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Unlike last year, top-tier engineering colleges can expect to see a lot more companies (many of them startups) coming to campus.

Placement season has begun and all eyes are on the offers that top engineering college students are receiving. So far this year, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) have been a standout. In the first week, students saw companies offering higher packages, with some even going above Rs 1 crore. This is an encouraging sign after last year’s disappointing offers, with packages going as low as Rs 4 lakh per year at IIT Bombay.
In fact, on the very first day of placements, the students of IIT Kharagpur received 750 offers (including pre-placement offers) and the highest package offered touched …

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