About IIT Kharagpur

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 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) is a public technical and research university established by the government of India in 1951. It is the first of the IITs to be established and is recognised as an Institute of National Importance. In 2019 it was awarded the status of Institute of Eminence by the government of India.


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IIT Kharagpur is located 120 kilometres (75 mi) west of Kolkata. The campus is located five kilometres away from Kharagpur Railway Station in West Midnapore district. The layout of the present campus and the design of the buildings were carried out by a group of engineers and architects under the guidance of Werner M. Moser, a Swiss architect. The 8.5-square-kilometre (2,100-acre)campus is residence to about 22,000 inhabitants. In 2015, IIT Kharagpur had about 605 faculty members, 1,933 employees and approximately 10,010 students living on the campus.The campus has a total of 55 kilometres (34 miles) of roadways. The Institute plans to go Green by 2020.


         Placements at IIT Kharagpur


The international placements began in 2006. Two foreign companies, oil giants Schlumberger and Halliburton, visited IIT Kharagpur that year and offered annual salaries to the tune of $80,000.The reason for late international placements was that earlier the IIT, it had to abandon its policy.


The top domestic compensation in 2008 came in at ₹1.8 million (US$25,000) per annum. In the 2011 batch, Goldman Sachs recruited 10 students on a package of ₹2.6 million (US$36,000) per annum.[80]


Barclays Capital recruited 11 students with a compensation package of ₹2 million (US$28,000) per annum in December 2009. The highest salary offered till now is ₹17 million (US$240,000) per annum by social networking site Facebook in an off-shore recruitment (of which employee stock ownership plans [ESOPs] were offered valued at ₹10 million) in December 2010.The 2010 batch of BTech students saw 94% placements while the remaining preferred IIMs or entrepreneurship. Deutsche Bank recruited 9 students on a package of ₹1.5 million (US$21,000) per annum. For the 2012 batch, Facebook has made the highest offer $150,000 to four students.For the 2013 batch, three students have been offered salaries of ₹8 million (US$110,000) per year while eight others have got offers of ₹7.5 million (US$110,000) from Google, Facebook and Microsoft.For the 2014 batch, the highest package offered to a student stands at around ₹9 million (US$130,000) from Google.

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