IIT Madras records increase in pre-placements offers

a robust summer internship process, which the institute conducted completely in online mode, helped connect the industry and students and drove up the pre-placement offers (ppos). as many as 227 ppos (as on 5th november 2021) have been made to iit madras students during the 2021-22 academic year as against 186 offers during the entire 2020-21 academic year. the ppos will continue to be made till the commencement of phase i of campus placements, which is scheduled for 1st december 2021.a major factor behind this performance in ppos is the strong internship programme of the institute. this process facilitates students to intern in companies and leads to ppos. the constant increase in ppos is the result of excellent performance of students during their internships. pre-placement offers at iit madras: recent yearsyear 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22ppos 73 114 135 170 186 227*(*as on 5th nov 2021)in the ongoing academic year, the core engineering and r&d sectors accounted for most of the ppos till date. the major recruiters are qualcomm, microsoft, honeywell, texas instruments and goldman sachs.the top five companies that made highest number of ppos include2021-22 no. of pposqualcomm 18microsoft 14honeywell 13texas instruments 12goldman sachs 10