Job prospects of YMCA students bright despite pandemic
225 firms participate in placement drive in 2020-21; Rs 30 lakh highest package offered
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, April 5
The Covid-19 outbreak has not affected the job prospects of students of JC Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad. Despite the pandemic, the university has recorded the highest salary package and participation of companies for placement drive as it received participation from 225 companies during 2020-21 and the highest package offered was of Rs 29.92 lakh per annum.
In the ongoing campus placement drive, 11 students have been selected by Samsung R&D Delhi, six by Amazon, four by Airtel, two each by Adobe System and BNY Mellon and one each by Media.net, Squad Stack and Palo Alto, in the salary packages from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 29.92 lakh per annum. The highest package of Rs 29.92 lakh was offered by Media.Net Software Services.
Vice-Chancellor Prof Dinesh Kumar said despite the pandemic, the university students proved themselves in all spheres with great placement records during this session. Dean of placement, alumni and corporate affairs, Dr Vikram Singh said besides IT and computers, they were getting good response from companies hiring in the core sectors, which include mechanical and electrical engineering too. Amazon has consecutively offered over Rs 28 lakh per annum salary package while Samsung R&D generally offered between Rs 10 to 14 lakh to the students.
As many as 410 students who are going to pass out in June 2021, have already got placement. Also, 402 students got placements in 2019-20. The average package offered in 2019-20 was Rs 3.78 lakh per annum, which has increased to Rs 4 lakh per annum this year.
