each branch, and the research prospects as well. Make an informed decision after carefully considering all the factors.

The Metallurgy branch at NITK is quite good. It is not very stressful and the curriculum is rich. You’ll get ample time to participate in co-curricular activities. 

Now, let’s talk about the placement prospects. Metallurgy has more jobs in the government sector rather than the private sector. Core companies do visit the NIT Surathkal campus for placements each year. But to get placed in them, you’ll have to be in the top 10 students of your batch. Each Metallurgy batch consists of around 40 students. 

For core jobs, maintain a good grip on your subjects. The interviews for these profiles are based on technical rather than soft skills. You can also apply for government companies off campus. The field has little competition in comparison to other branches. With good self preparation, you can get placed in one of the IT companies that visit NITK for placements, and are open to all the branches. 

NIT Surathkal is a great college. It will offer you plenty of exposure and opportunities.

Therefore, I would recommend you to join Metallurgy at NITK.

There are no specific placements for CSE as it's just one of the many branches of engineering. Most companies like Oracle and Fidelity allow students of all branches to sit for placements while some big companies like Microsoft only allow B.Tech CSE ECE EEE, and M.Tech CSE students who have qualified for the CGPA cutoff 7. Every company has its own CGPA criteria and to stay on the safe side and be eligible for the maximum companies try to score 7+. So if you fulfill the criteria, you can apply for any company irrespective of the branch you are from. For shortlisting, CS companies conduct online coding tests after which you are selected for the interview. So no matter which branch you belong to, you have to be proficient in coding. 

In short, if you want to get selected for CSE placement,

• Maintain a CGPA of more than 8, every semester
• Actively participate in competitive programming right from the first year.
• Learn and practice from sites like Geeksforgeeks, and Techdelight.
• Be proficient in topics like C++, Data structures, and Algorithms to bag offers in big companies.
• Practice from coding Platforms like CodeChef, and Leetcode.

Basically, the more you become proficient in Competitive Programming, the better offers you will get!

Civil is about learning and getting skills rather than getting placed with good packages. India is in desperate need of qualified civil engineers. Not every Civil Engineering graduate is skilled enough and yet is employed as an engineer leading to failure of structure and accidents. So your primary goal is to be knowledgeable and skilled rather than running after placements. There is also a huge scope of research outside India. Here are the placement statistics of the Civil Engineering branch of NIT Surathkal

Ultimately, bear in mind that you won’t be earning much initially as a civil engineer but with the passage of time you will earn a lot in terms of money and respect both. 

The NIT Surathkal placement figures for 2023 are not available as of yet. 

As for the 2022 placement season, 450 companies visited the campus in total. Out of 1608 eligible students, 1385 were successfully placed. The highest salary offered was INR 45 LPA, the average package stood at INR 13.12 LPA, and the median package stood at INR 10.5 LPA. The CSE department received the highest package from Microsoft. 91% students were placed from UG and 78% were placed from PG during the placements.

Top recruiters for the placement season 2022 were- Microsoft, DE Shaw, Uber, BEL, Amazon, Arcesium, Oracle, GAIL, Google India, BPCL, IOCL and BFML. Tech giants like Google, Samsung and Flipkart, and top investment banks like JP Morgan and Barclays visit the NIT Surathkal campus even before the start of its placement season. 

Thus, the placements for 2022 were quite impressive at NIT Surathkal.