NIT Rourkela - National Institute of Technology Answered Questions

To be eligible to get admission to MBA course at NIT Rourkela, students are required to fulfil minimum eligibility criteria for the course. Candidates with a bachelor’s degree of three-year duration from a recognised institute/ university with a minimum of 50% aggregate or equivalent CGPA (45% for SC/ ST/ PwD candidates) are eligible to apply for the course. The students appearing for the final year of their bachelor's degree/ equivalent qualification or awaiting results are also eligible to apply.

It provides great career opportunities to students. In the 2022 placements, as per media reports, 1,274 offers were made. The highest and average package offered stood at INR 46.08 LPA and INR 19.04 LPA, respectively. Moreover, NIRF also ranked NIT Rourkela 15 under the Engineering category in the 2022 rankings. Thus, it is a good college for M.Tech aspirants.

According to unofficial sources, a large share of NIT Rourkela alumni is placed in the Engineering sector, with a 27% share. The other top sectors that involve the majority of alumni are Education and Operations with 12% and 11% shares, respectively. See the below pie chart illustrating the sector-wise distribution of alumni:NOTE: The ‘Others’ category illustrates the combined data of diverse domains such as Consulting, Program and Project Management, Sales, Arts and Design, Media and Communication, Product Management, Finance, Marketing, HR sectors

The list below showcases NIT Rourkela placements 2023 statistics as compared to other NITs:NIT NameHighest Package (2023)Average Package (2023)NIT RourkelaINR 83.60 LPAINR 13.89 LPANIT CalicutINR 50 LPAINR 13.77 LPANIT WarangalINR 88 LPAINR 17.29 LPAVNIT NagpurNAINR 10.17 LPA

The NIT Rourkela CSE average package offered during the 2024 placement drive was INR 18.31 LPA. The NIT Rourkela CSE average package offered between 2023 and 2024 is tabulated below: ParticularsPlacement Statistics (2023)Placement Statistics (2024)NIT Rourkela CSE average packageINR 24.07 LPAINR 18.31 LPANote: The average package of 2024 is sourced from the media reports. It may vary once the final placement report 2024 is out.

The NIT Rourkela highest package offered during NIT Rourkela placement drive in 2023 stood at INR 83.60 LPA. The course-wise NIT Rourkela highest packages offered in 2023 placements are presented below:ParticularsPlacement Statistics (2023)Highest package (overall)INR 83.60 LPAHighest package (BTech)INR 83.60 LPAHighest package (BArch)INR 6 LPAHighest package (Integrated Msc)INR 16 LPAHighest package (BTech and M.Tech Dual Degree)INR 20 LPAHighest package (MTech)INR 52.89 LPAHighest package (MBA)INR 12 LPAHighest package (MA)INR 8.10 LPAHighest package (MSc)INR 14.45 LPAHighest package (PhD)INR 18 LPAThe following table showcases the overall NIT Rourkela highest package offered between 2021 and 2023:ParticularsPlacement Statistics (2021)Placement Statistics (2022)Placement Statistics (2023)Highest PackageINR 45 LPAINR 48.84 LPAINR 83.60 LPA

As per the latest report, the participating recruiters offered over 1,300 placement offers to the students of the batch 2024. However, in 2023, the participating recruiters presented 1,326 job offers to the students in various sectors. The total number of offers provided during NIT Rourkela placements between 2022 and 2024 are tabulated below:ParticularsPlacement Statistics (2022)Placement Statistics (2023)Placement Statistics (2023)Total offers1,3161,3261,300+Note: The total offers provided in the year 2024 are sourced from the media reports. These may vary once the final placement report 2024 is out.

NIT (National Institute of Technology), Rourkela, formerly known as Regional Engineering college, Rourkela is a completely government funded institute of higher education for engineering, Science and technology. The Central Government has recognised the institute as one of the premier institutions, elevating it to a deemed university and developing it as a centre of excellence. NIT has bagged some of the good NIRF rankings such as: 16th in NIRF Engineering, 8th in NIRF Architecture, 29th in NIRF Research and 37th in NIRF overall 2023. Besides this, the college has also managed to score rankings in many of the national and international ranking lists.

 The salary package offered to sector-wise students during NIT Rourkela placements is given below:BRANCHESAVERAGE PACKAGEComputer Science EngineeringINR 21.87 LPAElectrical EngineeringINR 14.55 LPAElectronic and Instrumentation EngineeringINR 18.12 LPAElectronics and Communication EngineeringINR 17.97 LPA