IIST Trivandrum Reviews on Placements, Faculty & Facilities ,Thiruvananthapuram

Placements: The recruitment drive is not that strong, and mostly off-campus students get placed. The highest package offered was 10 lakhs per annum, and the lowest was 3 lakhs. However, there are good internship opportunities related to projects that students get, and generally research-related roles are offered.

Placements: My senior batch had a bond with ISRO, that every student above a CGPA of 6.5 will get placed. So, 90% of them got placed in ISRO centres. But from 2013 batch (my batch) onwards, they proposed a new bond where a student has to have a CGPA above 7.5 and conditioned to vacancies offered by ISRO, students will be placed. My course name is physical sciences (which was not listed above, so I had to choose anything), and 2013 batch is the last one with that course. There are 34 students in my batch an...